Are you one of the 1,300 owners of Tesla Motors' first run of electric roadsters? Supposing you were fortunate enough to drop over a hundred grand on a souped up golf cart, you might want to check your vehicle's VIN number lest your headlamp spontaneously start smoking and ruin your emission-free track record like it did for one undoubtedly humbled owner.
The issue has only been reported in a single vehicle so far, but for a company that has cranked out fewer than two thousand vehicles the figure represents a fairly significant percentage of the fleet. Thus, a third of the Palo Alto company's vehicles are being voluntarily recalled for a chafing problem involving a low-voltage cable and the carbon fiber panel behind a headlamp. There's no threat to the vehicle's main juicebox, but Tesla's "Service Rangers" are ready and equipped to make home or office visits to complete the minor repair involving a prophylactic sleeve slipped over the offending cable.
Tesla Roadster owners of models 2.0 or 2.5 with VIN numbers ending with 501 or higher will want to check the press release and think about getting that checked out.
[SFBiz]
[Tesla PR]
