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Tesla Model 3 recalls: 34 US campaigns

One of these notices was reworded after it was announced. The authority changed the remedy on 26V507. The register shows only the current wording. This site keeps both, with the date each was read and a fingerprint of the text, so the change is provable.

NHTSA has recorded 35 distinct safety campaigns against the Tesla MODEL 3 since 2016. The Dutch register holds 9, for the 66,145 of them registered on Dutch roads.

35US safety campaigns
2016–2025
9Dutch campaigns
all years on file
66,145registered on
the Dutch road

American regulators have recorded 26 more distinct campaigns against the Tesla MODEL 3 than the Dutch register holds.

What those campaigns were about

NHTSA files every campaign against the system at fault. For the Tesla MODEL 3, the American record breaks down like this: counted once per campaign, not once per model year.

Electrical system7
Forward collision avoidance5
Seat belts4
Steering3
Back over prevention3
Equipment2
Suspension2
Visibility2

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 3 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 15 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 3 record is mostly about

Recalls are not interchangeable, and this model’s are not spread evenly. The single largest group is electrical system, with 8 of the 35 American campaigns filed against it, followed by forward collision avoidance (5) and seat belts (4). 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 3 production counts once here, which is not how most recall counts are quoted.

With 66,145 on the Dutch register, this is a common car here, which makes the difference between the two countries’ files worth more than a footnote.

Check a Tesla MODEL 3

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 3 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

34 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 S37Cybertruck11

Tesla Model 3 across the registers

This site holds seven national and European registers. Tesla Model 3 is named on 34 American notices, 22 Canadian, 11 British, 4 European, 5 Japanese and 7 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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Israeli

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Tesla Model 3, 83 recall notices held in 6 registers, every version kept at CarsMultiverse

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