Front right air suspension failed in 3 1/5 years. i was advised to change both front suspension and the air pump at same time. the repair cost was $3395.25.
Was driving at 19 mph in city street and had to make a panic stop due to a car about to cut me off. heard a loud bang. i got out of the car and the driver side front wheel is displaced. further investigation i can see the lower driver side control arm had broken . car was not drivable without a loud crunching sound. i had it towed to the tesla service center.
There was a recent tesla crash in hudsonville in which a tesla suddenly swerved off the road. https://www.hollandsentinel.com/sports/20191117/four-injured-in-one-vehicle-crash-in-hudsonville **. the driver lost control of the vehicle and left the roadway at a high rate of speed, where the vehicle struck the embankment.** the tesla has now showed up in the salvage yard. https://www.copart.com/lot/60934829/photos i don't think the crash investigators would be aware of the tesla's tendency to have wheels go whompy and since the car was severely damaged in the crash it is likely to have gone unnoticed. the back rh wheel is displaced outwards by several inches. the wheel is not broken. the wheel well liner has been displaced. even if the wheel had been hit hard during the rollover surely the spokes of the wheel should have broken before the suspension linkages snapped. there are many images available of teslas that have had a back wheel jut out sideways because of broken linkages. you can see one on the front page of this website https://www.flickr.com/photos/136377865@n05/sets/72157658490111523/ and there are many other examples on that site. i am not trying to do the crash investigators job. i ...
Here is a video that a tesla owner has posted on youtube showing how his suspension has fallen apart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-q9ms8qbjo this is happening over and over to teslas due to them having absurdly fragile suspension components. the owner is adamant that this was not caused by any kind of abuse of the vehicle. the owner can easily be identified from the youtube channel and also from this earlier clip he posted.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzktda8ceqw this is a systemic failure. the owner has commented that if this failure had occurred at speed it would likely have been fatal.. please take action. please note that the vin of a junkyard tesla has been used in order to complete this submission. i have done this because it is urgent that this problem is investigated. thank you. keef
Here is another model x in the salvage auction yard. https://www.iaai.com/vehicledetails?itemid=34470734&rownumber=3&similarvehicleitemid=&isnext=&loadrecent=true it is listed as having frame and suspension damage. the driver's side front wheel is displaced in the wheel well and the tire is shredded around the entire circumference. since it is the drivers side it is highly unlikely that this damage was caused by scraping the curb. please add this one to the vast catalogue of tesla suspension failures. thank you. keef.
Yet another tesla with the back wheel snapped off. https://www.copart.com/lot/56738699/photos this is not crash damage...it is self-inflicted injury to suspension. why don't you guys get out of the office and go and inspect some of these cars? take a mechanic with you. he will confirm that the suspension parts are not strong enough for a billy cart let alone a 3 ton car with insane/ludicrous power and acceleration. nhtsa and tesla have blood on their hands. please demand a recall immediately. thank you. keef
Model x freshly arrived in the salvage yard. https://www.iaai.com/vehicledetails?itemid=34641215&rownumber=14&similarvehicleitemid=&isnext=&loadrecent=true back rh wheel gone whompy. front wheel and suspension completely fallen off. multiple ball joints snapped. cast alloy steering knuckle cracked in half. it does not appear that there is sufficient impact damage to the front of the car to justify the suspension snapping off. there is no crash damage whatsoever to the back of the car to justify the wheel going whompy. please excuse my persistence in filing these reports. it is obvious to me that there is a systemic failure in tesla suspensions caused by bad design and poor manufacturing. if you would be so kind as to launch a formal investigation then i will no longer need to bother you. it is likely that owners will fail to file complaints due to loyalty to the tesla mission. as a concerned citizen and road user i feel it is my civic duty to inform you about this problem. regards and seasons greetings to you all. keef
Please note that i have used the vin of another wrecked tesla to make this submission because the salvage auction site has not provide the full vin. here is yet another tesla with a broken suspension. https://www.copart.com/lot/56584359 there is hardly any damage to the front of the tesla. not so much as a broken headlight. the airbags have been deployed - most likely because the front suspension has fallen to bits and the wheel has gone severely whompy which would cause a violent swerve and deceleration. there is a clear pattern of failures in tesla suspensions. the alloy wheels are quite fragile as has been shown in crash testing. in case after case tesla suspensions fall apart all too easily. this is both insane and ludicrous. please investigate. keef ( who is not unhinged as alleged by elon musk)
This is another complaint about tesla suspension breakages. please note that i have used the vin of another broken tesla so that i can file this complaint immediately in the interest of public safety. here is part of a long discussion thread on tesla suspension breakages. this is page 9. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/another-front-suspension-control-arm-failure.114967/page-9 snip *** parasp90d, oct 26, 2019 so this just happened while reversing out of my garage. 75k p90d attached files: 3807ddf2-ad8d-4f31-8d38-4960cd5cf5b1.jpeg 3807ddf2-ad8d-4f31-8d38-4960cd5cf5b1.jpeg c63c8f76-3309-4cb2-bb3e-faae715d59d8.png c63c8f76-3309-4cb2-bb3e-faae715d59d8.png **** the photographs clearly show that the alloy suspension link has snapped into pieces. why has there been no recall? this is outrageous. please investigate this immediately. frightened road user. thank you
Here is a tesla model x in the junkyard. https://www.copart.com/lot/53118179/photos it appears to have burned up in the junkyard presumably because the battery pack was damaged in a crash and it decided to wait a while before self combusting. both back wheels have snapped off despite there being no significant impact to that part of the car. the broken suspension arm from one of the back wheels has been placed on the passenger seat ( see attached photograph) and is still recognizable despite the fire. there have been hundreds of cases of tesla suspension breakages both from owners and from concerned citizens. rather than investigating the cause of these failures mr. elon musk has called the complaints "fraudulent" and the complainant "unhinged" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/741411531582115841?lang=en "of greater concern: 37 of 40 suspension complaints to nhtsa were fraudulent, i.e. false location or vehicle identification numbers were used. would seem to indicate that one or more people sought to create the false impression of a safety issue where none existed. q is why?" it is now more than 3 years on. more lives have been lost. ...
Another tesla in the junkyard... https://www.copart.com/lot/53021189/photos the back wheel has gone whompy. it is impossible that the whompyness was caused by a collision because the wheel and tire are undamaged. it is a certainty that the damage to the side of the car was caused by loss of control after the rear suspension snapped and caused the car to go out of control. how many more tesla crashes caused by these failures do you need before you take action??? good grief! vexed citizen etc.
Left front suspension fore link cracked and fell off. vehicle was only backing up out of garage and steering wheel was turned to the left when a loud crack was heard from under the vehicle. the back up speed was only 1-2 mph. luckily, i was still in my driveway taking my kids to school. i can't imagine what the outcome would have been if it broken 5 minutes later on the highway with the kids inside the car.
The control arm broke while backing out of parking space. i did not run over anything when it happened. when i pulled back forward the front end lifted up. i hate to think what could have happened at high speed,
Control arm disconnected while backing out of garage. there appear to be at least 5 other related complaints. if this had happened at high speed, the car would have been totaled.
Front right side (passenger) wheel dislodged from suspension arm.it happened while i was reversing from a parking.