Two problems related to brakes failed have been reported for the 2016 Tesla Model S. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
My parking brake actuator has failed. Tesla has refused to replace it under the recall. They claim that my car was built one month after the recall ended, and is not impacted. However when asked for the different part#'s they did not provide how they determined my parking brake was not affected. I tried to work with their management and they continue to decline replacement. My car was built in 2016 November. It is highly unlikely that a cut in at the factory occurred that quickly that they didn't use the defective parts during this time.
On 1/18/20, I was travelling in my 2016 Tesla Model S p100d eastward on anderson hill road toward the intersection with purchase street. The stop light was red. I was driving 1mi under the speed limit of 35mph. The outside temperature was around freezing, and a wet snow had begun 5-10min earlier, with minimal accumulation. I know exactly how fast I was going because I had cruise control on. I was not on autopilot. Just cruise control. When the intersection and stop light came into view, I tapped the break to disengage the cruise control, and then depressed the break to slow the car. Nothing happened. The breaks would not engage. And neither did the regenerative breaking. I do not feel that I was skidding or sliding. It simply felt as if the car had no idea I wanted to brake. It was very very strange. In those few seconds it became clear to me there was a good chance I would be dead shortly. As it happens, I was struck broadside by a large suburban travelling northbound on purchase street perhaps 25 miles an hour. Both he and I seem to have emerged relatively unscathed (physically, anyway) thank god. But I want to know what happened to my car. Can you please contact Tesla and demand all the information from the cars computers - and their computers at hq - so we can find out??? what happened was extremely dangerous, and could have killed both me nd others. To summarize: brake failure, both manual and degenerative, in 2016 Tesla Model S caused massive collision with both cars totalled.
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