ELECTRIC car company Tesla has issued a worldwide voluntary recall to every single Model S on the road, around 90,000 in total.
But this isn’t because of some huge manufacturing defect — it’s a result of just one single report from Europe that a seatbelt wasn’t assembled properly.
The fault was found after the person sitting in the front passenger seat turned to talk to other passengers in the rear seats and their seatbelt became disconnected. Officially, Tesla said that, “a bolt that connects the outboard lap pretensioner, which pulls the seatbelt tight in the event of an accident, wasn’t assembled properly.”
There were no injuries as a result of the incident and there have been no other reported examples. Tesla also says they haven’t been able to replicate the issue on its assembly line or on any of the other 3000 cars they have tested.
The US government agency that looks after automotive safety, the NHTSA was notified of the incident but didn’t order Tesla to issue a recall, they did that themselves.
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