Safety authorities in Norway will not issue a recall for Tesla Model S and Model X vehicles in the country following an investigation into their rear lower control arms.
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) opened an investigation into the issue after it received more than a dozen customer reports during 2022 about rear lower control arms suddenly breaking. While some had thought the issue could prompt regulators to issue a recall, NPRA will not do so because it notes that failures happened when cars were traveling at low speeds and often when reversing.
“The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) believes that a break in the rear lower control arm does not constitute an unacceptable risk, and that there is no basis for demanding a recall of the vehicles,” it confirmed.
In addition, the agency noted that the number of reported cases was low compared to the total number of Model S and Model X vehicles on Norwegian roads.
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A report from last year indicated that more than 3,000 reports of control-arm failures had been reported globally in the 12 months preceding April 2019. Service managers and technicians in the country claim that they had to frequently deal with control arms repairs and assert that in 2017, the car manufacturer told them to push the cost of replacing parts onto the customers by blaming the failures on abusive driving in a bid to relieve it of warranty claims.
Reuters reports that Tesla incurred a loss of $263 million globally due to repairs for parts that failed just months after customers took delivery.
Tesla told NPRA that it thought the probability of a severe issue with the rear lower control arm was low and “would not constitute any safety risk and hazard.”
