2022 TESLA MODEL Y Complaints

PHANTOM BRAKING issue at highway speeds with autopilot engaged. The car will harshly start braking suddenly on highway to a near complete stop.

2022 TESLA MODEL Y- Consumer sent in a copy of settle request sent originally to Tesla Corp. and a copy of proposed complaint document. Short summary of settlement doc is as followed: "To Whom it May Concern, Please regard this as my last and final attempt to resolve our disputes. I had previously directed Counsel to transmit a letter to you on January 6, 2023. That letter indicated my Revocation of Acceptance pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code §2608 and notice of defect under the Lemon Law. You have neither responded or taken any action to investigate or make me whole, despite the vehicle having less than 3,000 miles on it, and thus being well within the scope of your warranty. As you are aware, the vehicle you sold me contains material manufacturing design and marketing defects, which I summarize here and in the attached proposed complaint, as follows: -The Vehicle has been contaminated with dangerous VOCs. Independent environmental testing has detected the presence of methl ethly ketone (72 ppbv), ethyl acetate (120 ppbv) and Methyl methacrylate (140 ppbv). This renders the vehicle unsafe to drive. These chemicals are industrial adhesives and solvents used in the manufacture of Tesla's products, and their use has been experimentally tested with fast charging lithium ion cells, specifically, the product I purchased. -The Vehicle does not meet purported manufacturer charging specifications as sold. The vehicle I purchased takes 48 hours to charge - far longer than the normal time represented to me both in terms of materials you posted online in addition to your sales staff. Moreover, the driving range is far shorter than what you purported it to be when the vehicle is sold. -The Software is defective. It freezes. It prevents me from actually shutting the car off. -The "Hands Free" feature is inherently dangerous. This feature does not truly let you drive "hands free". The driver can't merely touch the wheel. One has to jerk the wheel with sudden motion, and if one doesn't the car repeatedly beeps - startlin

The driver seat's manual door opening latch does not open the door. That means in case of battery failure, fire or accident ( when the car 's battery is not working) driver cannot get out of the car from driver's seat. And from the design there is no manual door opening function in the back seats.

My wife and I were on the highway 44 in the model Y travelling at around 79 miles an hour. There was no other vehicles close to us or in front of us. This was about 1:30 PM and there was no clouds in the sky. The autopilot had been engaged and for no reason, the car started to emergency brake. This was very scary since it was very abrupt and if another vehicle would have been following too close we would have been hit from behind causing damage and or causing death to us both. The vehicle has done this numerous times since we have owned it. It was reported to Tesla and I had a service scheduled to have them look at it. They claimed they looked at the logs and did not see any issues, which I find hard to believe, I asked for the logs and they refused to provide them to me. They claimed I would not understand them, although I explained that I am engineer and I have 25 years of experience with such things. Trust me, I can read a safety log! They claim they will fix with a software update, but when asked for an ECD or ETA they refused to give me that information.

I have the latest software for FSD, 2023.7.20. I was driving North on 71 in Ohio, there are three lanes of traffic. I was in the right hand lane at the speed limit under FSD. There were no cars in front of me and no objects on the roadside. There were cars in front of me in the center and left hand lane. Suddenly the brakes were applied very hard, fortunately the SUV that was behind me was able to slow and move to the middle lane. The speed went from 70 to about 35. My wife, as the sole passenger will never ride in the car again.

The contact rented from Turo a 2022 Tesla Model Y. The contact stated that while his daughter was driving at approximately 65-70 MPH in rainy weather, the contact's daughter released her foot from the accelerator pedal to decelerate; however, she lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle crashed into a guardrail and went into a ditch. The vehicle then inadvertently reversed onto the highway. The contact's daughter slammed her foot on the brake pedal, and the vehicle stopped immediately. No warning light was illuminated. No air bags were deployed. A police report was filed. The contact's daughter suffered body aches, and medical attention was received. The vehicle was towed to an unknown location. The contact was unaware if the vehicle was deemed totaled by the insurance company. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was unknown. The VIN was unavailable.

As I was walking up to my Tesla Model Y I used the tesla app on my phone to open my read hatch. The door opened as I approached, when I got to the car, Some how the rear hatch closed without touching the car button or the app, striking me on the head hard, causing a contusion to the top of my head. I have video from the car showing the incident, but can not upload below due to file type restriction

Yesterday I drove 1 shift on UberX in chill mode, very carefully and tried to save as much energy as possible. Here’s what happened. I left the house with 100% charged 274 miles range not 303 advertised I track everywhere I go with Everlance GPS. After a couple rides, I noticed the cars augmented reality for auto pilot wasn’t seeing the environment properly and like usual the safety features were disabled, but I am unable to record it responsibly while driving my passenger on UberX not Uber black. When I got to a red light with no passenger, I recorded on my iPhone the Tesla failing to see about 35 to 40 vehicles over the course of 45 seconds and also fails to see a black man walking slowly across the crosswalk just 2 feet in front of the car but it can see cars 100 feet away. Meaning there is an intentional Blindspot that would be in the collision warning zone that the car is purposely not seeing because the car is hacked. Directly after that I picked up a man from his house who also has a model Y and brought him to the airport. He’s an augmented reality engineer that looks familiar to me from Tesla. Turns out someone stole his brand new model Y from tampa Tesla, and brought it to a chop shop and went on a joyride, destroying the alignment, which he was given a large check for. He said Tesla was able to provide all the problems with his car with no issue. I told him all the problems with my car. Tesla has refused to even acknowledge after a dozen service appointment. Then I told him I have 100,000 GB of dash cam footage and secret recordings of the service manager telling me if I submit the footage to the FBI they would refuse service. Well, they already are refusing service. Also I drive a lot of federal agents and military personnel. When I got home, the car couldn’t account for 70 missing miles and it’s charging at one quarter speed. I reset the car three times. Now I’m trying to submit this on my computer, but the Internet cut out! BUSTED! Shut down Tesla!

A copy of this report is being submitted to the FBI, CIA, DOJ, my attorney and then I'm mailing it via USPS to my Attorney General [XXX] which responded to me about this car about a year ago saying she would investigate it. Yesterday my wife and I drove to Chevy and put a deposit on a new gasoline SUV. On the way back all the safety features disabled themselves and the car radio played "Break the Rules". Today I drove to Wawa to report my wife almost dying from being poisoned and on the way back the car in autopilot mode sped up towards an officer with his lights on and high visibility vest so I had to slam the brakes and move over at the last second and the Tesla didn't see the officer until he was 10 feet away and wrongly displayed the cops passenger door being open. I would NEVER drive towards an officer like that if I was in control of the car that's the faulty software. On my way back from Ford to the Mister Car Wash in Eustis to get the love bugs off the paint again I took the Tesla cam thumbdrive out, took out the micro sd from my dashcam, turned off my iPhone with the Tesla app on it and used autopilot to drive the scenic route to the carwash to avoid traffic. Then the car started playing the songs "Middle of the Ocean" which lyrics encourage you to drive your car into the ocean; then started playing "Swim Good" and then "Golddigger by Kanye West" the car disabled all its own safety features despite them still being turned on in the settings which would have allowed me to drive my Tesla off a CLIFF into LAKE EUSTIS just like that brain surgeon in California when his white Model Y drove him and his family off a cliff luckily they survived. I uploaded the video to my IG [XXX]which is currently banned for "using like increasing software" which is funny because I'm the only one that likes my posts but now I cant even like my own post. I have video evidence and screen recordings of everything I just said. As I type this the computer keeps stoppin INFORMATION Redacted PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT

Went on a 3,000 miles road trip and recorded countless bugs and safety issues. To keep this short and sweet because I’m pretty sure I’ve already broken the world record for DOT reports on a car without any intervention here’s some bullet points. 1. Car is falling extremely short of claimed mileage range. 2. Car refuses to charge or charges slow. 3. GPS is constantly wrong and sending me down dirt roads and trying to put me miles out of my way by giving wrong directions on purpose. 4. Car cannot switch lanes in Autopilot despite perfect visibility during night and day. 5. Car keeps slamming on the brakes with people behind me or in my blind spot for no apparent reason. 6. Car keeps telling me that charging stations are offline or unavailable and when I pull up it’s a bunch of lies and there are open spots and the car charges. 7. Whenever I pull up to a charger it ALWAYS happens to be the highest energy cost of the day. 8. Car sends me to wrong charging locations despite me selecting certain charging stations manually. 9. Car keeps making an awful scratching sound when music is paused or song changed. 10. Car keeps banning me from full self driving because the autopilot isn’t working properly even though I disabled FSD. 11. Car is constantly putting off a ton of heat to the point it raises my garage to over 100F. 12. Cars overheat protection mode doesn’t work properly and never has. 13. Car summon can’t make it 4 feet without side swiping the car next to it in the parking lot. 14. Car fails to see all emergency vehicles with or without lights on like a ghost car that doesn’t exist. 15. AC is inaccurate and is either not reaching temp and the AC is roaring so loud I can’t hear anything but the air moving or is so cold myself and passengers start shivering. 16. Charging takes twice as long as advertised and never charges advertised speed like 150-250kwh 17. Full self driving can’t drive me more than 2 minutes without trying to kill me so I disabled it.