Recall · 23V488000
Tesla recalled 2 models over seat belts
15,869
Vehicles covered
2
Models
6
Model years
July 14, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:FRONT
- The defect
- Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2021-2023 Model S and Model X vehicles. The front-row seat belts may not be connected properly to the pretensioner anchors, which can cause the seat belts to detach.
- What it can cause
- A detached seat belt may not properly restrain an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Tesla Service will inspect the front-row seat belts and connect the seat belts to pretensioner anchors, or replace the seat belt assemblies, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 12, 2023. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-23-20-004.
- 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 15,869 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 82% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2021 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 seat belts 4 times before this, most recently in October 2022 as 22V798000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 781 complaints with NHTSA, 255 of them before this campaign was filed. 29 of those name the seat belts, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2020, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 31 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V283000 (back over prevention), 25V172000 (air bags), 25V002000 (back over prevention), 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 July 14, 2023 as campaign 23V488000. 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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