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Tesla Model S recalls: 33 US campaigns

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NHTSA has recorded 33 distinct safety campaigns against the Tesla MODEL S since 2016. The Dutch register holds 11, for the 5,463 of them registered on Dutch roads.

33US safety campaigns
2016–2025
12Dutch campaigns
all years on file
5,463registered on
the Dutch road

American regulators have recorded 21 more distinct campaigns against the Tesla MODEL S than the Dutch register holds.

What those campaigns were about

NHTSA files every campaign against the system at fault. For the Tesla MODEL S, the American record breaks down like this: counted once per campaign, not once per model year.

Air bags6
Electrical system6
Steering5
Forward collision avoidance5
Back over prevention3
Seat belts3
Visibility2
Parking brake1

What this does not mean. A larger count on one side is not proof that the other country's owners were abandoned. Model variants differ between markets, an American campaign can cover an engine or body never sold in Europe, and a privately imported car has no national importer obliged to write to its owner, which is itself worth knowing. We publish the difference as a measured fact and an open question, never as an accusation.

Check whether a Tesla MODEL S recall was quietly rewritten · check your own car, by country

US figures are distinct NHTSA campaign numbers for vehicle recalls, read from NHTSA's published bulk file, last read 17 September 2026. Dutch figures are campaigns recorded by the Netherlands vehicle register; the fleet count is the Netherlands vehicle register's vehicle register. One campaign counts once however many model years it covers.

What the MODEL S record is mostly about

Recalls are not interchangeable, and this model’s are not spread evenly. The single largest group is air bags, with 6 of the 33 American campaigns filed against it, followed by steering (5) and forward collision avoidance (5). The full breakdown is in the table above, counted once per campaign rather than once per model year: a single campaign covering six years of MODEL S production counts once here, which is not how most recall counts are quoted.

Check a Tesla MODEL S

A recall lookup tells you what is open on your car today. It does not tell you whether the notice was edited after it was published: manufacturers revise them, and the new version replaces the old one on the public record. We keep the originals, hashed and dated. Check a Tesla MODEL S against ours, or look your own car up by country.

How these two registers are compared, why most models cannot be compared at all, and which forty can: the method is here. Figures rebuild themselves from NHTSA’s bulk file and the Netherlands national vehicle register’s open data; freshness is public on the status page.

Every campaign, as the authority wrote it

35 of these campaigns are listed below. The page behind every number carries the fault, the fix and the wording as filed - and any later change to that wording.

The rest of the Tesla record

Every Tesla campaign we hold, newest first, with the ones caught being rewritten marked.

Other Tesla models:

Model Y43Model X39Model 335Cybertruck11

Tesla Model S across the registers

This site holds seven national and European registers. Tesla Model S is named on 37 American notices, 26 Canadian, 8 British, 5 European, 2 Japanese and 6 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules. Nothing here says any one of them is another one in a different country.

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Canadian

British

European

Japanese

Israeli

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Tesla Model S, 84 recall notices held in 6 registers, every version kept at CarsMultiverse

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