2023 Tesla Model Y problems
Owners have filed 2,066 complaints about the 2023 Tesla Model Y with NHTSA. Forward collision avoidance accounts for 30.7% of them, far more than any other system, ahead of steering at 10.4%.
Complaints2,066
Crashes333
Fires9
Injuries172
Deaths1
What owners report breaking
Forward collision avoidance 30.7% · 634
Steering 10.4% · 215
Vehicle speed control 8.1% · 167
Unknown or other 7.4% · 153
Service brakes 7.3% · 151
Suspension 6.3% · 131
Electrical system 6.0% · 124
Lane departure 4.6% · 96
Severity
Of those complaints, 333 describe a crash, 9 describe a fire, 172 report an injury and 1 report a death.
Reading the numbers
Across the 7 model years of the Tesla Model Y in this data, 2023 draws the most complaints of any of them.
Filing volume has held steady, 1082 in the last three years against 984 in the three before.
The median odometer reading at the time of complaint was 5,000 miles.
In owners' own words
Yesterday updated Tesla car SoftWare version with 2023.26.7. Today, I am going to work with AutoPilot mode. Traffic was slowed down and stopped and car should apply the break automatically. However it didn't apply the break or slow down the Vehicle. I forcefully applied the break still car didn't stop fully and collided with in front of the car. I strongly believe, there was a bug in. new software version 2023.26.7 Forward collision avoidance
While driving on the freeway at a speed of 72 MPH thr speed limit was 75 MPH used cruse control no vehicles are onfront of me and it did a sudden brake and went to 0 luckily escaped from life threat behind me other vehicle was their that driver handled well if not it would have effected worse. Happend couple of time since I was new Tesla I thought I was not handling properly serious life threat issue scared to drive Forward collision avoidance
Car braked aggressively and unexpectedly on highway in full traffic with autopilot (lane keeping cruise control) for no reason. Car in front was over 10 car lengths away and not slowing. Almost caused collision with car behind me but I took control immediately and hit accelerator. Night time driving - approximately 530pm on route 64/1 headed west in Raleigh nc. My car is âvision onlyâ. Extremely unsafe. Forward collision avoidance
Verbatim from NHTSA filings. Complaints are unverified owner reports.
Safety recalls
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Other Tesla Model Y years
2020 502 complaints · 27.7% forward collision avoidance 2021 2,042 complaints · 41.8% forward collision avoidance 2022 1,619 complaints · 43.1% forward collision avoidance 2024 611 complaints · 28.6% forward collision avoidance 2025 211 complaints · 28.9% forward collision avoidance 2026 690 complaints · 23.0% forward collision avoidance