Model x just arrived in the junkyard. https://www.copart.com/lot/61359249/photos front end smashed in. back wheel whompy. i bet you a signed dollar that whomy wheel was the cause of the crash and not the result of it. there is no impact to that part of the car and the wheel and tire are undamaged. how much longer are you going to wait before you recall these death-traps? there is even a tsb that admits the suspension links are fragile and "may cause excess camber. and yet elon musk persists with his "safest car in the world" nonsense and calls suspension complaints "fraudulent" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/741411531582115841?lang=en please recall these dangerous cars. thank you. keef
Yet another model x in the junkyard with a collapsed suspension and an extremely whompy wheel. https://www.copart.com/lot/45471269/photos i don't think i need to say any more,,, just look at the photos. this is just beyond belief. any normal manufacturer would have already issued a recall. but......elon musk.
Please note that i have had to use the vin of another wrecked tesla to file this complaint since the auction site is missing that information. the car that i wish to complain about is this one https://www.copart.com/lot/55677079/photos the front wheel suspension and drive shaft have fallen off. no air-bags deployed. no impact damage. just a simple case of snap-off wheels. this is getting worse and worse. what does it take for you to launch an investigation? are you going to wait until a tesla hits a school bus and kills a dozen children. this is just nuts. please do something. regards. keef
Here is a tesla model x in the junkyard. https://www.copart.com/lot/55677079/photos the auction site has not provided the vin details so i have used the vin of another wreck so that i can file the report. the car in question is still available for inspection at copart so it would be very easy for you to inspect. the car has not been in a collion. no air-bags have deployed and there is virtually no damage to the bodywork. all of the suspension and steering linkages have snapped and the wheel is stashed in the frunk. the wheel and tire are undamaged.which means that the suspension did not snap off due to an impact, it simply fell to bits. this is not a rare event for a tesla. tesla suspensions are as weak as american beer. please investigate. thank you. honest citizen.
2018 model x in the junkyard. has not been in a crash, completely undamaged except for the back wheel jammed up in the wheel-well and gone whompy. tesla tsb advises that certain early model years may have weak suspension links that may fail and cause "excessive camber" but they claim this is not a safety issue! this is a late model car which should have the new stronger links. how in the world can they possibly claim this is not a safety issue? please issue a mandatory recall before more people get killed. thank you. keef wivaneff
Here is a 2018 model x in the junkyard. https://www.copart.com/lot/61359249/photos the front of it is badly smashed in and all of the front end damage can be explained as being the result of the crash. but! why is the back wheel whompy? it is highly likely that the back wheel going spontaneously whompy caused the crash. surely this is blindingly obvious. please investigate thank you. keef
This is another complaint about the fragile suspension components on teslas. i have has to use the vin of another wrecked tesla because the auction listing of the car in question does not provide the number. here is a tesla for sale by the insurer. https://www.copart.com/lot/52625009/photos close up photographs show that almost every component of the rear suspension has snapped in half. the car has not suffered an impact that would account for the damage. one possible explanation is that when a tesla has a glitch or logic lockup causing full acceleration then the traction control applies the brake on the spinning wheel. the suspension is too weak to take the massive torque and gets wrenched off. it seems highly probable that this scenario has caused several fatal crashes. unintended acceleration, crash, inferno. i petition nhtsa to launch an investigation.
It happened at 7/21/2019, 1pm. the place is a parking lot in front of a store. i was driving my tesla x. before i reached there, i was already in that parking lots for several minutes; the speed was very low, about 3 miles/hour. when i found the store, i wanted to turn left and park next to a car in front of the store. at that time, i loosed the accelerator panel. since my tesla has the default regenerative brake setting, the car speed is almost zero. as usual, i touched a little bit of the accelerator panel to park into the parking space. however, the tesla had a big acceleration during the turn. i realized something was wrong, then elevated my feet and touched nothing at that time. my tesla still forwarded and jumped the curb and hit the concrete garbage bin in front of the store. after tesla crashed the concrete garbage bin, it still has acceleration and moved forward. it scratched a car, which was parking in the next parking space, then moved forward until it hit the wall of store. i'm 100% sure my feet touched nothing before my tesla jumped the curb.
This is another complaint about dangerously weak suspension ball joints that are used in all models of tesla cars. here is a model x with the exact same problem of snapped ball joint stems that was shown in the model 3 complaint i filled an hour ago. here it is. https://www.copart.com/lot/43335999/photos photo of busted balls attached. please issue an immediate recall. thank you.
Most tesla model x owners are complaining of an acceleration shudder that happens due to a halfshaft alignment design flaw widely acknowledged by all tesla service centers. when it gets worse due to inaction / lack of recall by tesla, serious catastrophic failure can occur while car is in motion. wide spread problem. my issue was first noticed with less than 1,500 miles. service centers seem to have stopped replacing front end half shafts until redesign is done. but no one knows if or when that might happen. tesla needs oversight in this area. google "tesla acceleration shudder model x" and you can read about it from hundreds of owners.