Tesla remembers greater than 239,000 cars over rearview digicam downside

Tesla is recalling greater than 240,000 cars on account of a rearview visibility factor.

In a regulatory submitting this week, the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Protection Management mentioned the electrical automaker reported that a pc circuit board on sure Style 3, S, X and Y cars would possibly brief, ensuing within the lack of the rearview digicam symbol, decreasing the driving force’s rear view and elevating the danger of a crash. 

Tesla isn’t conscious about any collisions, accidents or fatalities associated with the situation, in keeping with recall paperwork.

The recall impacts the next Tesla cars:

•  2024-2025 Style 3, Style S 
• 2023-2025 Style X 
• 2023-2025 Style Y cars. 

To mend the issue, Tesla launched a unfastened device replace. The corporate mentioned it “will even establish any cars that skilled a circuit board failure, or tension that can result in a circuit board failure, and substitute the affected computer systems, without cost.” 

Notification letters are to be mailed to house owners of affected vehicles on March 7, 2025. House owners would possibly touch Tesla customer support at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla’s quantity for this recall is SB-25-00-001.

House owners may additionally touch the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Protection Management Car Protection Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153) or move to nhtsa.gov. NHTSA’s quantity for the recall is 25V-002.

That is Tesla’s first recall of 2025. It follows a main recall in December involving greater than 2 million Tesla cars throughout its fashion lineup to mend a faulty Autopilot gadget.

U.S. regulators on Tuesday opened an investigation into 2.6 million Teslas after studies of crashes involving the usage of the corporate’s self sufficient riding generation that permits drivers to remotely command their car to go back to them, or transfer to some other location, the use of a telephone app.