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Vehicle history — accidents, title & owners
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5YJSA1H20EF••••••2014 Tesla MODEL S
That is about average for the 2014 Tesla MODEL S — 8 complaints per build across 43 builds.
6on this build
345on the model
43builds in total
1involved a crash
Most reportedElectrical System 3Steering 2Fuel/propulsion System 2Engine 2
What owners of this build wrote
SuspensioncrashNov 2016
Note: refiling this complaint as it was mistakenly filed against "evergreen tesla" here is yet another tesla in the junkyard with collapsed suspension. Https://m.iaai.com/vehicledetenc.aspx?auctionid=0&itemid=23632672&rowid=25&pagesource=vehicleresults there is hardly a scratch…
SteeringAug 2023
The rear motor (drive unit) has gone out on this car twice in the last four years. I purchased it after it was last repaired. It most recently went out on 08/04/2023. When it went out two days ago it had less than 30,000 miles on it. This car has a motor on both the front and…
Electrical SystemJun 2020
The mcu stopped working, I'm lead to believe based on forums I've read on, this is due to the emmc failing due to tesla having a design flaw and also having excessive amount of unnecessary logging to the chip
Electrical SystemJun 2019
The car has lost a large amount of charging speed. Tesla has informed me multiple times there is nothing wrong when I know for a fact the charge speed has dropped an average of 10kw from when I first bought it. My main marker was at 5p% the car would be at 72kw and now after a…
Electrical SystemMay 2019
Re: NHTSA action number: dp19005 - investigation subject : battery management software updates - vehicle had sudden loss of battery capacity and charging velocity after software update in may 2019. This has continued with a roughly 15% reduction in the kwh rating of the battery…
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Decoded via NHTSA vPIC. Recalls, complaints and safety from NHTSA; MPG from EPA fueleconomy.gov. Full history reports from our partner. VIN 5YJSA1H20EFP64358 · decoded Oct 2026. — ForCar Reviewed by Denis Kataev, founder of ForCar.