Recall · 22V702000
Tesla recalled 4 models over visibility
1,096,762
Vehicles covered
4
Models
13
Model years
September 19, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS
- The defect
- Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2017-2022 Model 3, 2020-2022 Model Y, and 2021-2022 Model S and Model X vehicles. The window automatic reversal system may not react correctly after detecting an obstruction. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 118, "Power-Operated Window Systems."
- What it can cause
- A closing window may exert excessive force by pinching a driver or passenger before retracting, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Tesla will perform an over-the-air (OTA) software update of the automatic window reversal system, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 31, 2032. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-22-00-013.
- 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. This one is fixed by a software update rather than a workshop visit.
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 1,096,762 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 99% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2017 to 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
This site holds the complaint record for all 13 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 6,174 complaints with NHTSA, 2,294 of them before this campaign was filed. 65 of those name the visibility, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2018, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 45 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V507000 (exterior lighting), 26V283000 (back over prevention), 25V172000 (air bags), 24V967000 (air bags).
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 September 19, 2022 as campaign 22V702000. 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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