Tesla Model 3, Tesla Model Y, model years 2017 to 2023. Filed by Tesla, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 5 August 2026. 20,349 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2017-2023 Model 3 and 2020-2023 Model Y vehicles. The headlight low beams may be too bright and exceed the maximum light output. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, …
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-24-17-003. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V507 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 26V507 cover?
- Tesla Model 3, Tesla Model Y, model years 2017-2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2017-2023 Model 3 and 2020-2023 Model Y vehicles. The headlight low beams may be too bright and exceed the maximum light output.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Headlight low beams that are too bright can reduce visibility for oncoming drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. The remedy is currently under development. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 3, 2026. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-24-17-003.
- 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-24-17-003, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
- Has this notice changed since it was announced?
- Yes. The remedy was reworded on 3 Sep 2026. Both versions are on this page, with the date each was read.
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: “Headlight low beams that are too bright can reduce visibility for oncoming drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V507 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Tesla, Inc. |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting:Headlights |
| Reported to NHTSA | 5 August 2026 |
| Model years | 2017-2023 |
| Vehicles named | TESLA MODEL 3, TESLA MODEL Y |
What the notice says today
The defect
Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2017-2023 Model 3 and 2020-2023 Model Y vehicles. The headlight low beams may be too bright and exceed the maximum light output. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment."
The consequence
Headlight low beams that are too bright can reduce visibility for oncoming drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
The remedy is currently under development. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 3, 2026. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-24-17-003.
What it said before
This notice has been edited since it was first published. NHTSA shows only the current version. Both are below, read straight from the agency at the times shown, with the words that moved marked.
The remedy was rewritten
2 words added, 2 removed. The notice grew from 224 to 221 characters.
The remedy is currently under development. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 15, 2026. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-24-17-003.
The remedy is currently under development. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 3, 2026. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-24-17-003.
Nothing above is our paraphrase. Both columns are the agency’s own text; only the marking is ours.
This is one of 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . 1 change recorded in the wording since we started reading it daily, the latest on 1 October 2026.
Changed since our daily reading began
1 October 2026: the remedy was rewritten. Before: The remedy is currently under development. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 3, 2026. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-24-17-003.
After: Tesla Service will replace the headlights, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 3, 2026. Owners may contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752. Tesla's number for this recall is SB-24-17-003.
Side by side
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2026401, recorded 19 August 2026
Matched on SB2417003, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
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 26V507, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v507/
The copy quoted above hashes to 5425354d2f8bb2242a9481ab4c8d7d01…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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
- 26V445: 2026 Model Y and 2024 Model 3
- 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 26V507 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
a0c43254 - Consequence
8c07b4fb - 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 26V507 · how the whole register is watched
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