Recall · 23V489000
Tesla recalled 3 models over forward collision avoidance
1,337
Vehicles covered
3
Models
3
Model years
July 14, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: SENSING SYSTEM: CAMERA
- The defect
- Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2023 Model S, Model X, and Model Y vehicles. The forward-facing camera may be misaligned, causing some of the active safety features such as emergency braking, forward collision warning, and lane assist to become unavailable without alerting the driver.
- What it can cause
- Safety features that are unavailable without any warning to the driver may increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Tesla Service will inspect and adjust the pitch angle, 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-23-17-006.
- 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 1,337 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 62% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2023, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2023, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Tesla vehicles have been recalled over the forward collision avoidance 2 times before this, most recently in May 2022 as 22V317000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,440 complaints with NHTSA, 260 of them before this campaign was filed. 504 of those name the forward collision avoidance, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 24 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V507000 (exterior lighting), 26V283000 (back over prevention), 25V172000 (air bags), 25V092000 (steering).
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 23V489000. 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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