Recall · 24V967000
Tesla recalled 2 models over air bags
487
Vehicles covered
2
Models
10
Model years
December 24, 2024
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:CUSHION
- The defect
- Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2021-2025 Model S and Model X vehicles. The driver's air bag could tear during deployment. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) numbers 208, "Occupant Crash Protection" and 212, "Windshield Mounting."
- What it can cause
- A torn air bag may not adequately protect an occupant in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Tesla service will replace the air bag assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 21, 2025. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-24-20-001.
- 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 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 487 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 50% 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 2025, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Tesla vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 10 times before this, most recently in April 2024 as 24V284000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 10 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 865 complaints with NHTSA, 587 of them before this campaign was filed. 31 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2020, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 32 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V283000 (back over prevention), 25V172000 (air bags), 25V002000 (back over prevention), 24V904000 (exterior lighting).
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 24, 2024 as campaign 24V967000. 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 2024-12-24.
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