2012 TESLA MODEL S — Complaint #1672108
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NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL filed June 25, 2020
NHTSA complaint #1672108 (ODI reference 11330877) concerns a 2012 TESLA MODEL S and was filed on June 25, 2020. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 15, 2020. The vehicle had 47,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:electrical, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same TESLA MODEL S cohort independently describe similar equipment:electrical failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2012 TESLA MODEL S shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
THE VEHICLE'S MAIN DISPLAY, WHICH SHOWS THE BACKUP CAMERA, FREEZES/LOCKS WHEN TURNING ON THE VEHICLE. THE ERROR MESSAGE ON THE DRIVERS DISPLAY IS THAT THE LARGE DISPLAY IS "UNRESPONSIVE". THEN, WHEN RESTARTING THE DISPLAY'S OPERATING SYSTEM (BY HOLDING THE TWO BUTTONS DOWN ON THE CAR'S STEERING WHEEL), THE SYSTEM REBOOTS AND THE DISPLAY GOES PERMANENTLY BLANK UNTIL THE VEHICLE IS PARKED, THE VEHICLE POWERS OFF. WHEN STARTING THE VEHICLE FOR A SECOND TIME, THE SAME ISSUE OCCURS. SO I NO LONGER HAVE A BACKUP CAMERA. GIVEN MY MODEL S YEAR DOES NOT HAVE ANY SENSORS OTHER THAN THE VISUAL BACKUP CAMERA, I AM MISSING MY SAFEST METHOD TO BACKUP. I AM ALSO MISSING CONTROLS TO CHARGE MY VEHICLE, MAP MY ROUTING, AND ALL OTHER APPLICATIONS THAT THE VEHICLE HAS. THERE ARE NO ISSUE DRIVING THE VEHICLE. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1672108 |
| ODI Number | 11330877 |
| Date Filed | June 25, 2020 |
| Failure Date | June 15, 2020 |
| VIN | 5YJSA1DP9CF |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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