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2021 TESLA MODEL Y — Complaint #2034719

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NHTSA Complaint about WHEELS filed October 23, 2024

NHTSA complaint #2034719 (ODI reference 11621421) concerns a 2021 TESLA MODEL Y and was filed on October 23, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 20, 2024. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as wheels, 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 Y cohort independently describe similar wheels 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 2021 TESLA MODEL Y shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2021 TESLA MODEL Y
Component
WHEELS
State
California

Complaint Description

I was driving into a parking lot and heard a loud bang. I get out of my car and see that the metal that connects the tire to the car came down and screws came out. It is not drivable. I know this is not something normal and shouldn't happen. This is very dangerous and I am grateful I wasn't on the freeway when it happened. I was not involved in any collision and i did not hit anything. This simply happened on its own

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2034719
ODI Number 11621421
Date Filed October 23, 2024
Failure Date October 20, 2024
VIN 5YJYGAEE2MF

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.