2017 TESLA MODEL X Complaints

VEHICLE WAS SUMMON TO ENTER GARAGE AND HIT THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE GARAGE DOOR FRAME CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE HOUSE, SIDE MIRROR, AND SHATTER THE FRONT QUARTER PASSENGER WINDOW. THE SUMMONS FEATURE DOES NOT YET WORK!

THE 17-INCH TOUCHSCREEN PERIODICALLY GOES BLANK OR DOES NOT COME ON WHEN CAR IS STARTED. THIS OCCURS RANDOMLY WHILE CAR IS STATIONARY OR IN MOTION.

TOUCH SCREEN EXTREMELY SLUGGISH, SOMETIMES UNRESPONSIVE DURING DRIVING TRIP, LOSING MANY ACTIVE SAFETY FEATURES SUCH AS FORWARD COLLISION WARNING, SIDE COLLISION WARNING, REAR VIEW CAMERA, ACTIVE NAVIGATION LEADING TO DISTRACTIONS FROM TRYING TO USE ALTERNATIVE HAND PHONE NAVIGATION. LOST SPEEDOMETER FUNCTION WHILE DRIVING AS SHOWN ON IMAGE BELOW MAKING DRIVING UNSAFE. IMAGE BELOW SHOWED DRIVING ON A CITY STREET WHILE BOTH CONTROL SCREENS CENTER AND DRIVER SIDE BECAME FROZEN LEADING TO PANICKING DISTRACTIONS. CAR OFTEN SLOW TO BOOT UP OR WAKE UP, TAKING SEVERAL MINUTES, IN ORDER TO BE DRIVABLE. THIS SITUATION MAY BECOME UNSAFE IN CASE OF REAL EMERGENCY REQUIRING TO DRIVE THE VEHICLE IMMEDIATELY

THE LARGE SCREEN IN MY TESLA OCCASIONALLY GOES COMPLETELY BLACK AND STOPS FUNCTIONING. WHEN THIS HAPPENS MY REAR VIEW/ BACK UP CAMERA GOES BLACK, MY HEATING AND AIR CONDTITIONING SHUTS OFF, MY RADIO AND BLUE TOOTH SHUTS OFF. I CAN STILL DRIVE THE CAR BUT IS VERY LIMITED. THIS CAN LAST FOR 5 MINUTES OR UP TO 15 MINUTES. I CANNOT PREDICT WHEN THIS WILL HAPPEN. SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS MULTIPLE TIMES DURING THE SAME DAYS, OTHER TIMES A WEEK WILL GO BY WITHOUT IT HAPPENING. TESLA CONTACTED ME ABOUT THIS AND OFFERED A FIX: THEY WOULD UNDER WARRANTY INSTALL A NEW EMMC CHIP AND THAT THIS WOULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM. I DID THIS, TESLA HAD MY CAR FOR A WEEK AND THEY PERFORMED THE FIX. IT DID NOT WORK AND MY SCREEN CONTINUES TO MALFUNCTION, IT IS VERY UNSETTLING. THIS CAN, AND HAS HAPPENED MULTIPLE TIMES WHEN I AM: DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY, DRIVING THROUGH MY NEIGHBORHOOD, DRIVING WITH MY KIDS IN THE CAR, AND WHEN I FIRST START THE CAR UP IN THE MORNING. I HAVE ATTACHED 2 PHOTOS I TOOK WHEN THIS HAPPENED 2 SEPARATE TIMES IN THE LAST 24 HOURS. BOTH TIMES I WAS DRIVING WHEN IT OCCURRED . THIS IS AFTER I HAVE HAD THE REPAIR THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO FIX THIS PROBLEM.

ON MULTIPLE OCCASSIONS (SOMETIMES WHILE STATIONARY AND SOMETIMES WHILE MOVING), THE MEDIA CONTROL UNIT (MCU) HAS BECOME INOPERABLE. IF IT OCCURS PRIOR TO A TRIP, THIS MEANT THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT DRIVE FOR THE SEVERAL MINUTES IT TAKES TO PERFORM A RE-BOOT. WHEN IT OCCURRED WHILE DRIVING, IT MEANT THAT THE FOLLOWING SYSTEMS COULD NOT BE USED AND/OR ADJUSTED: THE REAR VIEW CAMERA, THE RADIO VOLUME, THE TEMPERATURE CONTROL, THE NAVIGATION SYSTEM, AND POSSIBLY OTHERS. I HAVE PROVIDED TESLA WITH TIME STAMPS OF ALMOST ALL FAILURE EVENTS AND TAKEN THE VEHICLE TO THEIR SERVICE CENTERS 3 DIFFERENT TIMES. ALTHOUGH AN ASPECT OF THIS MCU (THE "EMMC") IS KNOWN TO BE DEFECTIVE AND THE VEHICLE IS UNDER WARRANTY, TESLA HAS REPEATEDLY REFUSED TO REPLACE THE MCU. INSTEAD THEY HAVE, ON THE LATEST SERVICE APPOINTMENT, INDICATED THERE ARE "FPGA ERRORS" AND THERE IS A "FIRMWARE BUG" THAT IS CAUSING THE PROBLEM AND THAT THIS FIRMWARE BUG WILL BE ADDRESSED WITH A PENDING FIRMWARE UPDATE. IN THE MEANTIME, THEY SUGGEST PERFORMING A "RE-BOOT" OF THE SYSTEM EVERY TIME IT FAILS. I AM WORRIED THAT THIS MAY CAUSE FOR AN UNSAFE DRIVING SITUATION AND HOPE THAT THE NHTSA WILL COMPEL TESLA TO RECALL VEHICLES FROM THIS ERA (FROM WHICH THE MCUS ARE KNOWN TO BE DEFECTIVE).

I TOOK POSSESSION OF A USED TESLA 2017 MODEL X DIRECTLY FROM TESLA USED SALES ON SATURDAY 11/28. WITHIN 2 DAYS (BY MON 11/30), THE CENTRAL CONSOLE/COMPUTER WENT COMPLETELY BLACK AND THE CAR LOST ALL ABILITY TO SELF-DRIVE, USE MEDIA, CLIMATE CONTROL, LIGHTING, AND, FROM A MOST CONCERNING SAFETY STAND-POINT, ALL CAMERA INCLUDING REAR-VIEW. THIS PROBLEM WAS REPORTED TO TESLA ON 12/1 AND NO SOLUTION HAS BEEN FORTHCOMING. IN SCANNING THE INTERNET, THIS SEEMS TO BE A SERIOUS REOCCURING PROBLEM WITH THE CENTRAL MCU COMPUTER CONSOLE. THE CAR IS DRIVE-ABLE BUT WITHOUT SAFETY PRECAUTIONS OR FUNCTIONALITY IN EVEN THE MOST BASIC OF OPERATIONS.

REAR BACKUP CAMERA NO LONGER USABLE AT NIGHT SINCE TESLA UPGRADED THE SOFTWARE/MCU2 COMPUTER SYSTEM.

TOUCHSCREEN FAILURE IN EITHER COMPLETE BLACK SCREEN OR UNRESPONSIVE DURING DRIVING. IN ADDITIONAL, PARTIAL FUNCTION LOSS OF THE INSTRUCTION PANELS IN THE MEAN TIME. THIS IS HAPPENING ONCE EVERY FEW MONTHS THAT FORCE ME HAVE TO STOPPED ON THE ROAD TO REBOOT/DEEP REST THE SYSTEM. WHEN ITS FAILED I LOSS VIEW OF REAR CAMERA, CANNOT OPERATE HVAC (DEFOGGING) LIGHT, AND LOSS OF THE PARKING ASSISTANT SUPPORT. FURTHERMORE I SUSPECT THIS DEFECTS ALSO RENDERS MY INTERNAL WEB BROWSER UNUSABLE AND COVERTLY LOSING OF NAVIGATION VOICE PROMPT. I AWARE THE CAUSE OF THIS ISSUE FROM NHTSA INVESTIGATION EA-20-003. HOWEVER, WHEN CONTACT TESLA FOR THIS ISSUE THEY SIMPLY REFUSE TO FIX THE DEFECTS EMMC CITING I HAVE TO PROVIDE SPECIFIC DATE AND TIME OF FAILURE, WHICH IS UNREASONABLE UNLESS THE DRIVER IS ALREADY AWARE THE DETAIL OF THIS DEFECTS AND TAKING SPECIFIC NOTE FOR THE OCCURRENCE. HOWEVER, I LUCKILY MADE A NOTE FOR THE OCCURRENCE AT THE TIME, BUT TESLA STILL REFUSE TO REPLACE THE DEFECTS UNIT CITING THEY LOSS THE LOG OF MY INCIDENT. THEN, THEY PUSHED A SOFTWARE UPGRADE SIMPLY DEFER THE PROBLEM FROM HAPPENING. FURTHERMORE, IN THIS PANDEMIC SITUATION, MANY PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO AVOID OF GOING OUT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. MY POINT IS THEIR DEFECTS ALREADY CAUSE MATERIALIZED DAMAGE TO THE EMMC, WHICH HAS A FIXED LIFESPAN FOR THE CYCLE OF WRITES. IT SHOULD BE REQUIRED A RECALL FOR THESE DEFECTS DEVICE WILL FAILED SOONER OR LATER.

I'M NOT FROM THE US, BUT WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE ALSO SAFETY PROBLEMS WITH MODEL X CARS IN EUROPE. MY CAR, A TESLA X FROM APRIL 2017 WITH 93.682 KILOMETERS DRIVEN BROKE DOWN WITH A BROKEN SUSPENSION PART. THE WHEEL WAS MOVING FOR- AND BACKWARDS COMPARED TO THE VEHICLE. TESLA CALS THE PART FORE LINK ASSY LH (1041570-00-B). WHEN PARKING THE CAR IN REVERSE, THE FRONT A THE CAR CAME UP FOR 5 CENTIMETERS. IT HAPPENED ALSO DRIVING SLOWLY FORWARD. THE BIG RING ON THE END OF THIS PART (THE SITE THAT IS CONNECTED CLOSE TO THE WHEEL) WAS COMPLETELY TORN OPEN. TESLA ALSO HAD TO REPLACE THE LEFT AND RIGHT FR SUSP AFT LINK ASSY BECAUSE OF "WEAR AND TEAR". UPPER CONTROL ARM WERE ALREADY REPLACED IN JUNE 2020. REAR MOTOR REPLACED JANUARI 2018, ELECTRONICS FOR OPENING FRONT DOORS REPLACED IN MARCH 2020, NEW POWER STEERING APRIL 2020. I LIKE YOU TO INVITE THE ALSO LOOK AT SUSPENSION SAFETY ISSUES IN EUROPE WITH THE MODEL X AND S. THESE ISSUES HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ROAD CONDITIONS, WE HAVE VERY NICE SMOOTH ROADS HERE IN THE NETHERLANDS. I MADE A VIDEO OF THE MOVEMENT OF THE FRONT LEFT WHEEL.

WHEN THE CAR IS PARKED THEN PUT IN REVERSE, THE CAR MAKES A LOUD CRACKING NOISE. I WAS TOLD IT WAS BRAKES THAT WERE CLEANED UP BUT STILL MAKE A LOUD NOISE.