Recall · 23V130000
Tesla recalled the TESLA Model Y over seats
3,470
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
February 27, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
SEATS:CRITICAL FASTENERS
- The defect
- Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2022-2023 Model Y vehicles. The bolts securing the second-row seat back frames may not have been securely tightened.
- What it can cause
- A loose seat frame bolt may reduce the seat belt system's performance, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Tesla Service Centers will inspect and tighten the bolts as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed April 25, 2023. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-23-13-001.
- 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 3,470 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 71% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2022 to 2023, 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 seats 3 times before this, most recently in October 2017 as 17V639000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,988 complaints with NHTSA, 403 of them before this campaign was filed. 30 of those name the seats, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2021, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 25 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 February 27, 2023 as campaign 23V130000. 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 2023-02-27.
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