Recall · 22V844000
Tesla recalled 2 models over exterior lighting
321,628
Vehicles covered
2
Models
5
Model years
November 15, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TAIL LIGHTS
- The defect
- Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2023 Model 3 and 2020-2023 Model Y vehicles. One or both taillights may intermittently fail to illuminate.
- What it can cause
- A taillight that fails to illuminate may reduce the visibility of the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Tesla has released an over-the-air (OTA) software update, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 14, 2023. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-22-00-016.
- 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 321,628 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 97% 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 2023, 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 exterior lighting once before this, most recently in September 2020 as 20V609000. 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 3,743 complaints with NHTSA, 1,021 of them before this campaign was filed. 56 of those name the exterior lighting, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in August 2020, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 34 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V507000 (exterior lighting), 26V283000 (back over prevention), 25V092000 (steering), 25V002000 (back over prevention).
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 15, 2022 as campaign 22V844000. 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 2022-11-15.
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