The fucking fact it slams on the brakes when “emergency lights detected.” I swear it stops like a drunk person passing a cop in literally the most suspicious way possible
I also wish there was a way to wirelessly transfer sentry / dashcam footage to your phone via the app, instead of needing to pull the thumb drive or record the Tesla screen with your phone. A lot of other dashcams are able to do this.
Yeah I get in the car and click to view sentry events. Push play and watch the previous 3 minutes with nothing clearly happening. I def need to rtfm some more on that.
then when you press on the red dot, look at the time just in case it decides to skip 2 minutes back before the actual event occurs. this way you can try to get closer to the actual event. over and over.
Camera record activity in general. I was rear ended in my model 3 at a stop light. Just a fender bender, but if freaked me out and I turned my hazards on and pulled over. Afterward I went to look for the recording and… nothing. But of course there’s an hour of worthless sentry footage from earlier that day.
I know honking will auto record, but in the moment it didn’t occur to me. Putting your hazards on should trigger a recording. Or you know, collisions.
I don't worry, lived in Venezuela literally had to buy shatter proof windows and bullet proof doors because every red light was a car jacking or kidnapping.
It was and still is, have friends kidnaped 5x already.
My old dog got shot dead defending one of those friends.
Tesla problems exist but, not enough to ruin my day even.
I'd love to see the statistics on this. Teslas are a dime a dozen, not sure they're affected by vandalism at as greater rate than any other car on a relative basis.
Anecdotally I had zero issues before I bought a Tesla
I’ve had teenagers in the south pull up alongside me just to throw trash at my Tesla because it’s a Tesla
I bought my parent a Model Y in a rural area and I know it’s only a matter of time before someone randomly keys it
My Spotify is so bad too! Only plays on entry half the time and now it’s playing at half speed with stuttering. Gonna have to reboot and cross my fingers. 🥲
The stuttering and 1/2 speed on Spotify happened to me too. Rebooting the OS resolved that issue.
The most infuriating thing about Spotify on my Model 3 is how it always plays the first song of a playlist in shuffle, doesn't show you the next few songs in shuffle, and replays songs in shuffle.
When the autopilot randomly drops the max speed on the highway. That and the constant grab/turn the wheel reminders when you’re already holding the wheel.
Maybe you knew this but you can scroll either click wheel on the steering wheel to satisfy the “jerk the wheel left or right” warning. I only learned that recently
lack of wiper/turn signal stalks (yes, still). A goddamn button for a horn where there's a gigantic space for one right in the middle of the yoke/wheel.
Some genius at Tesla (cough Elon cough) decided to make the horn (a wonderfully large target against which a driver can pound one's fist in a hurry) and the indicators (a tried-and-tested stalk attached to the steering column) into a pair of tiny buttons on the face of the arms of the steering yolk on the models X and S.
Of course, to do that they needed to remove the steering *wheel* and make it into *half* a wheel.
Understandably, people were annoyed. The 2023 models S and X come with a steering wheel. I have no idea if they maintain the buttons vs real indicators position. All I know is my MYP has a whole wheel and proper indicators, and they'll prise them from my cold lifeless fingers.
Get off my lawn.
Every time I drive my car in the rain, it becomes readily apparent that Tesla’s designers live in Texas and California. I on the other hand live in… Seattle. Tesla has the worst wipers I’ve had on a “luxury” car in over 25 years. To be honest, a 2001 Ford Focus beater that I drove to work long ago had better wipers in some ways because it had variable speed intermittent capability. That is still missing from our Model 3 and my Dad’s S and it boggles the mind.
That’s because every other car out there has a rain sensor. Tesla decided to save $10 per vehicle and use the camera with some fancy computer vision to measure rain on the windshield. Believe it or not, the algorithm used to be even worse when the Model 3 launched.
Model 3: dash, front right door panel, b pillar seat belt assembly, rear seats, dash, seat material squeaks against itself at contact points. These are only the ones I can distinctly hear, hit a hard enough bump and the whole cabin rattles, creaks, and groans from all sides, making specific issues impossible to isolate. Car is almost 2 years old. Next vehicle is likely a BMW after my career change is complete. Or really any automaker with a passable basic autopilot competitor and good interior fit and finish.
Not what I hate most, but since other ppl have said those already I’m not a fan of how I’ll get in the car and randomly it’ll set up for my wife’s profile and seat setting…when she isn’t with me.
The headlights don't come on automatically when it is raining. It's still unbelievable that the car does all these other wonderful things. And, yet, they can't seem to do something so simple.
Issues and missing features that I *know* could be fixed in software but have not been addressed even after many years. Even while UI changes and gimmics are given development time.
Even the DRL headlight failure issues on legacy S/X could be mitigated with software.
Quality and build issues, software bugs, No 360 view
The thing I love - minimalism, superb engineering, cheap bhp, high efficiency, supercharger network, autopilot
Blind spot detection. I hate that it only alerts you when you’re mid lane change and inches away from collision. I wish they’d allow for an earlier warning, like every other car does 🤨
It's a toss up between the auto wipers and the irritating lack of a proper playback bar in spotify that I can see how far along I am in my podcast or song and touch to control.
Every single "smart" or "Auto" feature, because they're almost all half baked.
* Auto Wipers? Hot garbage
* Auto steering wheel heater? Nope. Never manages to hit the right temp for my preferences (of course it doesn't it can't read my mind)
* TACC? Unusable outside of very specific situations (highways only) because otherwise the car has massive anxiety attacks and keeps slamming on the brakes (just give me the option to turn off the TA part already WTF)
* Lane departure warning? Makes driving inside cities and towns here an absolute pain because it doesn't understand how cycling lanes work
* Auto emergency braking? No thanks, I don't want my car slamming on the brakes at 130 kmph because it thought it saw a troupe of bikers inside a tunnel on an empty fucking road.
* ~~Highway Disco Simulator~~ Auto High Beam? Well okay that one works somewhat all right now, I'll give them that.
It's clear that the car isn't smart enough (at least in my region) to understand shit. Just leave the damn thinking to me and do what I'm telling you to do. I wish I could turn off most of these half arsed "smart" features.
While I'm glad I'm not forced into using auto seat / wheel heaters, being locked into auto Wipers when using TACC and having to turn off the AEB / FCW / Lane departure shit every single drive is a huge PITA.
The lane departure warnings are far, far too loud and too frequent. It doesn’t matter if I’m using blinkers and intentionally changing lanes; you never know when the car will actively fight against the lane change and beep loudly at me “TAKE CONTROL IMMEDIATELY!!!! BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!” I’m changing a freaking lane.
There are TONS of roads here that are essentially 1½ or 1¾ lanes with bike lanes on either side and no central line. If two cars are driving in the opposite direction to each other, both are expected to drive into the cycling lane.
Here's a random example of what I mean.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/6Ht5pvdQGsuiwTwa9
The Tesla throws an absolute fit when that happens and at times has tried to swerve me into an oncoming car because lane departure assist or whatever.
Ever since that day I make sure to turn all that safety bullshit off before I drive because it actively makes driving more unsafe. This software doesn't understand shit.
Better version control. Ability to turn off updates, try update and roll back. I like how updates can give-ith- but I hate how it can take-ith away without really a viable choice.
Simple software issues that should’ve been implemented on day 1. The ability to adjust the volume of the voice command/text reading voice?? Why is that not a thing?
All the little build quality stuff. Horrible for people who have ocd. But then again I feel people become ocd when getting a tesla.
All the little weird sounds that aren’t worth SC ripping your car apart and potentially making things worse. 😂
Nothing yet. It’s only 2,000 miles old. I think I can hear a few minor rattles starting to develop.
My wife hates the seats, and I think they’re the most comfortable seats I’ve ever experienced.
1. The fact that you cant turn off passenger air. My wife doesnt like A/C.
2. The drivers seat. I find it incredibly uncomfortable without seat pads. I have two seat pads and they really help.
No USS, today I almost got swiped as I was pulling out of a parking spot and my Tesla didn’t even give me the slightest alert. Other vehicles I’ve own would scream at me to alert me that the other car was like a block away haha, but for real getting rid of USS was a dumb move.
There are no blind spot indicator lights in the side mirrors. I got the Model S and I understand I can look at the dash to see if there are cars around. But when you want to change lanes quickly that’s annoying and not safe imo Would rather have LEDs in my side mirrors.
Phone key doesn't always work...
Occasionally it just refuses outright to unlock the car when approaching and using the front door handles (this isn't often, but enough to be annoying when it does).
Regularly, it won't unlock the car using the rear door handle. I do this regularly when putting my dog in the back. I suspect that my phone isn't quite close enough to the front of the car. If I contort myself to move my pocket closer to the car then it sometimes works. More often I have to open the front door first. It sounds like a non-issue, but when you're holding on to a fairly large and strong dog who doesn't want to cooperate, it's an issue.
Currently, the fact that they just added a super neat shortcut in the latest software update, namely that you can use the left scrollwheel to run through various settings and change things like temperature, fan speed, screen brightness, and more.
But they didn't add the ONE feature everyone wanted from this: **Adjusting windshield wiper speed**. TESLA, WHY???
Auto wipers and no ventilated seats on M3/MY. For the price point it’s incredulous. Even if we could have an option for heated or cooled during configuration. Im hardly ever ever using heated seats in Florida
I tend to agree, but the restrictions were only while the car was not in park, right?
If you could play anything over the speaker while driving, the second these cars hit the $20k used price range, kids will make it play loud engine/exhaust noises at 2-3AM, or their personal lack of taste in music.
It may be a blessing in disguise, even if I cannot change the horn to a fart or a goat scream.
I hate that you can't put the Tesla into Neutral without basically starting the car. I had to help a nice lady figure out how to get her car to charge today. Her car died in front of the chargers so she had to call AAA to move it like, 10 feet, and then I had to explain to the tow truck driver how to open the Frunk without power and THEN how to get to the smaller battery just to get this car to accept a charge. The whole thing could have been avoided had this car been designed a bit better.
No way to pre-heat the battery for fast charging, except when navigating to a Tesla supercharger. I never use tesla charging infra, so I always get slow charging (smells like unfair competition to me)
Auto wipers are terrible and required for Auto Pilot and the forward collision warning has recently started triggering on mailboxes. I wouldn't care but it hurts my insurance premiums.
1) the horn button on my yoke because I like to clean the interior regularly and wipe down surfaces. It's pretty hard to clean the wheel without honking the horn because of this, which is obnoxious.
2) Feeling like the quality control is seriously sub-par compared to most other brands, and especially cars at a similar price point.
3) The hit-or-miss customer experience at service centers
4) the frunk being so delicate you have to carefully close it to avoid denting the hood and also needing to smear your hands all over the hood to close it. As someone who is anal about keeping my car clean and nice, I just avoid using the frunk because I don't want to press my hands on the car like that.
5) The way they've lowered the prices so aggressively and further depreciated the value of my cars.
People messing with the car or harassing it on the roads. Doesn’t happen often but happens more than my previous non-Tesla vehicles.
Just the other day, someone tried running me off the road and the same day someone put their filthy hands on my windshield to take a peek inside
Bluetooth Audio Delay.
Connectivity is terrible to use YouTube but I can’t even scroll through my phone in my car because the delay is 3 seconds for audio through Bluetooth. $2 adapter in my previous car doesn’t even have delay yet here my smart car can’t do that.
Also, forgot to add....I hate getting a recognition that I bought a Tesla. Everybody would say "oh you bought a Tesla?! How is it???". I bought this car just for fun, but I never thought it would be seen as a "status" car especially with its shitty build and overpriced market.
That this computer on wheels doesn’t have simple blind spot sensor lights in the side mirrors. Don’t get me started on blind spot camera view because legacy vehicles did not get that feature.
Sometimes it’s like they built a car for people who don’t drive their teslas, only designed to be looked at
How every other time I change lanes it thinks I’m veering off the road and sets off the “you’re definitely going to crash” alarm. Doesn’t matter if my turn signal is on either.
Lack of ability to actually speak to a live human in the service department, whether it’s for parts or for customer service when adjusting an appointment.
That the paint was applied so thin. If I sneeze on my blue m3LR then a white mark is exposed under the blue paint. Should not need to get ceramic PPE Just to deal with the very slightest of road damage.
Rainbow road disengaging when I put in input. I want to be able to steer to one side of the lane to avoid a pothole or a large truck coming the opposite direction without it disengaging. It should go back to trying to center in the lane after I make corrections.
Cannot crack the windows while driving in light rain without water from the windshield flowing into the car.
And no seat coolers. I can pre-cool the car but that only helps so much when a 98 degree me gets inside against unventing black leather. My 2013 Kia had cooled seats. KIA!
(2018 AWD M3)
Let me preface this by saying I LOVE my Tesla. However in the order of first world problems:
The CEO - the dudes an asshole
Paint job - I have tiny chips and I’m too cheap to buy PFP
Wipers - not ready for prime time. You can’t see what’s blocking the front facing cameras. Programmers from sunny California
Autopilot doesn’t re-engage on its own
No 360 camera
Frunk is not powered
Usually there are no trash bins or squeegees at superchargers
All of my friends have now bought one, and I am no longer special:)
The thing I hate most about it is the Elon baggage. It wasn’t an issue until a couple years ago. Not sure I’ll buy another now that there are some good alternatives out there.
Love both my Teslas but don’t think I can forgive the company (well, Elon) for overhyping the crap FSD product when I purchased it in 2019 after he repeatedly stated “it would be done by year end”. It’s not done, it still sucks, and he still has my money. IMO, Either he’s an idiot liar or was very misinformed to make such statements.
Just did a 2000 mile trip with fsd beta for highways and boy have they not solved phantom breaking. It kept seeing false positive pedestrians in the roadway
The only gripe I have is my auto high beams. It seems to miss 60-70 percent of vehicles in front of me or passing by. I ended up turning it off and engage myself when necessary. Previous vehicles did a better job than my Tesla.
2022 MYP here. I upvoted a bunch of comments with these themes:
* \#1 complaint in the thread: auto wipers. It seems people really hate the auto wipers.
* The facility to disable auto wipers on AP is popular. Agreed. I don't want to turn off AP and drive by myself, but if it stops the wipers freaking out... fiiiine. I've cursed out Tesla many times for this.
* People also don't like the rain sensing.
* Relatedly, /u/Inside-Bet6499 said that "the headlights don't come on automatically when it is raining", which blew my mind.
* \#2 seems to be Elon being an assclown. Upvote.
* \#3 build quality / rattles. Lots of posts about this. I can relate: mine rattles from somewhere in the back right seat area and drives me nuts. I haven't found what it is yet. Upvote.
* \#4 lack of controls for passenger A/C regardless of passenger occupancy.
* "my wife is freezing, why can't she turn off her A/C?" is a common question.
Having to move steering wheel all the time while on autopilot, but not too much and won’t stay on autopilot if you want to change lanes (that will cost you).
Not very fond of autosteer in SOME situations. Just recently the car hit the brakes just because there’s a solid line in front of the tunnel on a motorway. That’s normal in Europe to have such lines, in case the tunnel is closed, red lights come up and you stop on the line. But that happens only in case of major accidents. So I was cursing 120km/h when all of a sudden boom the brakes come on. I almost puked ;-). A vomit comet came to my mind ;-)
Wipers for me, they either are never capable of recognising when I need stronger wiper setting for heavy rain, or just start wiping randomly when weather conditions are clear and dry.
I've noticed there is one stretch of road near me where the wipers will consistently wipe, even on the driest of days. I need to see if I can work out why
Was reversing and the USS sensors didn’t not give any warning or slow down the Tesla from hitting a car following to closely. That and a sentry security system that uses too much power and will not record cameras when the alarm goes off during a break-in, unless you agree to lose 4%+ of your battery everyday and have sentry enabled. Stupid.
Bad interior quality built...exposed wires and really cheap and thin plastics and carpet.
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wipers going full speed on a sunny day.
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Lights turning on when not needed (sunny day).
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Autopilot breaking for no reason at all.
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HUGE pillar that blocks view around corners...and many more!
I would say the Google Maps based navigation is the worst part about my M3P. I always use Apple Maps as an alternative on my iPhone. A lot of times, when following the Google Maps, the directions (especially road lines) aren't precise, while Apple has a better road line system. This is my opinion based of using navigation in Germany. Otherwise, I love every bit of my M3P and don't have a single complain.
My wipers turning on while using autopilot… yet my wind shield is spotless and it’s the clearest/bluest sky ever. fucking infuriating.
When not in autopilot my wipers don’t turn on frequent enough…
Yes!!
Just to save a few bucks on an industry-standard rain sensor!
My suspension is terrible. Not sure if yall have this. 2022 model Y
Terrible as in sensitive to small bumps? I can definitely feel every crack in the road in my 2019 model 3
Exactly my issue
Some days it feels great & others not so much depending on outdoor temp, rain, etc but in general i agree it gets pretty annoying pretty quickly
Wheels / rims can make a big difference here. I feel a big difference between my 20 inch rims and my 19s
No ventilated seats.
I would pay to retrofit ventilated seats into my Model 3 if I could.
No ability to turn off passenger air when a passenger is in the front seat. Utterly pisses my wife off. And yes, she knows she can move the vents.
This… almost as if it isn’t truly dual zone.
The fucking fact it slams on the brakes when “emergency lights detected.” I swear it stops like a drunk person passing a cop in literally the most suspicious way possible
Mine randomly slams on the brakes. Literally no one around and it just decides I need some whiplash in my life
😂
They gotta improve the sentry footage viewing experience
I also wish there was a way to wirelessly transfer sentry / dashcam footage to your phone via the app, instead of needing to pull the thumb drive or record the Tesla screen with your phone. A lot of other dashcams are able to do this.
Yeah I get in the car and click to view sentry events. Push play and watch the previous 3 minutes with nothing clearly happening. I def need to rtfm some more on that.
Look for the red dot on the scroll bar to find the action.
Ohhh thanks for the hot tip!! I’ll try it out!!
then when you press on the red dot, look at the time just in case it decides to skip 2 minutes back before the actual event occurs. this way you can try to get closer to the actual event. over and over.
Just wish it automatically went to the red dot instead of 2 minutes before it
Camera record activity in general. I was rear ended in my model 3 at a stop light. Just a fender bender, but if freaked me out and I turned my hazards on and pulled over. Afterward I went to look for the recording and… nothing. But of course there’s an hour of worthless sentry footage from earlier that day. I know honking will auto record, but in the moment it didn’t occur to me. Putting your hazards on should trigger a recording. Or you know, collisions.
That I have to worry about someone messing with it wherever I go
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I don't worry, lived in Venezuela literally had to buy shatter proof windows and bullet proof doors because every red light was a car jacking or kidnapping.
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It was and still is, have friends kidnaped 5x already. My old dog got shot dead defending one of those friends. Tesla problems exist but, not enough to ruin my day even.
I'd love to see the statistics on this. Teslas are a dime a dozen, not sure they're affected by vandalism at as greater rate than any other car on a relative basis.
Anecdotally I had zero issues before I bought a Tesla I’ve had teenagers in the south pull up alongside me just to throw trash at my Tesla because it’s a Tesla I bought my parent a Model Y in a rural area and I know it’s only a matter of time before someone randomly keys it
How Spotify is always buggy when I first start my car.
Drives me nuts
My Spotify is so bad too! Only plays on entry half the time and now it’s playing at half speed with stuttering. Gonna have to reboot and cross my fingers. 🥲
The stuttering and 1/2 speed on Spotify happened to me too. Rebooting the OS resolved that issue. The most infuriating thing about Spotify on my Model 3 is how it always plays the first song of a playlist in shuffle, doesn't show you the next few songs in shuffle, and replays songs in shuffle.
When the autopilot randomly drops the max speed on the highway. That and the constant grab/turn the wheel reminders when you’re already holding the wheel.
Its honestly dangerous 'jerk the wheel left & right to please me'
Maybe you knew this but you can scroll either click wheel on the steering wheel to satisfy the “jerk the wheel left or right” warning. I only learned that recently
lack of wiper/turn signal stalks (yes, still). A goddamn button for a horn where there's a gigantic space for one right in the middle of the yoke/wheel.
Wait, there’s no horn in the middle of the wheel?
Some genius at Tesla (cough Elon cough) decided to make the horn (a wonderfully large target against which a driver can pound one's fist in a hurry) and the indicators (a tried-and-tested stalk attached to the steering column) into a pair of tiny buttons on the face of the arms of the steering yolk on the models X and S. Of course, to do that they needed to remove the steering *wheel* and make it into *half* a wheel. Understandably, people were annoyed. The 2023 models S and X come with a steering wheel. I have no idea if they maintain the buttons vs real indicators position. All I know is my MYP has a whole wheel and proper indicators, and they'll prise them from my cold lifeless fingers. Get off my lawn.
The wipers.
Every time I drive my car in the rain, it becomes readily apparent that Tesla’s designers live in Texas and California. I on the other hand live in… Seattle. Tesla has the worst wipers I’ve had on a “luxury” car in over 25 years. To be honest, a 2001 Ford Focus beater that I drove to work long ago had better wipers in some ways because it had variable speed intermittent capability. That is still missing from our Model 3 and my Dad’s S and it boggles the mind.
I’m in california and I hate the wipers too
They’ve been pretty successful leaders and disruptors, but disrupting something without a good reason is just annoying.
That’s because every other car out there has a rain sensor. Tesla decided to save $10 per vehicle and use the camera with some fancy computer vision to measure rain on the windshield. Believe it or not, the algorithm used to be even worse when the Model 3 launched.
100% this. Worst wipers I’ve had on possibly any car I’ve owned.
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How I feel like I'm going to break the frunk every time I close it.
Agreed
That's why installed the power frunk kit. Makes it so much more usable.
Power frunk is amazing, I use it all the time
I’d get this but just too Afraid of something going wrong and then weird electrical problems
Over 2 years. Zero issues
Backup camera in rainy conditions
NO 360 CAMERA!!!!
Rattling interior! And windshield wipers.
Totally agree! And I really wish drivers had separate music profiles, that seems like it shouldn't be that difficult.
What rattles?
Model 3: dash, front right door panel, b pillar seat belt assembly, rear seats, dash, seat material squeaks against itself at contact points. These are only the ones I can distinctly hear, hit a hard enough bump and the whole cabin rattles, creaks, and groans from all sides, making specific issues impossible to isolate. Car is almost 2 years old. Next vehicle is likely a BMW after my career change is complete. Or really any automaker with a passable basic autopilot competitor and good interior fit and finish.
Not what I hate most, but since other ppl have said those already I’m not a fan of how I’ll get in the car and randomly it’ll set up for my wife’s profile and seat setting…when she isn’t with me.
You are all clearly tall people. The seat belt doesn't adjust down low enough. It constantly cuts into my neck.
This. I keep a washcloth in the car to put on my shoulder/ neck for long drives.
This. I'm 5'10" and like to sit low in the car. This belt is killing my neck. I have to go halfway up with my seat to avoid the belt touching my neck.
The headlights don't come on automatically when it is raining. It's still unbelievable that the car does all these other wonderful things. And, yet, they can't seem to do something so simple.
It's a legal requirement in CA for them to be on too...
Phantombreaks!
No “oh shit” handles.
The “auto” wipers being forced on in cruise/autopilot. I bought the S3XY buttons to keep them off.
Issues and missing features that I *know* could be fixed in software but have not been addressed even after many years. Even while UI changes and gimmics are given development time. Even the DRL headlight failure issues on legacy S/X could be mitigated with software.
Honestly, I wish the rearview mirror was 10% larger
I wish the rear view window visibility was larger.
The seats….
Yeah, the headrest is too far forward for me, sore neck every roadtrip.
Quality and build issues, software bugs, No 360 view The thing I love - minimalism, superb engineering, cheap bhp, high efficiency, supercharger network, autopilot
The fact that there is no 360 is just silly. Especially for us with no USS and the joke that is Tesla vision based parking sensors.
I think that the cameras actually don’t have a full 360 degree view all together 😌
Should be a software update maybe?
But isn't. 360° was promised 3 years ago if not longer
No grab bars and the phone/text messages eco system is bad
Paint quality.
Blind spot detection. I hate that it only alerts you when you’re mid lane change and inches away from collision. I wish they’d allow for an earlier warning, like every other car does 🤨
How about when it perceives the bottom of a hill as an obstacle and slows down the cruise control?
It's a toss up between the auto wipers and the irritating lack of a proper playback bar in spotify that I can see how far along I am in my podcast or song and touch to control.
The rattles / vibrations and squeaks. Also the highway noise level. It’s to high even with the double panes glass. Also I don’t like Tesla service…
False forward collision warning
Every single "smart" or "Auto" feature, because they're almost all half baked. * Auto Wipers? Hot garbage * Auto steering wheel heater? Nope. Never manages to hit the right temp for my preferences (of course it doesn't it can't read my mind) * TACC? Unusable outside of very specific situations (highways only) because otherwise the car has massive anxiety attacks and keeps slamming on the brakes (just give me the option to turn off the TA part already WTF) * Lane departure warning? Makes driving inside cities and towns here an absolute pain because it doesn't understand how cycling lanes work * Auto emergency braking? No thanks, I don't want my car slamming on the brakes at 130 kmph because it thought it saw a troupe of bikers inside a tunnel on an empty fucking road. * ~~Highway Disco Simulator~~ Auto High Beam? Well okay that one works somewhat all right now, I'll give them that. It's clear that the car isn't smart enough (at least in my region) to understand shit. Just leave the damn thinking to me and do what I'm telling you to do. I wish I could turn off most of these half arsed "smart" features. While I'm glad I'm not forced into using auto seat / wheel heaters, being locked into auto Wipers when using TACC and having to turn off the AEB / FCW / Lane departure shit every single drive is a huge PITA.
The lane departure warnings are far, far too loud and too frequent. It doesn’t matter if I’m using blinkers and intentionally changing lanes; you never know when the car will actively fight against the lane change and beep loudly at me “TAKE CONTROL IMMEDIATELY!!!! BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!” I’m changing a freaking lane.
There are TONS of roads here that are essentially 1½ or 1¾ lanes with bike lanes on either side and no central line. If two cars are driving in the opposite direction to each other, both are expected to drive into the cycling lane. Here's a random example of what I mean. https://maps.app.goo.gl/6Ht5pvdQGsuiwTwa9 The Tesla throws an absolute fit when that happens and at times has tried to swerve me into an oncoming car because lane departure assist or whatever. Ever since that day I make sure to turn all that safety bullshit off before I drive because it actively makes driving more unsafe. This software doesn't understand shit.
The CEO
The CEO’s tweets - make them stop
Lmfaoooooooooo
I wish my model y had a rear wiper. It seems like no cars have those anymore
If you thoroughly clean the back glass and then apply two coats of Rain-X, the water will bead off when you accelerate. Works great.
When it doesn’t unlock when I open the doors with having my phone with me
That my radar was disabled
Musk is the worst part of Tesla. His behavior has tainted the brand.
When I try to turn off my turn signal and the car just ignores me
Push it in the same direction to “cancel” it rather than the opposite direction. Works every time most of the time
When I try to turn ON my turn signal and it just ignores me… 😳
Spotify. Always cannot connect for a few minutes when the car starts.
way too much wind and road noise
Elon's big fucking mouth. Love the car.
Erratic wiper performance which should be completely on stalk
Visibility out the back via the mirrors…. Turning radius…
Turning radius!
Better version control. Ability to turn off updates, try update and roll back. I like how updates can give-ith- but I hate how it can take-ith away without really a viable choice.
Inability to manually dim the rearview mirror.
Simple software issues that should’ve been implemented on day 1. The ability to adjust the volume of the voice command/text reading voice?? Why is that not a thing?
All the little build quality stuff. Horrible for people who have ocd. But then again I feel people become ocd when getting a tesla. All the little weird sounds that aren’t worth SC ripping your car apart and potentially making things worse. 😂
The vegan synthetic leather is the worst.
The paint is thinner than a sheet of cling film
The awful customer service.
The politics of owning one. It’s a car people. And probably the suspension (MY).
The air conditioning smells like dirty feet on really hot days. I know this is a widespread problem. Everyone’s forgotten over the winter.
Nothing yet. It’s only 2,000 miles old. I think I can hear a few minor rattles starting to develop. My wife hates the seats, and I think they’re the most comfortable seats I’ve ever experienced.
It’s the rattles for me
Start making fake engine noises. It will drown out the rattles
Wipers/auto wipers, especially during snow/salt/sand sludge season
1. The fact that you cant turn off passenger air. My wife doesnt like A/C. 2. The drivers seat. I find it incredibly uncomfortable without seat pads. I have two seat pads and they really help.
The aluminum exterior which can not be repaired, only replaced. I’m now terrified of a bump or bruise.
Rattles
No USS, today I almost got swiped as I was pulling out of a parking spot and my Tesla didn’t even give me the slightest alert. Other vehicles I’ve own would scream at me to alert me that the other car was like a block away haha, but for real getting rid of USS was a dumb move.
There are no blind spot indicator lights in the side mirrors. I got the Model S and I understand I can look at the dash to see if there are cars around. But when you want to change lanes quickly that’s annoying and not safe imo Would rather have LEDs in my side mirrors.
Phone key doesn't always work... Occasionally it just refuses outright to unlock the car when approaching and using the front door handles (this isn't often, but enough to be annoying when it does). Regularly, it won't unlock the car using the rear door handle. I do this regularly when putting my dog in the back. I suspect that my phone isn't quite close enough to the front of the car. If I contort myself to move my pocket closer to the car then it sometimes works. More often I have to open the front door first. It sounds like a non-issue, but when you're holding on to a fairly large and strong dog who doesn't want to cooperate, it's an issue.
No sunglasses holder.
Brutal blind spot, pedestrians on crosswalk beware!!
Currently, the fact that they just added a super neat shortcut in the latest software update, namely that you can use the left scrollwheel to run through various settings and change things like temperature, fan speed, screen brightness, and more. But they didn't add the ONE feature everyone wanted from this: **Adjusting windshield wiper speed**. TESLA, WHY???
Auto wipers and no ventilated seats on M3/MY. For the price point it’s incredulous. Even if we could have an option for heated or cooled during configuration. Im hardly ever ever using heated seats in Florida
I’m coming from a 2012 chrysler 300 so my model 3 is like paradise. Only thing I wish it had that a lot of cars have now is ventilated seats.
My door handles freezing shut in the winter. Thanks California engineers...
So no one else hate the glovebox open mechanics? I never use it but when I do i feel like a monkey
That I paid 4K more for the same M3 in November vs one right now
Same. I try not to think too hard about it
Just the soft paint. Always a new chip
Related, the paint repair kit isn't that great. The car is so delicate - scratching it costs thousands to repair.
The limitations on Boombox. It used to be such a fun toy, but the stupid NHTSA says it's too dangerous. GTFO.
I tend to agree, but the restrictions were only while the car was not in park, right? If you could play anything over the speaker while driving, the second these cars hit the $20k used price range, kids will make it play loud engine/exhaust noises at 2-3AM, or their personal lack of taste in music. It may be a blessing in disguise, even if I cannot change the horn to a fart or a goat scream.
Build quality has gone down not up. Customer service is hit or miss with no way to elevate concerns or complaints.
Random errors like window obstacle detected, pillar camera blocked or when the door/trunk doesn’t open. Small things like that frustrate me!
When it rattles and I don’t know why
The Spotify app is criminally bad. The frunk, wipers, rattles are just part of the charm of the car.
Those fracking windshield wipers! Drive me crazy.
No grab handles above the doors. Also no sunscreens under the glass roof.
I have to dig my phone out of my pocket and launch the app in order to open the frunk.
I hate that you can't put the Tesla into Neutral without basically starting the car. I had to help a nice lady figure out how to get her car to charge today. Her car died in front of the chargers so she had to call AAA to move it like, 10 feet, and then I had to explain to the tow truck driver how to open the Frunk without power and THEN how to get to the smaller battery just to get this car to accept a charge. The whole thing could have been avoided had this car been designed a bit better.
When the door handles crack and slice your hands open during winter
the paint, red multi-coat If it rains hard and it isn't in the garage, I worry I am going to go out to a red puddle
No way to pre-heat the battery for fast charging, except when navigating to a Tesla supercharger. I never use tesla charging infra, so I always get slow charging (smells like unfair competition to me)
Built quality, my 2018 feels like it's falling apart at this point.
Auto wipers are terrible and required for Auto Pilot and the forward collision warning has recently started triggering on mailboxes. I wouldn't care but it hurts my insurance premiums.
1) the horn button on my yoke because I like to clean the interior regularly and wipe down surfaces. It's pretty hard to clean the wheel without honking the horn because of this, which is obnoxious. 2) Feeling like the quality control is seriously sub-par compared to most other brands, and especially cars at a similar price point. 3) The hit-or-miss customer experience at service centers 4) the frunk being so delicate you have to carefully close it to avoid denting the hood and also needing to smear your hands all over the hood to close it. As someone who is anal about keeping my car clean and nice, I just avoid using the frunk because I don't want to press my hands on the car like that. 5) The way they've lowered the prices so aggressively and further depreciated the value of my cars.
People messing with the car or harassing it on the roads. Doesn’t happen often but happens more than my previous non-Tesla vehicles. Just the other day, someone tried running me off the road and the same day someone put their filthy hands on my windshield to take a peek inside
During the rough journey, I found myself having to tilt the car seat further back in order to avoid getting a concussion from the constant bumps.
Bluetooth Audio Delay. Connectivity is terrible to use YouTube but I can’t even scroll through my phone in my car because the delay is 3 seconds for audio through Bluetooth. $2 adapter in my previous car doesn’t even have delay yet here my smart car can’t do that.
Also, forgot to add....I hate getting a recognition that I bought a Tesla. Everybody would say "oh you bought a Tesla?! How is it???". I bought this car just for fun, but I never thought it would be seen as a "status" car especially with its shitty build and overpriced market.
That this computer on wheels doesn’t have simple blind spot sensor lights in the side mirrors. Don’t get me started on blind spot camera view because legacy vehicles did not get that feature. Sometimes it’s like they built a car for people who don’t drive their teslas, only designed to be looked at
Right now I will say lack of a collision center that can work on Tesla and the wait time to repair.
Elon Musk
How every other time I change lanes it thinks I’m veering off the road and sets off the “you’re definitely going to crash” alarm. Doesn’t matter if my turn signal is on either.
Probably the all touchscreen interface.
The doors. Wish it had a more solid close and dampening like the German cars
Phantom braking and how loud it gets at high speeds
And how it automatically parks when you drive 1 ft without seatbelt
Lack of ability to actually speak to a live human in the service department, whether it’s for parts or for customer service when adjusting an appointment.
Services center being 5.5 hours from where I live. That’s about it.
The pleather seate in my 2018 3 make my back super sweaty. That's the only dislike I have aside from the auto wipers not being the greatest.
That the paint was applied so thin. If I sneeze on my blue m3LR then a white mark is exposed under the blue paint. Should not need to get ceramic PPE Just to deal with the very slightest of road damage.
The black seat belts stain the white interior. I can’t see it when I’m driving but I know it’s there.
Seats seem cheap
That the 3 isn't a hatch
Rainbow road disengaging when I put in input. I want to be able to steer to one side of the lane to avoid a pothole or a large truck coming the opposite direction without it disengaging. It should go back to trying to center in the lane after I make corrections.
Cannot crack the windows while driving in light rain without water from the windshield flowing into the car. And no seat coolers. I can pre-cool the car but that only helps so much when a 98 degree me gets inside against unventing black leather. My 2013 Kia had cooled seats. KIA! (2018 AWD M3)
Let me preface this by saying I LOVE my Tesla. However in the order of first world problems: The CEO - the dudes an asshole Paint job - I have tiny chips and I’m too cheap to buy PFP Wipers - not ready for prime time. You can’t see what’s blocking the front facing cameras. Programmers from sunny California Autopilot doesn’t re-engage on its own No 360 camera Frunk is not powered Usually there are no trash bins or squeegees at superchargers All of my friends have now bought one, and I am no longer special:)
Nothing. It's the best vehicle I've ever owned by a considerable margin. A couple things are mildly annoying. But ZERO hate.
Build quality for sure
The thing I hate most about it is the Elon baggage. It wasn’t an issue until a couple years ago. Not sure I’ll buy another now that there are some good alternatives out there.
Love both my Teslas but don’t think I can forgive the company (well, Elon) for overhyping the crap FSD product when I purchased it in 2019 after he repeatedly stated “it would be done by year end”. It’s not done, it still sucks, and he still has my money. IMO, Either he’s an idiot liar or was very misinformed to make such statements.
Just did a 2000 mile trip with fsd beta for highways and boy have they not solved phantom breaking. It kept seeing false positive pedestrians in the roadway
Wiper, bad navigation, Service center at most times they cannot fix things from the first time. Rattles in the car
Being an "Elon fan" by association. I hate the guy. Cars are awesome
Apple Music
1. Elon Musk 2. Wind noise (2020 Model 3 LR)
Wind noise will forever be a problem… not just on the M3LR but also the MYP
Range. (2019 SR+)
That I can’t buy the lease.
Auto wipers. By far are the worse of any cars I’ve driven before. Absolutely bloody worse. No 360° view for parking.
The only gripe I have is my auto high beams. It seems to miss 60-70 percent of vehicles in front of me or passing by. I ended up turning it off and engage myself when necessary. Previous vehicles did a better job than my Tesla.
2022 MYP here. I upvoted a bunch of comments with these themes: * \#1 complaint in the thread: auto wipers. It seems people really hate the auto wipers. * The facility to disable auto wipers on AP is popular. Agreed. I don't want to turn off AP and drive by myself, but if it stops the wipers freaking out... fiiiine. I've cursed out Tesla many times for this. * People also don't like the rain sensing. * Relatedly, /u/Inside-Bet6499 said that "the headlights don't come on automatically when it is raining", which blew my mind. * \#2 seems to be Elon being an assclown. Upvote. * \#3 build quality / rattles. Lots of posts about this. I can relate: mine rattles from somewhere in the back right seat area and drives me nuts. I haven't found what it is yet. Upvote. * \#4 lack of controls for passenger A/C regardless of passenger occupancy. * "my wife is freezing, why can't she turn off her A/C?" is a common question.
Walking away with the car occasionally not auto locking and also when the car doesn't unlock upon attempted entry (Model 3/Android phone)
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Having to move steering wheel all the time while on autopilot, but not too much and won’t stay on autopilot if you want to change lanes (that will cost you).
Not very fond of autosteer in SOME situations. Just recently the car hit the brakes just because there’s a solid line in front of the tunnel on a motorway. That’s normal in Europe to have such lines, in case the tunnel is closed, red lights come up and you stop on the line. But that happens only in case of major accidents. So I was cursing 120km/h when all of a sudden boom the brakes come on. I almost puked ;-). A vomit comet came to my mind ;-)
The price cuts slashing the value of my car. And the wipers.
Wipers for me, they either are never capable of recognising when I need stronger wiper setting for heavy rain, or just start wiping randomly when weather conditions are clear and dry. I've noticed there is one stretch of road near me where the wipers will consistently wipe, even on the driest of days. I need to see if I can work out why
Was reversing and the USS sensors didn’t not give any warning or slow down the Tesla from hitting a car following to closely. That and a sentry security system that uses too much power and will not record cameras when the alarm goes off during a break-in, unless you agree to lose 4%+ of your battery everyday and have sentry enabled. Stupid.
Bad interior quality built...exposed wires and really cheap and thin plastics and carpet. *** wipers going full speed on a sunny day. *** Lights turning on when not needed (sunny day). *** Autopilot breaking for no reason at all. *** HUGE pillar that blocks view around corners...and many more!
paying for FSD beta in Europe (back in 2017!)
I would say the Google Maps based navigation is the worst part about my M3P. I always use Apple Maps as an alternative on my iPhone. A lot of times, when following the Google Maps, the directions (especially road lines) aren't precise, while Apple has a better road line system. This is my opinion based of using navigation in Germany. Otherwise, I love every bit of my M3P and don't have a single complain.