I wish to file a complaint about a tesla model 3 in the interest of human safety. this is concerning the issue of battery fires. i believe that this incident has so far gone unreported. here is a model 3 in the salvage auction yard that has been almost totally destroyed by fire. https://www.iaai.com/vehicledetails?itemid=34394730&rownumber=2&similarvehicleitemid=&isnext=&loadrecent=true the car is so badly burned that the vin is not able to be determined but the auction site would have that record. i have substituted the vin of another wrecked model 3 in order to make this report. there has been a recent post on tesla motors club forum which provides photos of the fire scene on the highway at vacaville and the images match the junkyard car. it seems that tesla is using the "ran over a trailer hitch on the roadway" aka "cat ate my homework" excuse again but looking at the photos it seems that a whompy wheel is the more likely cause. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/another-tesla-fire.175198/ **** ddawson, today at 9:51 am vacaville fire department car fire. i was told the owner ran over a trailer hitch that fell off a truck. i believe its a 3. no one hurt at least.. **** and *** this story actually did run on the 11:00 news, sunday nov. 24th, on kpix (our local cbs affiliate). it was reported by brian hackney. the story wasn't clear about where the fire took place, other than in vacaville where there does happen to be a supercharger. they showed the same dramatic image of the burned-out car. fortunately no one was injured here. the weird part is that the kpix website never showed the story. i searched afterward, and the other stories reported that night (including the one about prius catalytic converter thefts) were all up, except for that one** please investigate. thank you.
While driving through my work place parking lot, my tesla suddenly stopped and displayed a fault code and requesting immediate return of the car to a tesla service center. my car would not unlock the doors when i tried to exit, either via the touch screen unlock icon, electric door unlock button, or using my phone app. i ended up using the emergency door open latch to get out of the car to call for assistance. i closed the door behind me but was unable to reenter the car. tried my key card and my phone app to unlock it but to no avail. the car ended up having to be tow away.
The high voltage battery the new car was purchased with had damage to the 4 jack points that required the battery pack to be replaced. the original battery would charge to the full range purchased, however, the new battery that was installed will not charge to the full amount of range purchased. i brought this up to service before i picked up the car from service. they tried to get it to fully charge multiple times but it would not. i asked to see the battery health report and they declined. if you purchase a new car with x amount of range, when the battery is charged to 100%, it should display the range you paid for. they told me if i was unhappy with the range, i was free to file an arbitration claim. on the way home i almost ran out of battery and could have really used the extra capacity that i purchased.
I was moving forward at ~15 mph over a set of railroad tracks on a city street when both electric motors stopped working bringing us to a halt on the tracks. the car would not switch into neutral to allow it to be pushed off of the tracks nor would it release the brakes until put into tow mode which required 4-5 people to push at that point. there were no steps displayed to get the car into a mode that would allow it to move.
I am making this complaint in the interest of public safety. there has been a tesla model 3 crash in russia. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9700731/tesla-car-explodes-autopilot-failure-driver-truck-russia/ irrespective of whether autopilot or driver distraction was the cause of the crash the batteries literally exploded. this is an order of magnitude worse than the model s and x fires. ** i have used the vin of another model 3 which is in a wrecking yard** this is not done in any fraudulent way. it is done in order to comply with your website design. it is near impossible for the russian owner to negotiate your site and file a complaint so i have taken the liberty of filing on his behalf.