2022 Tesla Model Y
Complaints about this year name phantom braking far more often than the model's other years — 17% of them, about 3× the usual rate of 5.4%.
Generation 1 of the Tesla Model Y, which began in 2020. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
| Complaints filed | 1,688 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 320 |
| Involving a crash | 170 |
| Involving a fire | 16 |
| Recalls | 20 |
| EPA combined | 123 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- ended — 6% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: ended, rear ended.
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.
Also unusual this year
- ended — 6% of complaints, 3× usual
What owners wrote
When the ADS is engaged you can not reliably drive the vehicle due to phantom braking events which puts us at risk of being rear ended at highway speeds. Has occurred on numerous dates.
Phantom braking occurs very frequently and the dealerships tell me there’s nothing that they can do. We almost got rear ended on a 65 mph highway because of one instance but it happens on a daily basis if using cruise control.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V037000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 21V912000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 22V045000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 22V050000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 22V063000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 22V235000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 22V296000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 22V702000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 20. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Tesla Model Y 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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