Recall · 25V699000
Tesla recalled the TESLA Cybertruck over exterior lighting
63,619
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
October 15, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- The defect
- Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2024-2026 Cybertruck vehicles operating software prior to 2025.38.3. The vehicle controller software may cause the front parking lights to be too bright and exceed the maximum light output, adversely affecting the vision of other drivers. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment."
- What it can cause
- Parking lights that are too bright can reduce visibility of oncoming drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Tesla released an over-the-air (OTA) software update, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 12, 2025. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-25-00-008.
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 63,619 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 90% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2024 to 2026, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Tesla vehicles have been recalled over the exterior lighting 3 times before this, most recently in December 2024 as 24V904000. 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 197 complaints with NHTSA, 83 of them before this campaign was filed. 12 of those name the exterior lighting, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in April 2024, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 10 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V255000 (wheels), 25V735000 (exterior lighting), 25V170000 (structure), 24V935000 (tires).
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 October 15, 2025 as campaign 25V699000. 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 2025-10-15.
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