Tesla Model 3, Tesla Model Y, model years 2024 to 2026. Filed by Tesla, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 7 July 2026. 15 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2026 Model Y and 2024 Model 3 vehicles. The vehicles were originally built for a foreign market and do not have knee air bags, may not be equipped with certain interior safety countermeasures, and may not have been tested for bumper impact resistance procedures. As such, these …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Tesla's own number for this recall: SB-26-00-004. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V445 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V445 cover?
- Tesla Model 3, Tesla Model Y, model years 2024-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2026 Model Y and 2024 Model 3 vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A noncompliant vehicle may have reduced occupant protections, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Tesla will repurchase noncompliant vehicles currently registered in the United States, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 5, 2026. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752 or resolutions@tesla.com.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Tesla calls this recall SB-26-00-004, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A noncompliant vehicle may have reduced occupant protections, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V445 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Tesla, Inc. |
| System at fault | Structure:Body:Bumpers |
| Reported to NHTSA | 7 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2024-2026 |
| Vehicles named | TESLA MODEL 3, TESLA MODEL Y |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A noncompliant vehicle may have reduced occupant protections, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
The remedy
Tesla will repurchase noncompliant vehicles currently registered in the United States, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 5, 2026. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752 or resolutions@tesla.com. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-26-00-004.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V445, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v445/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other Tesla notices we hold
- 26V558: 2026 Model Y
- 26V507: 2017-2023 Model 3 and 2020-2023 Model Y
- 26V315: 2025-2026 Model Y
- 26V283: 2017, 2021-2023 Model 3, 2020-2023 Model Y, 2021-2023 Model S, and Model X
- 26V255: 2024-2026 Cybertruck
- 25V735: 2024 Cybertruck
- 25V699: 2024-2026 Cybertruck
- 25V690: 2025 Model 3 and 2026 Model Y
All 94 Tesla campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 26V445 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8772fdcb - Consequence
ea390cad - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
The wording we hold for 26V445 · how the whole register is watched
72 days after this was filed with the regulator, the register still carries no date for the letter to owners. The sixty days 49 CFR 577.7 allows have passed. A blank there is a gap in the record, which is not the same as a gap in the post: where this maker stands on the sixty days.
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