2024 TESLA MODEL 3 — Complaint #2047408
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TURN SIGNAL filed December 11, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2047408 (ODI reference 11630197) concerns a 2024 TESLA MODEL 3 and was filed on December 11, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 17, 2024. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:turn signal, 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 3 cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting:turn signal 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 2024 TESLA MODEL 3 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The buttons on the steering wheel stick and do not work. These include the turn signals and also bright lights and windshield wipers. They stick on my car, and I am renting a 2024 model 3 that they stick on as well. Itâs not possible to signal a turn or wipe the windshield when this happens, which is a safety issue.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2047408 |
| ODI Number | 11630197 |
| Date Filed | December 11, 2024 |
| Failure Date | October 17, 2024 |
| VIN | 5YJ3E1ET6RF |
Similar EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TURN SIGNAL Complaints for 2024 TESLA MODEL 3
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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