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2016 Tesla Model S body & structure problems

Owners reported body & structure problems in 30 complaints for the 2016 Tesla Model S, 3% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
30 3% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
26,000 miles 13 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
6 and 0
Injuries and deaths
2 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When body & structure problems show up

Body & structure complaints by mileage, 2016 Tesla Model S Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 26,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 4 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 3 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 3 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 1 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 1 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 0 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 0 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 1 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 0 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 26,000 miles
Based on 13 complaints that include mileage. 77% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles4
20k to 40k miles3
40k to 60k miles3
60k to 80k miles1
80k to 100k miles1
100k to 120k miles0
120k to 140k miles0
140k to 160k miles1
160k to 180k miles0
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 13 body & structure complaints that report mileage, the median is about 26,000 miles, and 77% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 6 crashes, 2 injuries.

What owners wrote

Door/Door Handle. Puts my children at risk, as when I place car in park, door opens on it's own. With or Without someone sitting there. Drivers side rear door. Not the first time this has happened. Tesla blames their self-extending door handles. This will happen if I am outside the vehicle and unlock it. Door opens, it also happens if we are driving, and I put the vehicle in PARK. When the door handles extend, the door opens.

June 2021 Injury

Please see the attached report I filed on safer car.gove and the letter I wrote to tesla. I have not got response to any of those.. .this problem happened after I had successfully turned the car 90 degree to park headon. The car had to be at a very low speed at that time. Then when I as just a couple of feet from the curb, the car accelerated out of control. If you get the report from tesla, you will find that car could not have accelerated this fast even if I had pressed the accelerator pedal by mistake.

Reported at 26,000 miles, August 2019 Crash

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