Complaint volume
811 consumer-submitted complaints are matched to this model year. Treat the count as a research signal, then read the actual summaries for repeated symptoms.
Complaint records
2022 Tesla Model Y Complaints
811 consumer-submitted complaints on record for the 2022 Tesla Model Y, grouped by component category.
811 Total complaints
76 Crash reports
8 Fire reports
32 Injury reports
Complaint data reflects consumer-submitted reports. A complaint is not proof
of a defect, recall, or manufacturer fault. Enriched severity fields come
from official bulk records when the complaint can be matched by ODI number.
Buyer interpretation
How to use these complaints before buying
Complaint records are most useful when they turn into inspection points, seller questions, and comparison checks against nearby model years.
Pattern to inspect
The most common categories are forward collision avoidance, vehicle speed control,forward collision avoidance, unknown or other. Use those categories as a test-drive checklist instead of judging the vehicle from the total count alone.
Severity flags
Enriched records include 76 crash reports, 8 fire reports, 32 injury reports, and 3 fatality reports. These fields come from complaint records and should be read in context.
Mileage clue
Mileage is available on 72 complaints, with an average reported failure mileage of 16,139 miles. Compare that with the mileage on the listing.
Questions to ask the seller
- Have you had any problems related to forward collision avoidance, vehicle speed control,forward collision avoidance, unknown or other?
- Can I see recent maintenance and repair records?
- Has the vehicle ever been towed, involved in a crash, or repaired for the same issue twice?
- Can we also check the recall record for this 2022 Tesla Model Y?
Used-car checklist
Use these complaints before the test drive.
Build a buyer checklist to turn these issues into questions and inspection points.
2022 Tesla Model Y
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How severe are the 2022 Tesla Model Y complaints?
76 Crash
8 Fire
32 Injury
3 Fatality
51 Towed
24 Medical attention
What are the most common 2022 Tesla Model Y complaint categories?
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 224
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 66
UNKNOWN OR OTHER 47
SERVICE BRAKES,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 46
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,SERVICE BRAKES,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 35
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 28
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE,LANE DEPARTURE 21
SERVICE BRAKES 19
SEAT BELTS 17
SUSPENSION 15
811 total complaints on record
Latest complaints
| Date | Component | Summary | Severity | Mileage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,UNKNOWN OR OTHER,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | The car radio keeps freezing on songs insulting me or wont play music at all. After resetting the car while driving for the 937,845,609,238,457,609,823,756,098,273,546,908,723,549,068th time the car started playing "Car Radio" a song about a guys car radio being stolen and the silence making him want to pull the steering wheel and kill himself in a car accident. Shortly after this the car radio played "Kill yourself on a Beach" on my daily trip to McDonalds because it's all I can afford while slowly going bankrupt driving this Tesla on Uber because of all the 'defects' and false advertising if you can even call it anything other than intentional punishment for whistleblowing at this point. Tampering with a witness is a 3rd degree Felony Federal Offense punishable by up to 5 years in Prison with a $5,000 fine. Photo attached. Here's the video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CriYCUMugxg/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| May 2023 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,UNKNOWN OR OTHER,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | After the car couldn't drive me into oncoming traffic and put me out of my misery; I reset the car and then all the safety features were disabled again, the car couldn't see the solid white freshly painted lanes during the middle of the day with perfect visibility. As I approached the red light I demonstrated how the Tesla has no collision warning or assistance enabled although they are features advertised on the car that I paid for. Once again not a coincidence. Tesla has refused or is incapable of repairing this Frankenstein's monster covid Tesla it needs to be Totaled under lemon law. All the windows are from different countries FFS. Also the doors are sagging and scratching the base of the car but Tesla is also completely blind on that one too, go figure! They've also illegally tracked me home and to the grocery store but that's just what I can prove, I'm sure they've broken more privacy laws than just that. From a simple Google search you can discover how Tesla employees use the car footage to spy on you in your own home and pass around nude photos of you on internal company email and messenger apps. Here's a video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrzUvsLtHAe/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| May 2023 | SERVICE BRAKES | Car randomly braking at highway speeds making it dangerous for vehicles traveling behind us. Will randomly brake on a clear day - no hazardous weather or road constructions. Car will have no warning prior to aggressive braking causing confusion and anxiety to the driver and passenger(s). We thought braking was because of rolling hills but it seems to also do it on flat roads. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| May 2023 | FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | Driving in northeast Colorado on I-76 both when traveling east ( on 4/27/23) and west (on 5/1/23). Severe phantom braking with speed dropping 10-15 mph in an instant and objects in the car flying forward as a result. No specific hazards were obvious. These occurred while traveling to and from Haxtun, CO from Lakewood, CO. I am concerned that the car braking in such a severe manner could lead to a collision with vehicles behind me. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| May 2023 | FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | We were driving down I-5 and the highway was clear ahead of us and we were driving with adaptive cruise control. The Tesla suddenly applied harsh brakes without anything ahead of us | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | Within the last week, while driving cross-country on Interstate highways at speeds of 65-75 MPH, car repeatedly (estimate 10-15 times over 1800 miles) experienced “phantom braking,” automatically engaging the brakes in the absence of any sort of hazard whatsoever (no cars or other objects nearby, fortunately; clear, sunny weather). This occurred when Full Self-Driving was engaged and also when cruise control without FSD was engaged. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | Recall No. 23V-085 weeks ago, my car is currently stuck on an old software version (2022.44.30.10) and is not receiving OTA updates from Tesla. I've contacted Tesla's service center and their customer support line multiple times. They've instructed me to email an address (earlyaccess@tesla.com) to be removed from the FSD Beta program which I have done 5+ times. I believe this to be an unreasonable amount of time for them to remedy what should be something simple, and think they should be held accountable for continuing to violate the safety recall violation. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | The car experiences phantom braking very often. a 3-1/2 hour drive this weekend probably happened 8-10 times. Sometimes brakes very hard at speeds of around 70 MPH | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | Phantom breaking on autopilot. Car experienced sudden breaking from approximately 80mph to 30 mph. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | SEAT BELTS | Passenger side rear seatbelt has a faulty latch. Latch will disengage spontaneously. Passenger rear seat belt disengaged. Child safety car seat tipped over. Child encountered minor injuries. | Crash: No Fire: No Injuries: 1 | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | SERVICE BRAKES | The contact owns a 2022 Tesla Model Y. The contact stated while driving 45-50 MPH, a vehicle at a 28 ft. distance from him slammed on the brakes. The contact then depressed the brake pedal but the vehicle failed to respond and crashed into the rear of the other occupied vehicle. The forward collision sensor warning light then illuminated. The air bags did not deploy. There were no injuries sustained. There was no police report filed. The contact was able to continue driving. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 32,000. | Crash: Yes Fire: No | 32,000 |
| Apr 2023 | FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | While using adaptive cruise control on a highway about every 30 miles or so the car would suddenly slam on the brakes. The speed limits on these highways were between 65-75 miles per hour. There was not anything in the road or vehicles in front of our car. It was very scary and distracting for the driver and passengers. If a car or truck had been following closer to our vehicle we could have been in a bad accident. The day was sunny and clear so there wasn’t any weather to have caused these issues or cause the cameras to be blocked. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER,SERVICE BRAKES,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | On March 23rd and most recently the car while on cruise control with no cars infront of me emergency (phantom breaking). | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | STRUCTURE,SEATS,SERVICE BRAKES | I feel Tesla is building cars with non-standard parts and structural issues. 1.I bought a new car and started hearing brakes noises from 6000 miles where as previous car brakes rotors were good till 70k miles. 2.Within 9000 miles, driver side door, A pillar, B pillar, rear seats, display panel has to be either insulated or replaced. I am not sure how this effects car value or vehicle integrity going forward. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | VISIBILITY/WIPER,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | 1. Phantom Braking occurring often and no release date for firmware update. Not sure how to avoid rear end collision even when attentive. 2. Inaccurate speed limits, forward collision warnings, inaccurate green light chimes. 3. Autowiper which is working for other manufacturers over decade is beta in tesla. Previous 5 service center visits confirm as working and in 6th visit they say as beta. This is cheating customers. Using display screen to control frequency is distraction in wet roads. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | Same fatal error I've been reporting for over 6 months and about 10 "OVER THE AIR UPDATES" Yes we all really 'NEEDED' more ways to make fart and poop sounds and open our rainbow LED [XXX] by voice command BUT WHAT ID REALLY LIKE IS FOR LITERALLY ANYONE IN ALL OF AMERICA TO DO THEIR JOB! Maybe if someone would do an investigation into to how much FRAUD there is at literally every level of Tesla from the very top all the way to the pathetic worms at the bottom that somehow find the one vertebrae they have left to continue lying to protect the bank account of a lying megalomaniac. Maybe they would investigate how Tesla vehicles can be used as remote operated drones to kamakazi themselves and kill anyone in the vehicle you don't like or even worse they could hack it thru the radio and use it to crash into literally anyone on the road as described by [XXX] himself and the FBI when asked about drone technology. I mean if [XXX] is allowed to spy on all of planet earth without their consent, freeze their car radio, miss every auto payment for 8 months, keep your car in an overflow lot for 3 days on hidden camera and never work on it once 5 times, make your car stop on the highway 50 time, stop your car from charging at home with your own charger in your own house then why does anyone follow any rules? Why don't we all just go out in the street and rob and kill and rape anyone whos dumb enough to believe that a car can drive itself? Really tho why do I even bother doing any of this everyone on the internet just calls me a stupid, fat, [XXX], [XXX], [XXX] fan,[XXX]. So like why would you EVER buy a Tesla. It's made by SLAVES FOR F SAKE! I'm a slave for Uber, Tesla and Apple. Slavery is real. I lost $28,000 last year doing 1,000 Uber and Lyft rides in an electric car that's supposed to save money on gas but actually costs more than gas if you use a supercharger. Worst purchase in my entire life by far. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cq-10appVGM/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D INFORMATION Redacted PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6). | Crash: Yes Fire: Yes Injuries: 99 Fatalities: 99 Towed Medical attention | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | My Car while on Cruise Control on Freeways on road trips has suddenly braked over 22 times with no cars I front of me. It’s scary and almost causing accidents wirh cars behind me. I am taking car to tesla next week, but this issue has continued over and over | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | The contact owns a 2022 Tesla Model Y. The contact stated while driving approximately 35 MPH the vehicle control display had frozen. The contact said she had no information on the display, the contact said that there was no warning light. The contact stated that when she had started the vehicle her husband's cell phone was synced to the vehicle computer systems and would not recognize her cell phone. The contact stated that when the control screen froze her husband's phone was still showing as linked to the computer system. The contact had not taken the vehicle to a local dealer. The vehicle was not diagnosed and had not been repaired. The manufacturer had been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 20,000. | Crash: No Fire: No | 20,000 |
| Apr 2023 | FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | Car slamming on breaks multiples times while in cruise control. No obstacles ahead and we could have been rear ended | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | SERVICE BRAKES,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | Car making sudden braking moves while on trip using cruise control. I tried several different lanes and actions but braking persisted and cruise control discontinued. No damage or injury. Tesla has known phantom braking problem braking. We were at risk to be rear ended. I will contact Tesla next. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | AIR BAGS | The contact owns a 2022 Tesla Model Y. The contact stated that the front passenger’s side seat was not sensing his wife seated in the seat due to her weight. The contact stated that his wife was 102 lbs. which was not recognized by the occupant detection system. The contact stated the front passenger air bag off warning light was illuminated. The contact took the vehicle to the local dealer, where it was diagnosed with needing the front passenger’s side seat to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired but continued to experience the failure. The contact took the vehicle back to the local dealer but was unable to determine there was a failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer had been informed of the failure and was informed the minimum weight was 100 lbs. The failure mileage was approximately 50. | Crash: No Fire: No | 50 |
| Apr 2023 | FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | I experience three incidents of phantom braking while on a recent trip. The car was on Autopilot (I do not have FSD), on an open road with zero cars in sight. Two were incidents where the car went from 69 MPH to 50 MPH for no reason. The third was even more severe when the car went to 30 MPH from 70 MPH. The incident was reported to Tesla and their response after diagnosing remotely is as follows: "There are no hardware issues with your car. At the times provided your vehicle detected another vehicle in the lane which was the source of the slow down. There are known limitations of Autopilot at this time. The performance of Autopilot will be improved over time. Currently, Autopilot may react more conservatively than a human driver in situations where it is thought an object may be entering your vehicle’s path. It is more desirable to have a false positive than a false negative.” I want to reiterate once again there were ZERO cars in sight when this happened. Dates for these events were on March 31, 2023 and April 1, 2023. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | In a 1 minute clip I captured how the Tesla constantly misses collision warnings and/or assistance while all safety features are turned on because the car misses the first collision warning and then goes off early on the second scenario with the same car and driver in front of my passenger and I. It's dangerously inconsistent and this is the third passenger on Lyft this week this has happened to and the passenger verified as a witness to the event in each example without any sort of coercion. Without the LiDAR the Tesla makes constant mis-judgements it never should have been removed. Last night I traveled down 429 West and had the same issue with the car reducing to 0mph like it has been for several months but this time I didn't let the car slow down all the way before canceling and leaving Tesla a nice explanation in my best Forrest Gump impression soundtrack was playing. I said "Life is like Tesla FSD, you never know if your cars gonna stop on the highway". What's the point in the voice recording if the error isn't corrected? To make me FEEL like something is being done? Everyone in person and online keeps telling me to just sell the car. Well I would if I could afford to but now I'm stuck between paying my overpriced car bill or driving the overpriced car that keeps failing at its job and almost causing tons of accidents. Thank God I have a dashcam otherwise I bet Tesla would say I'm drunk or something to cover their own butts! Hate to break it to ya but I don't drink that's all just bad programming and sensors. You can see once again the person behind us has to switch lanes last second to avoid rear ending us. I wonder all day every day for the last year or so if anyone actually reads these countless reports I've filed or if they're just another corrupt official on the Elon Musk payroll lol. https://drive.google.com/file/d/18br6n1pK0x3sViSs-q8_aQDvj26n3JHO/view?usp=share_link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVhSTKwR6BaQ7gQV8Q6CjzYHpau2zvBs/view?usp=share_link | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | SEAT BELTS | Rear passenger middle seat buckle was defective- just replaced by Tesla. Seatbelt buckle was stuck and after unlatching, was unable to get it back in; there was a 4 year old in a booster seat at the time of incident. Left rear passenger seatbelt may have also unlatched by itself last week while front facing booster seat was strapped in using the seatbelt. Had to reinstall car seat with latch, despite child exceeding 40lb. limit for latch use (Diono 3XRT). | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Apr 2023 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | Here's front and rear with audio of the Tesla failing to trigger a collision warning or assistance with passengers in the car during a Lyft ride. There should be a loud beep paired with some braking assistance but most of the time neither work or they work when they shouldn't. If my car actually got the miles range I paid for and actually charged as fast as they advertise I wouldn't be at home filling out these reports. Squeaky wheel gets the grease, so I squeak, squeak, squeak! https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Hvhf2eT8--XljxWKTaRqxqsqQYvdzp8/view?usp=share_link https://drive.google.com/file/d/13onkPVSEXT4OJxitVmckx5fRzT_yx17d/view?usp=share_link | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |