Tesla Model 3 2018 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin SB-18-16-008 · NHTSA communication 10145812 · issued Sep 13, 2018
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
2018
model years
1
vehicle entries
Official summary
On certain Model 3 vehicles, the rear drive unit HV header bolts and the positive contactor bolt within the High Voltage (HV) battery penthouse were insufficiently torqued to internal specifications during manufacturing.
Vehicles covered
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.