Table 1 shows one common other fuel system related problems of the 2023 Tesla Model Y.
| Problem Category | Number of Problems |
|---|---|
| Other Fuel System problems |
While driving, the system prompt electrical system failure. Pull to the road side. Within 20 or so seconds, the car lost power. About 10 minutes or so later, the whole car (emergency light, door, trunk etc lost power too. Consider the car lost driving power in seconds, then lost emergency light can be highly dangerous to all parties. Before the failure, the car shows "front motor is disabled, power is reduced, ok to drive" this ok to drive turns out not ok to drive, misleading. Now the car is fixed (yet to pickup), reason front drive unit and pyro fuse were replaced (new car, but with refurnished part).
I hit a rock at approximately 35 mph that got projected under my car and caused a bad leak in the battery coolant system. Received a low coolant warning about one minute after the incident. The alert indicated that the car was safe to drive but to schedule service ASAP. Tesla instructed me to drive to the local SC that is 15 min away when though enough coolant had leaked to render the user display black. I had no turn signals, no speedometer, nothing except the ability to move the car. Tesla alerted me the next day that the damaged occurred at a poorly protected point where the coolant lines connect to the hv battery and that the battery with less than 20k miles needs to be replaced. As a result, they discharged the energy from the battery to avoid a “thermal event”. In doing some research, I discovered a number of documented cases of similar failure due to the fact that a plastic part is used to protect this critical area and is known to break and not offer ample protection to the coolant lines and front drive system. I’m very concerned that had this occurred on the highway and I continued to drive that a “thermal event” would occur and put me in grave danger of a vehicle fire. This area is too critical for proper vehicle operation and safety around high voltage components to use plastic parts to protect them. I also discovered that earlier model model 3s used a heavy cloth for this role before changing to the plastic version.
My husband and I were driving from cincinnati ohio to harrisburg, PA on Monday, oct 16, 2023 on the highway (turnpike). At least four times the car tried to kill us by starting to slam to a stop on the highway when using cruise control. Fortunately each time there were no cars immediately behind us or we would have had a major accident. We stopped and called Tesla in mechanicsburg who consulted with someone on another line. We had both hands on the steering wheel and were doing everything correctly. They concluded that it was either the car sensing we were driving near mountains, or around curves. It happened once with a mild curve but the other times the road was straight. There was a small drizzle of rain (they said it could be rain) or they also said it could be sun. At this point I said "this is ridiculous as how can we drive this car to florida (in the sun) if this might happen. Their conclusion: take it off cruise control. We did and continued home but it is ridiculous that we cannot use the cruise control for fear of it happening again! and they said risks include mountains, rain, sun and curves in road. These conditions are the conditions almost everyday for most people in pennsylvania! if there had been a truck behind us or a car, we would be dead.
The Tesla Model Y autoaccelerated even with me pressing the brakes. The car was on regenerative breaking and instead of stopping it accelerated lunging into the walkway and almost killing a person. The car hit another car, 2 bike racks and a tree as well as concrete slabs beofr coming to a stop. There have been reports of unintended auto acceleration from Tesla cars. The car components has not been inspected by police, manufacturer or insurance representatives. There were warninngs, especially with the car reporting that sensors were not properly calibrated. I reported this to Tesla agents and they told me not to worry about it. I am injured with a left wrist sprain as well as neck and back injuries. I need Tesla to take ownership and pay dearly!.
Steering wheel locked up one morning and immediately reported it to Tesla and they corrected it, but it seems like they just did a flush of the system. Not sure if there is still some fundamental flow. Charging port also kept on not responding either which basically makes the vehicle unable to move if it can't be charged.
The new Model Y froze in the middle of an interstate highway indicating it was shutting itself down and not driveable. It took only 30seconds from 60 miles per hour to completely inoperable and stopped itself in traffic. Currently the mileage of this car is only 12 miles and I drove only 7 miles about 20 minutes after the we picked up the car. Tesla service told me it was a rear motor inverter issue. There are many incidents of similar occurrences people report online. Luckily we were saved by some quick thinking driver who called 911, while we were anxiously trying to contact Tesla service. The police parked his cruiser to shield us from the fast moving traffic.
This is the second instance of this issue happening, first at 1800 miles odo, and second at 4690. Both instances, when driving, the vehicle suddenly and violently shuddered to a stop. The first instance happened as I pulled out from a stop sign to take an unprotected left onto a street. In the middle of the intersection, the car shuddered to a stop violently and a lot of warnings and alerts came up on screen. Cars moving both directions had to suddenly stop to not hit my car dead in the intersection. The gear stalk inputs to put the car in drive or reverse and allow function of the vehicle did not work. I pushed the park button on the right stalk and then moved it into drive, which it allowed. I was then able to limp the car out of the intersection (with power vastly reduced and speed reduced) and await a tow. The second instance I had pulled into a parking lot at around the same speed (~15 mph) in which the car again shuddered violently to a stop with no ability to override. Traffic behind me had to brake as to not hit my vehicle which stopped in the middle of the lot. Again the car was inoperable until this time locking and unlocking the car from outside of it and reentering to limp it to a parking spot for tow. Safety of myself and others were put severely at risk suddenly and without warning from the car stopping itself. If this were to happen in other, less fortunate scenarios, risk to human lives is great. Problem has been confirmed by Tesla service center, but not reproduced while in their possession. The vehicle was inspected by Tesla service after the first incident and was explained to have found no faults with any hardware, but found a corrupt line of code in the firmware (no update or firmware change was noted to be available). Warning messages and alerts populated at time of incident and no sooner (no warning is given prior to issue). Alerts include power reduced, rear motor disabled, vehicle shutting down, automatic emergency braking disabled and more.