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2018 Tesla Model X body & structure problems

Owners reported body & structure problems in 23 complaints for the 2018 Tesla Model X, 7% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
23 7% of this year's complaints
Crashes and fires
5 and 0
Injuries and deaths
2 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

What the data shows

These complaints mention 5 crashes, 2 injuries.

What owners wrote

The auto close feature on the Tesla Model X can quite dangerous. I’ve been hit by it unexpectedly closing several times. The most recent time, the rear trunk closed on me while I was taking out my grocery bag out of it. It hit my forehead, and I got a major bump. I ask NHTSA to investigate if there’s a manufacturer defect, so us Tesla owners are not further injured.

March 2025 Injury

It happened at 7/21/2019, 1pm. The place is a parking lot in front of a store. I was driving my tesla x. Before I reached there, I was already in that parking lots for several minutes; the speed was very low, about 3 miles/hour. When I found the store, I wanted to turn left and park next to a car in front of the store. At that time, I loosed the accelerator panel. Since my tesla has the default regenerative brake setting, the car speed is almost zero.

Reported at 7,084 miles, July 2019 Crash

Other problems reported for the 2018 Tesla Model X

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Body & structure problems across all Tesla models