Marketed as an ultra-durable, stainless-steel pickup built for extreme conditions, Tesla’s Cybertruck instead spent much of 2025 moving in and out of recall status.
An analysis by Finbold of manufacturer filings Tesla submitted to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows that at least 115,912 Cybertrucks were covered by recall campaigns during the 2025 calendar year.
The figure is derived from three separate Part 573 safety recall reports Tesla filed in 2025, each addressing a different safety or regulatory defect. Together, they form the largest annual recall footprint for the Cybertruck since the model entered production.
Spread across the full year, that equates to roughly 318 Cybertrucks per day, more than 2,200 per week, or nearly 9,700 per month on average being covered by recall notices.
The biggest of the three came early in the year, when Tesla notified regulators that a stainless-steel exterior trim component known as the cant rail could delaminate and detach while driving.
In its official filing, Tesla said the issue could create a road hazard and therefore required physical replacement of the part. The recall covered 46,096 Cybertrucks built between November 13, 2023 and February 27, 2025, according to the NHTSA document submitted by the automaker.
Tesla Cybertruck recalls
Later in 2025, Tesla issued a second, much larger recall that did not require owners to visit a service center. A software defect was found to allow the front parking lamps to exceed federal brightness limits, potentially impairing the vision of other drivers. Tesla remedied the issue via an over-the-air update, but the recall still applied to 63,619 Cybertrucks produced from late 2023 through October 11, 2025, based on Tesla’s own regulatory disclosure.
The third recall was narrower but still significant. Tesla reported that an optional off-road light bar accessory, installed on certain Cybertrucks, could detach because the wrong primer had been used during installation. That campaign affected 6,197 vehicles, again according to the NHTSA safety recall report filed by Tesla.
As with previous years, the numbers do not mean every recalled truck necessarily exhibited a fault. NHTSA recall populations represent the maximum number of vehicles that could be affected, not confirmed failures. Still, the scale of the campaigns underscores how frequently early-stage Cybertruck production has been forced back into compliance through regulatory action.
Tesla Cybertruck recalls in 2025 double 2024 figure
The contrast with 2024 is particularly striking. Last year, Finbold found that roughly 57,000 Cybertrucks were subject to recalls, meaning the 2025 total more than doubled in absolute vehicle terms, even though some of the newer campaigns were resolved by software updates rather than mechanical repairs.
For Tesla, the recalls also provide one of the few externally verifiable indicators of Cybertruck production volumes. Because the company does not publish model-level delivery numbers, NHTSA filings, which list exact production date ranges and recall populations have become a proxy for estimating how many units have actually left the factory.
The 2025 figures show that the Cybertruck’s rollout remains far from smooth. A pickup that was pitched as nearly indestructible has now spent two consecutive years among the most frequently recalled vehicles in Tesla’s lineup, with 2025 setting a new high-water mark for the model’s regulatory footprint.
Source: https://finbold.com/tesla-recalled-over-115000-cybertrucks-in-2025/
