Recall · 23V838000
Tesla recalled 4 models over electrical system
2,031,220
Vehicles covered
4
Models
31
Model years
December 12, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:ADAS:AUTONOMOUS/SELF DRIVING:SOFTWARE
- The defect
- Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling 2012-2023 Model S, 2016-2023 Model X, 2017-2023 Model 3, and 2020-2023 Model Y vehicles equipped with all versions of Autosteer leading up to the version(s) that contains the recall remedy. In certain circumstances when Autosteer is engaged, the prominence and scope of the feature's controls may not be sufficient to prevent driver misuse of the SAE Level 2 advanced driver-assistance feature.
- What it can cause
- In certain circumstances when Autosteer is engaged, and the driver does not maintain responsibility for vehicle operation and is unprepared to intervene as necessary or fails to recognize when Autosteer is canceled or not engaged, there may be an increased risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Tesla will release an over-the-air (OTA) software update, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 10, 2024. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-23-00-008.
- 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 2,031,220 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 99% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2012 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 11 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Tesla vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 9 times before this, most recently in October 2023 as 23V679000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 31 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 12,072 complaints with NHTSA, 8,115 of them before this campaign was filed. 2,168 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2013, 10 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 56 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 December 12, 2023 as campaign 23V838000. 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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