{"id":1248,"date":"2018-03-31T22:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T22:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2018-03-31T22:02:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T22:02:45","slug":"tesla-voluntarily-recalls-a-huge-number-of-its-model-s-sedans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/tesla-voluntarily-recalls-a-huge-number-of-its-model-s-sedans\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Voluntarily Recalls a Huge Number of its Model S Sedans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/14_Tesla_Model_S.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/14_Tesla_Model_S-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/14_Tesla_Model_S-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/14_Tesla_Model_S.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Tesla recall covers 123,000 model S built before April 2016.<br \/>\nTesla said Thursday it was recalling a huge number of its Model S <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\">sedans<\/a> around the world over faulty steering component. The automaker informed customers in an email that it was a proactive move and none of the Tesla\u2019s other vehicles were affected.<br \/>\nThe company said 123,000 Model S vehicles built before April 2016 have been affected. There have been no injuries or crashes related to the car\u2019s power steering problem, the company said. <!--more-->The previous largest Model S recall was when 90,000 of the vehicles were affected by a faulty seat belt in 2015. Last year, Tesla recalled 53,000 Model S and Model X cars over a parking brake fault.<br \/>\nTesla said the problem seemed to be most frequent in colder climates and places where the roads get salted with chemicals in the winter.<br \/>\nTesla said owners do not need to stop driving their cars if they haven\u2019t seen a drop in their Model S\u2019 power steering performance. They can continue driving the vehicles until the company prepares a fix.<br \/>\nTesla said owners do not need to stop driving their cars if they haven\u2019t experienced any problems. The company said it would inform Model S owners when a retrofit, which is estimated to take an hour to install, is ready in the area they live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla recall covers 123,000 model S built before April 2016. Tesla said Thursday it was recalling a huge number of its Model S sedans around the world over faulty steering component. The automaker informed customers in an email that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/tesla-voluntarily-recalls-a-huge-number-of-its-model-s-sedans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}