Luxury electric auto maker Tesla is voluntarily recalling about 2,700 Model X vehicles due to a precautions over its third row seat backs.
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The company e-mailed customers that the recliner hinge in the back row seats unexpectedly slipped during a pre-delivery test in Europe.
Citing failures found during internal strength testing, Telsa is issuing a voluntary recall on all Model X crossovers produced on or before March 26th of this year.
Owners of the Tesla Model X were alerted to the car’s first recall notice today, and it’s one they may want to take care to follow. Fortunately, there have been zero reports of this issue. “We are now constructing new third row seat backs to match all affected vehicles”.
Tesla is blaming the issue on a third-party manufacturer, Futuris, which supplied the third-row seats. Service centers will contact affected parties in the near future to schedule the installation of a new seatback, and Tesla expects production of all replacement seatbacks to be done within the next five weeks, if not sooner. This means that there are times when the third-row seats would “fail” and the seat would fall forward.
Tesla must be happy that this issue affects so few vehicles.
It is recalling the seats “out of an abundance of caution for our customers”, said Tesla’s president of sales and service Jon McNeil.
Pacific on Monday: This post has been updated with additional comment from Tesla highlighting that “about 2,700” Model X vehicles are impacted. The fix, as Tesla told us via email, is already in place.
That was after the part passed 15 strength tests in the U.S. McNeil said that European Union tests are more “stringent”, and exposed a manufacturing flaw in the seat latch. The following video highlights more aspects of Model X recalls.
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