2024 Tesla Model Y
This year drew an ordinary 320 complaints for a Tesla Model Y — the model's median is 1,170. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.2% of them mention additionally, against 1.4% across the model's other years.
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 | 320 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 1,170 |
| Involving a crash | 74 |
| Involving a fire | 5 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| EPA combined | 119 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- additionally — 7.2% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the model's other years (5.3×).
- view — 6.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: view, mirror.
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
The car lost all ADAS functions, and GPS on the onboard navigation system. In addition. it can't use regular cruise control and it does not have rear view mirror blind spot warning capability any more. This all happened when the car attempted to install the "h…
After latest Tesla software upgrade, all cameras and GPS stops working. All automatic functionalities of the car stops working without cameras, and it is really unsafe to drive, for example back up the car since the physical rear view mirror is very small, and…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V051000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 24V554000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 24V886000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 24V935000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 25V002000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
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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