Slow driving in the village. at a sharp turn to right (after the stop sign) i heard scratching the front right wheel on the chassis. it was dark and i did not find something strange so i drove slowly to my house, where i had a closer look: one photo is the good suspension on the left and the other is the broken on the right.
Note, vin of junkyard tesla used to be able to file this urgent report. thread posted today on teslamotorsclub forum. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/suspension-failure.181184/ **my left front suspension failed. i have less than a month warranty. the camber arm or fore arm broke at the inside end. there are are plenty of references on the us part of the forum. mine is a 2015 85d. it is not driveable & has been taken away on a flatbed. i have now lost all confidence in teslas & regret my purchase. i have never had a suspension fault in any vehicle ive owned before & this includes a 911 porsche. ive been to cooketown & back to melbourne. what if this fault had occurred back of townsville? fix with fencing wire? tesla needs to do a recall & address this problem.** i am filing these reports in order to try and prevent more people being killed by this failure. elon musk claims these complaints are fraudulent and that the complainant is unhinged. i'm not anywhere near as unhinged as the tesla suspensions. please issue an immediate recall. thank you. keef (unhinged) wivaneff
Another model x in the junkyard. https://www.copart.com/lot/56210209/photos no crash.... just the usual whompy wheel. please please please get these things off the public roads. they are unsafe at any speed. thank you. keef
Here is a model x in the junkyard. https://www.iaai.com/vehicledetails?itemid=34369828&rownumber=4&similarvehicleitemid=&isnext=&loadrecent=true it has been in a rollover crash and has bio-hazard stickers. occupants have certainly been injured. the left hand side of the car is almost completely undamaged but the left hand rear suspension has snapped off. that wheel is lying on the ground next to the wreck. it does not have so much as a broken spoke or damaged tire. it is highly likely that the cause of the rollover was the left hand suspension failure. in any other make of car even if a wheel received a hard impact it would be the wheel itself that would break and not the suspension itself. this is not a one off freak accident. there have been hundreds of similar cases of suspension breakage on teslas. if tesla needs to use alloy suspension parts for weight reduction in order to achieve ludicrous acceleration then at least it should be using better quality castings and regular inspection and crack testing. same thing applies to tesla employees and officers. there is a child seat in the back of this tesla. how many dead children does it take for you to launch an investigation? please do your job and demand a recall of these cars which are simply unsafe at any speed. thank you. outraged citizen.
That's the whompiest tesla i ever did see. https://www.copart.com/lot/55588059/photos please investigate. perplexed citizen.
Left front control arm broke at 70mph on highway. was luckily able to get to the side of the road. it caused damage to inside wheel well and wore through causing battery to lose all coolant. car is 3 1/2 years old with 113,000 miles.
I just joined the broken forelink club. my 2015 s p90d developed an erratic low "thump" sound from the front end while driving home - fortunately on low speed streets. next day i planned to take it to the service center to have it checked, but while backing out of the driveway, turning the wheel to the right to join the street, it made an ominous crunching sound and shut off. finally, the car rebooted and i slowly moved up the driveway and stopped. when i turned the wheel to the right, i could see the tire hitting the rear of the wheel well - the car again shut itself off. i called tesla roadside service, a flatbed came, the car rebooted long enough to straighten the wheels and get the car on the truck. the truck driver said he had seen this before, and that whole wheel wells had disintegrated. they replaced both forelinks with "improved" parts. it is frightening to think of what would have happened at 75 mph on the freeway! i'm not sure how much i trust the repair from what i have read in the tesla forum - numerous such failures - but i will certainly keep an ear out for low-frequency thumps - another vigilance task. this should have been a recall. shame on tesla . . .
Excessive corrosion on steering u-joint causing lockup and excessive force to turn wheel, requiring repair. excessive corrosion on control suspension arms, requiring repair.
I believe the right steering knuckle failed after hitting a bump. the failure cause the suspension to crash into the road causing a large amount of suspension damage.
I was driving my tesla model s slowly on a busy downtown street lined with parking spaces. speed was less than 25 miles per hour. i braked to allow a car to pull out of a parking spot and my car made a loud noise. i tried to continue driving but the noise continued so i pulled into the parking spot that had been vacated by the other driver to see what happened. there was windshield wiper fluid leaking from the front wheel well and a visibly broken control arm at the front left wheel. i think that is what the part is called but i am not certain. there is a picture of the broken part attached. the wheel well was damaged and the trim at the bottom of the door was loose. there appears to be no cause for this failure as there was nothing in the road, no pot holes, no objects, no bumps. the car was driving fine before this occurred. the failure occurred about 3 minutes after i started the trip. speed was low the entire trip as i was leaving a restaurant in a downtown area full of pedestrians, stop signs and parking spaces. the car was not drive-able following this failure since the front wheel was no longer supported. tesla sent a tow truck to take the car to their nearest service center.
Here is another tesla in the junkyard: https://www.copart.com/lot/26110488 it has not been in a crash but the suspension has collapsed and the front wheels have gone all cross-eyed and whompy. this would tend to make it difficult to steer. please do something about these ridiculously unsafe electric jalopies. thank you. concerned citizen.
Broken front suspension fore link i noticed a clunking sound at slow speed when going over small bumps, so i stayed off the expressway and slowly drove home on local roads. after arriving home, i backed up while turning the wheels to the right and the car abruptly stopped as the back of the right front wheel jammed solid against the inside wheel well lining. the right front wheel was an inch or two back from where it should be. i looked under from the front bumper and saw that i had a cracked fore link and a piece of the fore link was laying in my driveway. i still have that broken piece. tesla sent a flat bed truck to get the car and replaced the fore link. this failure sure looks like it could cause a serious accident. i feel very lucky this didn't break at high speed on the expressway in traffic or on a jug handle. the attached photos show the fore link before and after replacement.
Here is a tesla in the junkyard: https://www.copart.com/lot/28880838/photos there is no damage to the bodywork and it has not been in a collision but the suspension has collapsed jamming all the wheels up into the wheel wells and causing the car to stop so rapidly that the air bags have deployed. it is only by good fortune that this did not cause a collision with another car. it is a proven fact that the air suspension on teslas does not have limit stops and is prone to this kind of failure. the auction listing for this car notes that it has suspension damage. this car is a danger to road users. it is badly designed, shoddily constructed, and the culture at tesla discourages problems like this from being reported so that the issues can be addressed at the source. please take action. thank you. concerned citizen.
Another tesla in the junkyard: https://www.copart.com/lot/26275078/photos photograph shows clearly that the absurdly fragile suspension link has snapped apart. it is a near certainty that this breakage was the cause of the crash and not merely the result of it. the wheel and tire are undamaged. it is highly unlikely that a blow to the wheel would break the suspension without the wheel being damaged. please investigate. thank you. perplexed citizen.
Here is another tesla in the junkyard:https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=27797817&rownumber=76&loadrecent=true it has not been in a crash except that another car seems to have given it a very slight bump up the clacker. what is very interesting is that the lh front wheel is pointing straight ahead but the lh wheel has gone all whompy. this probably caused the tesla to slow down unexpectedly causing the car behind to boink it up the rear quite vigorously. please be so kind as to investigate this. thank you
Here is a tesla in the junkyard. https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=27048301&rownumber=13&loadrecent=true it has been in a major accident and is extensively damaged. the rh back wheel has gone whompy. the tread on that tire is completely worn down to the canvas. the car must have been driven for several miles with the tread rubbing against the bodywork until eventually the suspension broke off completely. this exact same failure has been reported many times. a high quality photograph of an incident that occurred in china is also attached for purpose of comparison. the same result, driver is unaware of the problem until the wheel finally snaps off. this is a design/manufacturing failure. please investigate. concerned citizen etc.
Here is another tesla in the junkyard: https://www.copart.com/lot/46307367/photos the suspension on the front lh side has broken. the wheel is jammed up and back in the wheel arch. the tread on the tire has been badly worn away which means that the wheel has rotated many times whilst the tire was rubbing against the bodywork. this can only have happened if the suspension broke before any collision occurred. the headlight on that side is not even broken. it looks as though all the damage to the vehicle is self-inflicted due to suspension failure. please note that this is a rear wheel drive only model so that it was not the power of the drive motor that wore the tread away. the car must have driven for several miles with the tire rubbing before the suspension failed completely. the evidence pointing to a design/manufacturing failure in these teslas is overwhelming. if no action is taken it is a certainty that more deaths and injuries will occur due to suspension failures. please take action urgently. thank you. concerned citizen etc. date of incident is an approximation.
Here is a tesla in the junkyard: https://www.copart.com/lot/44784947/photos it has been in a major collision and judging by the condition of the wreck it is almost certain that occupants have been killed. given the many reports that have been made already it is highly likely that mechanical failure played a part in this crash. the attached photograph of the front tire appears to show the tread worn away over most of the width of the tire. this is consistent with a suspension component failure causing the tire to rub up against the wheel well whilst the car was travelling. it would be impossible for such tread wear to occur post collision as the wheel would need to have rotated hundreds of times to cause the tread to be worn smooth. please take action to prevent more deaths and injuries being caused by these teslas. there have been so many crashes in which mechanical failure appears to be a probable cause of the accident that an investigation is overdue. any mechanical engineer can confirm that the alloy suspension parts do not have sufficient margin of safety for such a heavy and powerful car. details of injuries, speed etc. are estimations based on the severity of damage to the wrecked car. thank you. concerned citizen.
Here is a tesla in the junkyard. https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=26516457&rownumber=54&loadrecent=true wheel fallen off again. photo attached. this is becoming rather boring for me and for you. the solution is to have these dangerous cars recalled immediately. please do so. concerned citizen etc.
Here is a tesla in the junkyard: https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=26419239&rownumber=95&loadrecent=true it has been hit from the rear but the attached photographs show a skewed rear wheel and broken suspension linkage which is very likely the reason that the car suddenly slowed/swerved causing it to be hit from the rear. the alloy lower suspension arm has snapped. the wheel and tire are undamaged. it is highly improbable that collision damage was the cause of the broken suspension arm since the tire would have absorbed most of the impact. from the crash testing videos it is evident that the tesla wheels are very fragile and ought to have broken before the suspension did. this looks once again to be the fault of poor design and manufacturing of the cast alloy suspension parts in the tesla. please investigate. concerned citizen etc. date of incident is an approximation.
Here is yet another tesla in the junkyard with a broken suspension: https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=26267542&rownumber=88&loadrecent=true multiple components of the suspension have snapped. the steering knuckle has broken in half and the lower arm ball joints have failed. there have been many other examples of this kind of failure and it is apparent that tesla is quietly fixing some customers cars without even informing other owners of the danger. example - http://bit.ly/2y5uqcc and also https://seekingalpha.com/news/3299876-truth-catching-tesla-wsj?v=1507546600 ***mine has had numerous suspension replacements done during servicing (not requested by me, but printed on the job sheets). i also know several others with similar vintage cars (pre-2015) that have had similar proactive work done. so it may not be wholesale throughout the fleet, but it does appear they have been doing "recall-lite" on something suspension related on at least part of the fleet.**** please take action. concerned citizen etc.
Front left control arm suffered a failure causing it to break loose from the ball joint and causing the wheel to push back into the body of the car. the failure caused the car to lift up and come to a dead stop. this was at ~5mph after after backing out of the driveway of our house on a residential paved street and starting to drive forward. there were no noises or warnings until the failure of the control are occurred. the photo of the wheel shows it pushed back all the way to make frame contact. the other photos show the control arm completely disconnected from its mounting point. there was some damage to the wheel well liner and lip of the fender thanks to the slow speed that it occurred. the car had to be driven backwards onto a flatbed trailer and then dolly's put under the front wheels in order to get the car to roll forward into the repair shop. it could not be driven forward at all. this failure is very concerning and had it occurred at high speed could have resulted in injury.
I am filing this complaint on behalf of the owner who has indicated that she has not yet filed a complaint and may not do so if she is satisfied with the response from tesla. here is the discussion thread: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/cracked-forelink.95637/ snip : jenniferq, saturday at 7:15 pm was driving yesterday on the freeway in ap in heavy traffic with 3 kids in the car, and the car stops suddenly and successfully, but then a terrible sound emanates from the left front wheel. kids crying so i pull off the freeway thinking something is caught on the wheel/tire to find the back of the lf wheel well cover lifted up and pressing against the tire. once roadside gets there, the tech shows me how the "a arm" has split and come off of the ball joint and dropped down and is interfering with the wheel. wow! service was exceptional. i was about 1 hour away from the nearest service center in friday afternoon traffic, but roadside and a loaner tesla (o.g. from 2011, so now i understand a lot more about the posts from before 2015!) showed up and we were back on our way out of town within about an hour. but, this could have been a serious accident. i wonder what caused the failure. the tesla tech says maybe improper torqueing of the forelink. just wondering if this has happened to anyone else? my car has almost 30k miles and has had no other mechanical issues. very unnerving, to say the least, at what could have been a serious accident if we'd been going at speed and the suspension had come apart like this then. thoughts?
While stopping quickly on the freeway, a terrible sound emanated from the left front wheel. i pulled off the freeway thinking something was caught on the wheel/tire to find the back of the lf wheel well cover lifted up and pressing against the tire. once roadside got there, the tech showed me how the "a arm" had split and come off of the ball joint and dropped down and was interfering with the wheel. service says "more than likely the forelinks were not appropriately torqued, so while drive (sic) they became loose and cracked" this could have been a serious accident if the a arm had come loose at speed. what caused this?
Here is another tesla in the junkyard : https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=26176475&rownumber=47&loadrecent=true the suspension has collapsed and the front wheel has gone whompy. no air-bags have been deployed. there is no damage to the bodywork, not even a broken headlight. this is another example of tesla spontaneous suspension collapse. the alloy suspension components are too weak for the purpose. they have insufficient margin of safety. the cast alloy parts are prone to casting defects making them dangerously weak. please investigate. concerned citizen etc.
Here is a report of a tesla involved in a crash. http://bgr.com/2017/05/23/tesla-crash-photos-walk-away/ i am filing this report as a concerned citizen because i think the owner will not make a complaint himself since tesla owners are often tsla shareholders and are unwilling to make any criticism. two things to note: the back wheel flew off and nearly killed a bystander. the airbags failed to deploy and a passenger was seriously injured. please see attached files from a facebook page in which the owner describes the crash.
Here is another tesla in the junkyard. https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=24196330&rownumber=59&loadrecent=true the front rh suspension has collapsed. the rh front wheel is sliced in half. the tire on the rh front wheel has the tread badly worn away. this is not consistent with the normal wear pattern on such a relatively new car. it looks far more like it was caused by the suspension collapse forcing the wheel up against the bodywork. there is a ridiculous number of teslas showing up as salvage wrecks. the insurers would probably place the blame on tesla having a mechanical defect. it is my belief that tesla is making deals with the insurers and owners to cover up these problems. please investigate.
Here is another tesla in the junkyard with a snapped off back wheel. https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=25122928&rownumber=51&loadrecent=true pictures show that no airbags have deployed, car has not been in a crash. the suspension components have simply snapped off as has happened many times before on tesla cars. the suspension giblets are far too weak for a car of this power and performance. please investigate.
Here is a burned out tesla in the junkyard. https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=24822571&rownumber=40&loadrecent=true the front lh wheel is jammed back in the wheel arch. the front lh tire shows signs of having been gouged while it was still rotating. the lower suspension arm is lying on the ground. a wheel liner is lying inside the car but it is not fire damaged. this strongly suggests that it was recovered from the roadway and is further evidence that suspension failure caused the wheel to jam up into the well and was the main cause of the crash. the tesla suspensions are failing far to often and the fire problem has not been solved by the flimsy titanium battery shields. please investigate.
Here is a tesla in the junkyard. https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=24470024&rownumber=21&loadrecent=true the suspension has collapsed on all four wheels. the front rh wheel and suspension has been completely wrenched off. the front of the car is virtually undamaged. this is almost certainly another case of the air suspension failing and (due to the badly designed suspension not being fitted with bump stops) all the damage to the car is self-inflicted. there is a pattern of failure in these cars which is placing lives at risk. please investigate. (not the owner, just a concerned citizen)
Here is further evidence that indicates tesla suspensions are ridiculously fragile. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/ball-joint-failure-on-2015-ms70d-at-11k-miles-tesla-wont-cover.88051/ snip: i turned the wheel to back out of my garage at 6:30am, and heard a thump. called roadside assistance, sent a tow truck, they said the right front ball joint was brokenthey towed the car to the certified bodyshop and the rep laughed and laughed and said this is all he ever sees. a ball joint sheer the driver doesn't detect and then boom. owners are failing to report these problems to nhtsa due to peer pressure from fellow tesla owners and because most of them are tesla shareholders. tesla does not appear to have proper quality control that would allow information about these failures to be passed up the line so that the problem can be corrected. please investigate these failures ball joints should not be snapping on late model cars just as a result of a small pothole. thank you. concerned citizen.
Here is a burned out tesla in the junkyard: https://www.salvagereseller.com/cars-for-sale/22669817-2015-tesla-model-s-85-vallejo-ca i have no knowledge of the circumstances of the incident but i believe that it is significant that the photographs show a broken ball joint in the front lh suspension. this is a steel component that does not appear to have popped apart due to fire damage but is more likely to be one of the regular cases of suspension failure that afflicts the tesla. please investigate. concerned citizen etc.
Here is another tesla in the junkyard: https://www.salvagereseller.com/cars-for-sale/24795207-2015-tesla-model-s-85-sun-valley-ca all four wheels have gone totally whompy. this is not just a joke. lives are at risk. please take action. thank you. concerned citizen.
Here is a tesla in the junkyard. https://www.copart.com/lot/18211677/photos both wheels on the left hand side have fallen off. the top ball joint on front lh wheel has popped apart. the right hand back wheel has gone all whompy. that would make the car rather difficult to drive. please investigate the reason why the tesla loses its wheels so often. thank you.
Here is a burned out tesla in the junkyard https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=24822571&rownumber=3&loadrecent=true the front lh wheel is jammed back into the battery. the tread on the tire is worn away which indicates that the wheel was jammed back against the battery while the car was still rolling forward. it is highly probable that suspension failure was the cause of the fire. despite assurances to the contrary fires are still happening all too frequently in the tesla. a recent crash in china resulted in the tesla exploding in flames and the back seat passengers only narrowly escaped incineration.: https://electrek.co/2017/04/23/tesla-model-x-fire-crash-falcon-wing-doors-stuck/ i am filing these reports in the public interest. owners believe the tesla is the safest car in the world. judging by the hundreds of teslas that have been involved in serious accidents this appears to be a myth. please investigate.
Here is another tesla freshly arrived in the junkyard. https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=24528296&rownumber=52&loadrecent=true&isnext=true it has been having a very bad day. the front wheel has fallen off and the back wheel has gone all whompy. please investigate. not an owner, just a concerned citizen banging his head against a wall. thank you for your time.
Another tesla in the junkyard https://m.iaai.com/vehicledetenc.aspx?auctionid=0&itemid=24196330&rowid=21&pagesource=vehicleresults# it does appear to show the characteristic signs of suspension collapse. whilst it is possible that this is the result of a collision it is also quite possible that it was the cause of the collision. for an expensive car that is mainly driven by older and more conservative owners than the average car it is showing up as insurance write off in an excessive percentage of cases. please investigate the circumstances of this incident.
Here is a tesla in the salvage yard. https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=24331835&rownumber=24&loadrecent=true it has not been in a crash. the front rh suspension has fallen to bits and the wheel has gone extremely whompy. this is becoming ridiculous. please open an investigation into this tesla suspension problem.
Here is a tesla in the junkyard. https://www.copart.com/lot/22155996/photos the back suspension has completely ripped off. it looks highly unlikely that this failure was caused by a collision and it seems far more likely that this the long is yet another case of these suspensions failing under the strain of acceleration or braking due to to alloy components being too weak for the job. had this happened at high speed multiple fatalities could have occurred. please investigate. (i am not the owner, date of crash and circumstances are estimates based upon the photographs.)
Here is a tesla in the salvage yard. https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=23943967&rownumber=20&loadrecent=true the attached photograph shows that the top ball joint on the front rh wheel has separated causing gouging of the tire tread. the wheel is displaced towards the rear of the wheel well which is most likely the cause of the fire. the fire has been hot enough to melt metal so it is almost certain that the lithium batteries were the source of the fire. please investigate the problems with tesla suspensions and also the issue of battery fires. lithium battery fires burn burn extremely hot, emit toxic fumes, and are difficult to extinguish. i request that you investigate the circumstances of this incident. i am not the owner, just a very concerned citizen. date of incident is an approximation.
Here is another tesla in the junkyard. https://www.copart.com/lot/43916706/photos it has major front end damage, the suspension appears to have collapsed. the back rh wheel which has not suffered any impact damage has gone extremely whompy. given the many other examples of teslas with snapped suspensions it seems highly probable that suspension failure caused this crash. please investigate.
Here is a tesla in the salvage yard. https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=24164989&rownumber=17&loadrecent=true it has been having a very bad day! the lh side has suffered major impact damage. the rh side is relatively undamaged but the back wheel has gone all whompy. bearing in mind the large number of other incidents in which tesla suspensions have failed it seems possible that the skewed rh back wheel is what caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle. please investigate this problem. note: i am not the owner, just a concerned citizen. dates and mileage are approximations.
Here is a tesla in the salvage yard. https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=24298768&rownumber=22&loadrecent=true it is listed as having suspension damage and has been written off by the insurer. there is no damage to the bodywork and the airbags have not deployed. the suspension appears to have collapsed in the usual tesla fashion. it seems extraordinary that the suspension does not have bump stops to prevent this repeating failure. it is also extraordinary that the car needs to be written off rather than repaired to a safe condition. please investigate. note: i am not the owner, just a concerned citizen. date of incident is an approximation.
Here is a tesla in the salvage yard. https://m.iaai.com/vehicledetenc.aspx?auctionid=22126555&itemid=23722036&rowid=11&pagesource=vehicleresults the photographs show that one of the lower suspensiopn arms has snapped. the worn tire proves that this occurred while the vehicle was in motion and this was not caused by impact damage. there have been about 100 similar failures. please investigate this urgently. lives are at risk.
Here is a model s in the salvage yard. https://m.iaai.com/vehicledetenc.aspx?auctionid=0&itemid=23494189&rowid=6&pagesource=vehicleresults# as you can see from the attached photograph the top ball joint of the steering knuckle has popped apart. the rim of the wheel is gouged on the inside and the tire is peeled off. this can not possibly have occurred after a collision. the wheel was still rolling when the suspension failed. the ball joint should be much stronger than the top arms and should never fail like that. this is the clearest evidence yet of a tesla suspension failure causing suspension collapse. please take action.
Here is a 2015 tesla in the salvage yard. it does not appear to have been in a collision but the front lh ball joint has popped apart causing the wheel to skew over at an angle. this failure could easily have caused multiple fatalities. there have been over a hundred reports of tesla suspensions failing. please take action to prevent further death and injury.
I was driving my car to work and accidentally scraped the front right wheel on a curb near a roundabout on an old/narrow seattle street (there was oncoming traffic and parked cars so i had very little room on my right and mis-judged). the paint on the wheel was pretty badly scraped up but otherwise the car was fine (no body damage) and the wheel had no visual structural damage (the car's alignment was not affected). i continued driving to work without issue, including 5-6 miles on the highway at 60mph. when parking in the underground garage at my office 20 minutes after the curb incident, i turned the wheel to the left to adjust my car in the parking spot and heard/felt a rubbing sound, followed by a loud clunk. the front right of the car dropped and the wheel fell off the suspension and was wedged under the front of the car. the car was disabled and had to be towed to tesla. given the amount of force applied to the wheel by the curb and the lack of other symptoms, it seems unlikely that any normal, stock suspension should fail as it did with this car. it appears a bolt on the lower control arm sheared off completely when i was parking (and had probably been fatigued by the curbing incident).
Here is a tesla in the salvage yard http://www.copart.com/us/lot/34215386?searchid=1942545060 the ball joint has pulled out from the steering knuckle causing the wheel to slew back into the wheel well. the wheel liner is shredded. there is no impact damage forward of the wheel that would account for the damage. tesla suspensions are failing in a variety of ways which suggests that the design, manufacture, and testing are inadequate and present a hazard to the public. please investigate.
Another model s in the salvage yard with a collapsed front suspension. https://m.iaai.com/vehicledetenc.aspx?auctionid=0&itemid=22996029&rowid=6&pagesource=vehicleresults# airbags not deployed. no sign of collision damage but both front wheels are jammed up in the wheel wells and have tangled up in the liner. the number of similar incidents is alarming. please investigate.
My tesla model s - 2015 - had the left front suspension malfunction. tesla claims it was damaged - although the car has only been driven 12000 miles - and only on city streets and highways. there has been no off roading and hazardous road conditions. the car was left unable to be driven. the tesla dealer refuses to discuss the matter - simply saying that this is not covered under warranty and insisting i file an insurance claim. i have asked to speak to a supervisor - and can not get a reply from them. i have called tesla head office - and they referred me back to the local deal - and assured me they would follow up and they have not. further more - the replacement parts have been on order and are taking an excessive amount of time. i am concerned - after researching this - that the tesla air suspension may be faulty - and my in fact be hazardous when driving.