Recall Register

Tesla Model X: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 39 recall campaigns for the Tesla Model X, model years 2015 to 2025. NHTSA has 161 complaints on file for this model line. 11 of the 11 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20152
  2. 201612
  3. 201710
  4. 20189
  5. 20198
  6. 202010
  7. 202124
  8. 202222
  9. 202317
  10. 20248
  11. 20253
Tesla Model X: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2025 Tesla Model X300%239,960
2024 Tesla Model X800%4,408,919
2023 Tesla Model X1700%7,443,006
2022 Tesla Model X2200%10,307,833
2021 Tesla Model X2400%10,253,462
2020 Tesla Model X1000%5,998,856
2019 Tesla Model X817%4,819,745
2018 Tesla Model X915102%4,954,696
2017 Tesla Model X1031212%4,990,040
2016 Tesla Model X12114779%4,973,205
2015 Tesla Model X200%139,346

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

238 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Tesla Model X: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Suspension260.562
Vehicle Speed Control117.628
Unknown or Other113.427
Structure109.226
Steering71.417
Electrical System67.216
Visibility/Wiper50.412
Air Bags37.89
Service Brakes37.89
Wheels25.26

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Tesla Model X, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2022, with 12 campaigns.
Complaints about the Tesla Model X, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2017, with 73 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Tesla: all 6 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Tesla Model X: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/tesla/model-x/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
Tesla, Inc.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Tesla Model X model years have the most recall campaigns?
2021 with 24, 2022 with 22, 2023 with 17. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Tesla Model X model year has the most complaints?
The 2016 model year, with 114 of the 161 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Tesla Model X name?
Suspension: 260.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 117.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 113.4 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Tesla Model X?
20 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.