Recall · 21V835000
Tesla recalled 2 models over suspension
2,791
Vehicles covered
2
Models
5
Model years
October 25, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
SUSPENSION:CRITICAL FASTENERS
- The defect
- Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Model Y and 2019-2021 Model 3 vehicles. The front suspension lateral link fasteners may loosen, allowing the lateral link to separate from the sub-frame.
- What it can cause
- A lateral link separation could shift the wheel alignment, causing instability and increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Tesla Service will tighten or replace the lateral link fasteners as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 20, 2021. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-21-31-003.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 2,791 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 69% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2019 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Tesla vehicles have been recalled over the suspension once before this, most recently in November 2020 as 20V709000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 5 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 3,050 complaints with NHTSA, 324 of them before this campaign was filed. 239 of those name the suspension, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in April 2019, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 29 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V507000 (exterior lighting), 26V283000 (back over prevention), 24V935000 (tires), 24V554000 (latches/locks/linkages).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Tesla, Inc. with NHTSA on October 25, 2021 as campaign 21V835000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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