24V935000
TIRES:PRESSURE MONITORING AND REGULATING SYSTEMS
Driving with improperly inflated tires increases the risk of a crash.
2020 TESLA MODEL 3
20 safety recall campaigns, 13 defect investigations (5 open), 753 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns20
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations135 open
Owner complaints753
Complaints citing a crash97
Complaints citing a fire5
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 20
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.
23V085000
STEERING:AUTOMATED/ADAPTIVE STEERING
FSD Beta software that allows a vehicle to exceed speed limits or travel through intersections in an unlawful or unpredictable manner increases the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 106FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
- 81FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
- 81UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 66VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 46SERVICE BRAKES
- 45STEERING
- 38SUSPENSION
- 37ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2020 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.