2025 Tesla Model Y
This year drew an ordinary 92 complaints for a Tesla Model Y — the model's median is 1,170. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.7% of them mention reverse, against 2.4% 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.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 92 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 1,170 |
| Involving a crash | 29 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 121 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- reverse — 8.7% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the model's other years (3.6×).
- given — 8.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.2% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: given, beyond.
- unexpectedly — 7.6% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the model's other years (3×).
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
On or about May 23 or 24, 2025, while using FSD to park the vehicle, I engaged reverse mode. The vehicle was fully under FSD control during this maneuver. Unexpectedly, the car reversed into a fixed pole, impacting the rear of the vehicle and causing a noticea…
Vehicle has complete Full Self-Driving (Supervised) capabilities. Vehicle was reverse parking on its own but the right side crashed into a wall. Vehicle did not stop reverse upon collision. Driver took over immediately to avoid further crash fatality.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V935000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 25V002000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 26V315000 EQUIPMENT 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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