Model years Tesla Model X P100D
2017 Tesla Model X P100D
This year drew an ordinary 237 complaints for a Tesla Model X P100D — the model's median is 141. What they were about is the unusual part: 8% of them mention longer, against 2.8% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 237 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 141 |
| Involving a crash | 23 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 86 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- longer — 8% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: longer, results, corrected.
- upgrade — 8% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: upgrade, additionally, out tesla.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
REAR BACKUP CAMERA NO LONGER USABLE AT NIGHT SINCE TESLA UPGRADED THE SOFTWARE/MCU2 COMPUTER SYSTEM.
The steering as getting harder and harder to turn. I checked the steering rack and it was clean but the U joint had completely rusted. I lubricated it and the steering improved. After around a year, it happened again and I repeated it. They have an upgraded re…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Tesla Model X P100D 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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