2024 Tesla Model 3 problems
Owners have filed 346 complaints about the 2024 Tesla Model 3 with NHTSA. Forward collision avoidance accounts for 18.5% of them, narrowly the most common, ahead of electrical system at 13.3%. A further 20.5% were filed without a specific system named.
Complaints346
Crashes58
Fires3
Injuries45
Deaths0
What owners report breaking
Unknown or other 20.5% · 71
Forward collision avoidance 18.5% · 64
Electrical system 13.3% · 46
Steering 10.7% · 37
Exterior lighting 8.1% · 28
Vehicle speed control 5.8% · 20
Lane departure 5.5% · 19
Air bags 2.3% · 8
Severity
Of those complaints, 58 describe a crash, 3 describe a fire and 45 report an injury.
Reading the numbers
Across the 8 model years of the Tesla Model 3 in this data, 2024 draws comparatively few complaints; 2018 is the outlier year.
The median odometer reading at the time of complaint was 13,816 miles.
In owners' own words
While driving with FSD engaged and set to standard profile, FSD accelerated to 76mph in a 55 zone. This is on software version 14.1.4. Unfortunately this new update no longer allows you to set your speed while using FSD, you can only select sloth, chill, standard, hurry, or mad max. Forward collision avoidance
Using cruise control to go with the flow of traffic the vehicle will slow down for any random flashing lights far away or vehicle in next lane causing all vehicles to slow down unnecessarily. FSD and beta programming does not belong in driver set cruise control. Forward collision avoidance
Car randomly breaks or swerves when using cruise control. When there is nothing ahead of me have called tesla and been told it is called phantom breaking and that it is normal happens multiple times a day, almost causes collisions. Very dangerous. Forward collision avoidance
Verbatim from NHTSA filings. Complaints are unverified owner reports.
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Other Tesla Model 3 years
2019 1,069 complaints · 21.6% forward collision avoidance 2020 772 complaints · 27.8% forward collision avoidance 2021 1,249 complaints · 47.6% forward collision avoidance 2022 1,511 complaints · 52.3% forward collision avoidance 2023 749 complaints · 32.4% forward collision avoidance 2025 218 complaints · 16.1% forward collision avoidance