2019 Tesla Model X 90D
This year drew an ordinary 73 complaints for a Tesla Model X 90D — the model's median is 237. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.2% of them mention accelerating, against 1.4% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 73 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 237 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
What the complaints were about
- accelerating — 8.2% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the model's other years (5.7×).
- mentioned — 8.2% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (4.3×). Owners wrote it as: mentioned, deployment.
- situation — 9.6% of this year's complaints, against 3.6% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: situation, want.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
Tesla mentioned the seat alga’s a sensor malfunction. It is a 2019. The sensor malfunction impacts the airbag deployment. They will not fix and requires $4100 replacement of the seat.
I was told that I need to replace the full steering column (which costs over $5,600). I understand there are other open recalls on very similar issues for other Tesla vehicles. The car is 2019, Model X, with no prior accidents. I didn't want to put my family i…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Tesla Model X 90D was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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