Recall · 23V235000
Tesla recalled the TESLA Model 3 over suspension
422
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
March 31, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
SUSPENSION:FRONT
- The defect
- Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2018-2019 Model 3 vehicles. The front suspension lateral link fasteners may loosen, allowing the lateral link to separate from the sub-frame.
- What it can cause
- A lateral link separation could shift the wheel alignment, causing instability and increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Tesla Service will tighten or replace the lateral link fasteners as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 30, 2023. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-23-31-001. This recall is an expansion of previous recall number 21V-835.
- 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 422 vehicles this is a small campaign: 51% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2019, 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 suspension 4 times before this, most recently in December 2022 as 22V895000. 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 1,617 complaints with NHTSA, 750 of them before this campaign was filed. 261 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 May 2018, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 19 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V507000 (exterior lighting), 24V935000 (tires), 24V376000 (seat belts), 24V153000 (forward collision avoidance).
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 March 31, 2023 as campaign 23V235000. 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 2023-03-31.
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