Tesla Model X Recalls

The Tesla Model X has 50 recalls spanning 2015 through 2025, with the most serious recent issue being a driver's airbag that can tear during deployment on 2021–2025 models, potentially leaving the driver without adequate protection in a crash.

On the active safety side, 2021–2024 models have a hood latch sensor that can fail to detect an unlatched hood, allowing it to fly open and block the driver's view. The 2023 model year has a forward-facing camera that can become misaligned and silently disable automatic emergency braking, forward collision warning, and lane assist. On 2017–2021 models, a communication error in the camera system can trigger false forward collision warnings or cause the automatic emergency braking to fire unexpectedly, stopping the car abruptly. The electric power steering on 2017–2021 models can lose its assist after hitting a rough road or pothole, requiring significantly more steering effort.

Restraint and occupant protection issues span several recent years. Front seatbelts on 2021–2023 models can detach from their pretensioner anchors, removing restraint in a crash. The front passenger airbag on 2021–2023 models can deploy incorrectly in certain low-speed crashes. Side curtain airbags on 2021–2022 models may not deploy properly when the windows are lowered. On 2021–2024 models, an incorrect airbag can be installed when the steering yoke or round wheel is swapped, causing it to deploy wrong. Cabin doors on 2022–2023 models can unlock during a crash and swing open. The brake fluid warning light on 2021–2023 models can fail to illuminate when fluid is low, masking a reduction in braking performance.

Several software-related issues affect 2016–2023 models equipped with Full Self-Driving Beta, where the system can roll through all-way stop intersections without stopping, exceed posted speed limits, or make unpredictable maneuvers at intersections. The Autosteer system on 2016–2023 models can allow the driver to become inattentive in ways that increase crash risk when the system reaches its limits. On 2021–2022 models, a heat pump valve error can reduce defrost performance, cutting forward visibility in cold weather. The infotainment processor on 2021–2022 models can overheat during fast charging and restart, temporarily removing the rearview camera image, gear selection display, and warning lights from the screen. Power windows on 2021–2022 models may not reverse properly when they detect an obstruction, pinching a hand or arm. Rearview camera display failures affect multiple year ranges: a circuit board short can prevent the image from showing on 2023–2025 models, software instability causes the same on 2023 models with the full self-driving computer 4.0, and a delayed image affects 2021–2023 models running a specific software version.

Going back to earlier production, the 2016–2018 model years have a media processor that wears out over time and can cause the loss of the rearview camera display, rear defrost controls, and exterior turn signals. The 2016–2017 models have left-side second-row seat backs that may not fully latch, allowing the seat back to pitch forward in a crash. The 2016 model year has corroding power steering bolts that can fracture and cause sudden loss of steering assist, a third-row seat back that can move forward in a frontal