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2017 Tesla Model 3

This year drew 26 complaints, which is too few to read anything into. A share of a small number moves too much: one owner writing about the same fault twice would swing it further than a real pattern does. So nothing is claimed about this year either way. The 16 recalls below are on file regardless, and are not affected by how many people filed complaints.

First year of a new generation. The Tesla Model 3 was redesigned for 2017. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

Recalls for this year

• 22V037000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 22V045000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 21V00D000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 21V846000 FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE Fixed free of charge.
• 22V063000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 22V169000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
• 22V235000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 22V702000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.

Showing 8 of 16. The rest are on NHTSA's site.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Tesla Model 3 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.

This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.

Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.

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