2021 TESLA MODEL Y — Complaint #2177041
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION filed February 15, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2177041 (ODI reference 11718136) concerns a 2021 TESLA MODEL Y and was filed on February 15, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 14, 2026. The report was geocoded to Arizona based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension, 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 suspension 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.
Complaint Description
The upper control arm bolt came loose on its own.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2177041 |
| ODI Number | 11718136 |
| Date Filed | February 15, 2026 |
| Failure Date | February 14, 2026 |
| VIN | 5YJYGDEE9MF |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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