Code VCLEFT_a335 was reported by the “Left vehicle controller” controller in the car. The letter “a” in the middle places it among entries of the alert type.
Vehicle Controller Left — the left body controller. It runs the left-hand doors, windows, mirrors, seats and their heating.
The most common type. The car logged the event and may have shown it on the screen. The range is wide — from something trivial that clears itself to something that needs attention.
This is how the fault is named inside the car's firmware. For codes without a description it is the most precise clue there is — the name itself says what the event is about.
The text below comes from Tesla's technical documentation. We leave it in the original English so that translation cannot shift its meaning.
The intrusion sensor is responding on LIN but has experienced an internal fault
Intrusion Sensor internal fault has been cleared
Intrusion Sensor may not work properly
Electronic Parking Brake Monitor measured less current than is required for Electronic Parking Brake to transition to DYNAMIC.
Electronic Parking Brake attempted to transition to DYNAMIC while Electronic Parking Brake Monitor had yet to measure the minumum current required to allow the transition.
The caliper may not have the expected braking force.
The brushless motor has an integrated circuit (LV8907 or DRV8305) warning
The integrated circuit has detected a condition that should be reported
The HVAC cabin blower may not be able to run
Copy it exactly, letter and number included. Photographing the screen is safest — codes often differ by a single digit, and mixing them up leads somewhere else entirely.
Some codes clear after a screen restart or after the car sits locked for a few hours. If the code does not come back, it was usually a one-off glitch.
A one-off entry and a code that appears after every drive are two different things. It helps a service centre enormously if you know exactly when it shows up.
With airbags, brakes, steering and high voltage there is no point waiting it out. With the other groups you can watch and see whether the code returns at all.
Error codes are only part of the picture. For cars on TesList you also see battery health pulled straight from the vehicle, plus a price calculator that works out from current listings what a given car is actually worth today.