Tesla — what breaks, engine by engine
5 models · 11,654 complaints
What Tesla complaints are about
Share of component mentions across every Tesla in the database, with the all-vehicle average below it. Shares can be compared — raw complaint counts between brands cannot, because counts track sales volume.
Tesla
All vehicles
Transmission & drivetrainEngineBrakesElectricalSteeringBody & structureFuel systemEverything else
How often Tesla complaints involve a fire, crash or injury
Share of this brand's complaints; the vertical mark is the all-vehicle average. Complaints are owner-reported and skew toward alarming problems — and toward vehicles under active recall attention, which can inflate a brand mid-campaign.
Fire0.7%
Crash11.2%
Injury4.1%
all vehicles — Fire 1.1% · Crash 4.4% · Injury 2.6%