Recall · 22V818000
Tesla recalled 2 models over steering
40,168
Vehicles covered
2
Models
10
Model years
November 1, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM
- The defect
- Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2017-2021 Model S and Model X vehicles. The electronic power assist steering (EPAS) system may experience a loss of power steering assist when driving on rough roads or after hitting a pothole.
- What it can cause
- A loss of power steering assist can require greater steering effort, especially at low speeds, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Tesla has released an over-the-air (OTA) software update to recalibrate the EPAS system, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 31, 2022. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-22-00-014.
- 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 40,168 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 88% 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 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Tesla vehicles have been recalled over the steering 2 times before this, most recently in February 2020 as 20V062000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 10 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,615 complaints with NHTSA, 929 of them before this campaign was filed. 214 of those name the steering, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in April 2017, 5 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 26 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V283000 (back over prevention), 25V172000 (air bags), 24V967000 (air bags), 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 1, 2022 as campaign 22V818000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2022-11-01.
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