Tesla Repair Issues

This cluster focuses on Tesla vehicles' quality problems, reliability concerns, and repair challenges, including long service times, parts shortages, build defects, and difficulties at non-Tesla shops. Users share anecdotes, cite studies like J.D. Power and Consumer Reports, and debate Tesla's service model versus traditional automakers.

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Sample Comments

seem_2211 May 13, 2019 View on HN

A worrying trend. Especially considering Tesla seem to take months to fix even basic fender bender problems.

kramerger Mar 8, 2023 View on HN

Teslas extreme quality problems is well documented.This should not come as a surprise to you guys.https://insideevs.com/news/549130/consumerreports-tesla-reli...

CalRobert Mar 6, 2016 View on HN

The article discusses the difficulty of servicing a Tesla at length. Perhaps you should read it?

lazyjones Jul 15, 2020 View on HN

Necessary info because poor media are summarizing this incorrectly as "reliability":> Tesla’s issues are primarily with production and things such as paint imperfections and poor fit of body panels, according to J.D. Powerhttps://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/24/tesla-lags-auto-industry-in-...

vorticalbox Aug 3, 2023 View on HN

That's likely because it's a hardware issue, nothing really for tesla to do.

gnabgib Apr 16, 2025 View on HN

Original source: Tesla accused of using sneaky tactic to dodge car repairs (22 points, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674888

QuiEgo Nov 27, 2025 View on HN

Tesla has its problems (between 2019 and 2024 the auto headlights and auto wipers were borderline unusable, now they are merely tolerable, and autopilot is a whole story on it's own), but maintenance is not one of Tesla's issues.Useable, human-readable errors in the app/touch screen (the car self diagnosed it's 12V battery problem and told me to call a tech) and mobile service is just an awesome experience.

abpavel Jun 10, 2016 View on HN

Material science lifecycles are measured in decades. Just because you "haven't seen it before" does not mean it can't happen. It means you're not testing well enough, or that your data sample is not good enough. Noone is clairvoyant, and excuses such as "dirt" and "70000 miles" don't make you either. Why automatically attack the victim? Is it not remotely possible, that the fault lies with Tesla?

shepherdjerred Dec 21, 2023 View on HN

Why not? Has Tesla had similar incidents?

mschild May 26, 2023 View on HN

And yet they seem to have massive issueshttps://www.thedrive.com/news/44068/over-10-percent-of-tesla...