Tesla has issued a recall overlaying greater than 321,000 automobiles as a consequence of taillamps that will fail to light up. Mannequin Ys from 2020-2023 are included within the recall, however solely Mannequin 3 automobiles from the 2023 mannequin 12 months constructed between October 19 and November 5, 2022, could also be affected. Tesla estimates that lower than 1% of automobiles on the highway in the USA exhibit the defect. Curiously, Tesla says it “noticed buyer complaints primarily from international markets.”
In accordance with paperwork posted to the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration’s web site, “In uncommon situations, taillamps on one or each side of affected automobiles might intermittently illuminate as a consequence of a firmware anomaly that will trigger false fault detections in the course of the car get up course of. Brake lamps, backup lamps and switch sign lamps will not be affected by this situation and proceed to function as designed.”
Naturally, taillamps that stay unlit at evening can scale back visibility, each that of the Tesla driver and different motorists sharing the highway. As is usually the case with Tesla remembers, an over-the-air replace will repair the problem, which implies homeowners should not be required to take their automobiles in to a bodily location for servicing. Tesla says automobiles constructed beginning on November 6, 2022, have already got the most recent firmware that corrects the issue.
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