Recall · 21V912000
Tesla recalled the TESLA Model Y over suspension
826
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
November 21, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
SUSPENSION
- The defect
- Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2020-2022 Model Y vehicles. The front and rear suspension knuckles may fracture, causing the suspension links to separate.
- What it can cause
- Suspension links that separate can reduce vehicle stability and control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Tesla Service will inspect and replace the knuckles as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 18, 2022. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-21-31-004.
- 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 826 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 56% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Tesla vehicles have been recalled over the suspension 2 times before this, most recently in October 2021 as 21V835000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,190 complaints with NHTSA, 121 of them before this campaign was filed. 134 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 August 2020, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 27 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 November 21, 2021 as campaign 21V912000. 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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