NHTSA Complaint #11330684 — 2013 TESLA MODEL S

THE CENTER TOUCHSCREEN ON MY CAR FAILED, AND WAS TOLD BY TESLA TECHNICIAN IT WAS DUE TO THE MEMORY BEING FULL. FROM FURTHER INVESTIGATION IT APPEARS THAT MEMORY BECAME FULL DUE TO SOFTWARE UPDATES PUSHED BY TESLA AND LOG FILES SAVED ON HARD DRIVE BY TESLA SOFTWARE. WHEN TOUCHSCREEN FAILED I LOST HVAC, STEREO, REAR VIEW CAMERA, NAVIGATION AND POTENTIALLY TURN SIGNALS (WHEN TURN SIGNAL STALK WAS HIT THE DASH DID NOT INDICATE TURN SIGNAL WAS ON, BUT WHEN HAZARD BUTTON WAS PRESSED THE DASH SHOWED THE TURN SIGNAL WAS ON). THE TOUCHSCREEN FAILED WHILE THE CAR WAS PARKED AND I WAS NOT IN IT. I GOT INTO CAR ONE MORNING AND THE TOUCHSCREEN NO LONGER WORKED. THIS SAME TOUCHSCREEN ALSO HAD ANOTHER ISSUE WHERE THE ADHESIVE ON THE SCREEN HAD MELTED AND LEAKED UNDER TOUCHSCREEN. THIS MELTED ADHESIVE CAUSED WHAT LOOKED LIKE A BUBBLE AROUND ~70% OF THE SCREEN. TESLA REPLACED THE TOUCHSCREEN WITH A REMANUFACTURED UNIT (THIS MUST OCCUR AT A HIGH ENOUGH RATE THAT REMAN UNITS ARE AVAILABLE) WHICH COST $1900 TO REPLACE. A NEW TOUCHSCREEN WOULD HAVE COST ME $2400. WHEN I PUSHED THE TESLA SERVICE FACILITY TO COVER THIS FAILURE UNDER WARRANTY THEY WOULD HEAR NOTHING OF IT, EVEN THOUGH BOTH FAILURES WERE KNOWN ISSUES. MY CAR HAD ~74K MILES AT THE TIME OF FAILURE. *TR