Tesla Complaints

Owners have filed 5,004 complaints with NHTSA against 5 Tesla models in our index, covering model years 2017 to 2025. 520 of those reports describe a crash.

The problem areas owners report most often across Tesla vehicles are other (1,780), brakes (615) and electrical (379). A high count on a widely sold model is not by itself evidence of a defect — complaints scale with how many cars are on the road, and NHTSA publishes them unverified, as filed.

The most-reported single model year here is the 2018 Tesla Model 3, with 984 complaints, 100 of them citing a crash. Open any model year below for the individual reports and the components involved.