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Tesla Model S repairs by problem area
Engine (14%)
Transmission and Drivetrain (3%)
Brakes and Traction Control (2%)
Suspension and Steering (7%)
Electrical and Air Conditioning (41%)
Paint, Rust, Leaks, Rattles, and Trim (22%)
Other (10%)
Chart based on 882 repairs.
Tesla Model S other repair cost distribution
$2500+ (0%)
$1000 - $2499 (4%)
$500 - $999 (5%)
$100 - $499 (24%)
< $100 (66%)
Chart based on 74 repair trips. The repair cost chart excludes repairs made under warranty, do-it-yourself repairs, and repair trips that include maintenance.
2017 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
600-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic AWD
| 2000 mi | Seatbelt assembly replaced |
| 27000 mi | Driver's door handle broke & needed to be replaced. |
2017 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
417-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic AWD
| 97000 mi US $300 |
Door handle wasn’t working. |
2016.5 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
417-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic AWD
| 20000 mi US $1100 |
Tires were in need of replacement. Tires needed to be replaced after normal wear and tear. Heavy car and regenerative braking contributed to the need to replace earlier than other cars. |
| 58668 mi US $232 |
Sliding console door was not staying locked. Replaced console. |
| 61000 mi US $300 |
Door handle replacement |
2016.5 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
328-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic AWD
| 8900 mi | Both front seatbacks loose. Seat frames replaced. |
| 40000 mi US $308 |
Door handle was replaced on rear driver side passenger door. |
| 46700 mi | Door handle was squeaking, but had been replaced fairly recently so the adjusted it under warranty. |
| 4000 mi | Wiper fluid spray occurred in a poor location. |
2016.5 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
315-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic RWD
| 71000 mi US $335 |
Door handle on drivers side would not present. |
2016 Tesla Model S 4-door
Engine not specified
| 35000 mi | Just the replacement of a broken center console lid spring that was delayed in coming. |
| 40000 mi | The door for the charging port would not open manually. |
| 78000 mi US $304 |
Driver door handle did not function. Would not open properly. |
2015.5 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
417-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic AWD
| 1500 mi | Driver door handle intermittently misbehaved, replaced |
2015.5 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
328-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic AWD
| 20200 mi | Front trunk washer fluid cable scraping against body when opening front trunk. Added padding to prevent scraping. Driver seat has a lot of play when hard acceleration or braking -- seat rocks. |
2015 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
463-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic AWD
| 26000 mi | Door handles would not operate correctly. Both driver side handles replaced under warranty |
| 47000 mi US $100 |
Passenger front door handle would not properly present for opening, handle mechanism repaired. |
| 16000 mi US $300 |
rear trunk would not completely close. |
2015 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
422-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic AWD
| 11800 mi | Passenger seat has limited travel forward / backwards. They have ordered a new seat and will replace after parts are received. |
| 33000 mi | Later in March the trunk liftgate would not open and car displayed liftgate as open. Liftgate power release and cinch actuator replaced. |
| 57000 mi | Driver side front door handle would not present. Gear was broken internally. Tesla Ranger replaced door handle assembly on-site in the parking garage of my workplace. Part and labor was covered under warranty. |
| 16700 mi | Rear liftgate (trunk lid) would not open even though sensors indicated it was already open. Replaced rear liftgate actuator and liftgate trim piece. |
| 28543 mi US $500 |
Windshield replacement due to crack too large to be repaired. As far as I know this was a rock strike. None of us witnessed the actual impact. It seems to have hit the windshield below the level of the dashboard so it wasn't seen until the crack grew upwards far enough that we could see it from inside the car. |
| 78351 mi US $200 |
Rear liftgate latch jammed. Liftgate latch and cinch actuator were replaced. Covered by extended warranty; amount paid was the deductable. |
| 92000 mi US $200 |
Front driver and passenger side door handles would not extend. Replaced with new version 3.0 of door handle modules, under extended warranty. |
| 7300 mi | Rear door handle had intermittent problems, was adjusted. |
| 10700 mi | Seat belt - sometimes locked |
| 53000 mi US $320 |
Driver side auto-retracting door handle stopped working |
| 68820 mi C $900 |
rear door handle replacement |
| 17500 mi | Ranger replaced drivers seat at my house for excessive rocking and clicking on bumpy roads. |
| 49000 mi US $170 |
Rear passenger door handle failed to present. This is the last of all 4 door handles I have had to get fixed. Two handles fixed under warranty, two under extended warranty, where I pay $200 deductible and each repair was less than that. |
2015 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
362-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic RWD
| 7000 mi | Liftgate Latch replacement |
| 31489 mi | Front trunk/hood would always pop up when the release was commanded, but sometimes couldn't be lifted. You'd have to command it to release again at the same time as you pushed or pulled the partially-open hood. Replaced both hood latches. Lug nuts were distorted from normal use (impact wrench), making it hard to slide a socket over them. Replaced all lug nuts with improved parts. |
| 72124 mi US $220 |
Left rear door outer handle would not present (pop out). Could hear the door handle motor running continuously. The paddle gear had broken. Technician replaced paddle gear. |
| 83300 mi US $157 |
Left front door handle didn't present (pop out) when approaching the vehicle. Mobile service technician came out and rebuilt the door handle. |
| 86000 mi | Front right door handle makes an ominous squeaking/creaking noise when it retracts. Still works ok for now, though. I'll just wait until it fails. |
| 92600 mi US $610 |
Right front door handle fails to present. Replaced the door handle with the current generation design. Left rear door handle presents but intermittently doesn't trigger the latch to release when pulled. Replaced the door handle with the current generation design. |
| 39000 mi | Front trunk lid did not unlatch reliably. |
2015 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
329-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic AWD
| 76000 mi US $300 |
The door handle(s) on the driver’s door and front passenger door both failed. These are known problems, with two failure modes. The first common failure is the wires connected to the micro switches. The second common failure is the small gear that breaks. |
| 71000 mi US $30 |
Door handle. Driver's door. Gear broken |
| 90000 mi US $6 |
Door handle - passenger front. Replaced gear |
| 50000 mi | rear passenger door handle failure. replaced door handle assembly |
| 71000 mi US $600 |
Driver side rear door handle replacement |
| 80000 mi US $5 |
Passenger door handle paddle gear broke. Removed door handle assembly and replaced broken paddle gear. |
| 24500 mi | Rear left door handle broke and would not open. Tesla repaired for free. |
| 44000 mi | Passenger left door handle replaced after sticking in the retracted position. |
| 11400 mi | When window was rolled down it would come back up with black tar-like substance. There was a cover that had fallen off that blocked the lubrication from the window. |
2015 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
302-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic RWD
| 80000 mi US $160 |
Lug Nuts on all four tires required replacing and proper torque. During tire replacement over the preceding months (more than $300 per tire), one of the shops had mentioned to me that the vehicle had "swollen lug nuts". I took the vehicle back to Tesla and they performed the replacement at a fee for the parts and labor. |
2014.5 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
463-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic AWD
| 25700 mi | Front Driver's Seat Made Clicking sound |
| 29000 mi | Front Driver's Seat Replaced |
| 54000 mi | Rear hatch release |
2014 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
416-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic RWD
| 37000 mi | Driver's door handle failed. Paddle gear replaced. |
| 38022 mi | Front passenger door handle failed to extend (paddle gear). |
2014 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
362-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic RWD
| 80000 mi US $70 |
Right rear door handle would not present. Paddle gear was broken. I replaced it with an aftermarket part, instead of same $2 part from Tesla. |
| 36000 mi | Outside, front passenger door would only open if you pulled towards the right side of the handle. They adjusted the sensor and that fixed it. |
| 2360 mi | Charge port door sticky |
| 40320 mi | The button the UMC cable fails to open the charge port door on the vehicle. Confirmed customer issue, button not working. Replace cable. |
2014 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
302-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic RWD
| 57040 mi | Replaced swollen lug nuts. |
| 63240 mi | Hood latch broke during the last service from Tesla mobile. He replaced the latch. |
2013 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
416-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic RWD
| 12400 mi | Driver's seat was loose, noticable movement and clunking noise on harder acceleration and braking. Replaced seat base and lower frame assembly. |
| 6900 mi | Creaking noise when turning at low speeds. Fixed by tightening sub frame bolts. |
| 28000 mi | Magnet holding charge port door closed detached. Service replaced charge port door. |
| 8600 mi | Window washer need adjustment. |
| 34000 mi | Front of tire housing missing |
| 8000 mi | Rear window dropped into door panel |
| 50000 mi | Door handle required replacement. Wasn't opening door |
| 33000 mi | Charge port door wouldn't open ~20% of the time. Charge port and door were replaced. |
| 46000 mi US $1700 |
right front passenger door sags out of alignment over time |
| 48500 mi US $918 |
rear right window will not stay rolled up and makes grinding noise when operating |
| 60500 mi US $200 |
door handle failed to retract and stopped opening the door |
| 18100 mi | Windshield wipers "clicked" when wiping. Parts replaced and it's now fine. |
| 31824 mi | Retractible door handle problem. |
2013 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
362-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic RWD
| 73780 mi | Rear hatch strut replacement. Was rusting out at connection point. New strut works sometimes, but periodically car will fail to auto close. Manual open close works. |
| 4200 mi | Front trunk latch replaced due to corrosion |
| 90000 mi US $300 |
Replaced window regulator $300 |
| 51200 mi US $200 |
Battery air intake baffle replaced. |
| 47000 mi | Replaced my nav. Screen had small bubbles at top of screen. Warranty no cost. |
2013 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
302-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic RWD
| 17000 mi | Rear door would spontaneously open. Tesla Ranger came day after reported and replaced all 4 door handles |
| 26000 mi | Windshield developed a non-impact stress fracture along the mid driver's side. Repaired as warranty item. |
| 28000 mi | Optional underbody protection added |
| 23300 mi | Door handle making slight grinding noise |
| 91000 mi US $1000 |
Cracked windshield was replaced. |
2012 Tesla Model S 4dr Hatch
416-horsepower Electric 1-speed automatic RWD
| 3415 mi | replaced door handle |
| 24059 mi | new design funk latch |
| 60000 mi | Bracket for battery cover fell off because it was not properly installed. |
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