24V935000
TIRES:PRESSURE MONITORING AND REGULATING SYSTEMS
Driving with improperly inflated tires increases the risk of a crash.
2018 TESLA MODEL 3
18 safety recall campaigns, 14 defect investigations (5 open), 1,665 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns18
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations145 open
Owner complaints1,665
Complaints citing a crash202
Complaints citing a fire7
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 6 of 18
24V376000
SEAT BELTS:FRONT:WARNING LIGHT/DEVICES
A seat belt warning system that fails to alert occupants of an unbelted seat belt can increase the risk of injury during a crash.
24V153000
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE
Pedestrians may be unaware of an approaching vehicle if the PWS sounds are muted, increasing the risk of a crash.
24V051000
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: INSTRUMENT CLUSTER/PANEL
Warning lights with a smaller font size can make critical safety information on the instrument panel difficult to read, increasing the risk of a crash.
23V838000
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:ADAS:DRIVER MONITORING:SOFTWARE
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.
23V235000
SUSPENSION:CRITICAL FASTENERS
A lateral link separation could shift the wheel alignment, causing instability and increasing the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 171UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 167SUSPENSION
- 159ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 131AIR BAGS
- 129FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
- 113FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
- 100SEAT BELTS
- 89VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2018 TESLA MODEL 3s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.