Tesla and Lotus have together issued a recall regarding 2008 Roadster’s and 2009 Elise and Exiges.
The official recall notice points to the fact that the rear hube flange bolts on some of the 345 Roadsters produced in 2008 may not have been properly torqued which could lead to decreasingly worse vehicle handling and a rubbing noise from the back of the vehicle. The rubbing noise obviously isn’t a big deal but a car with decreased handling poses all sorts of safety hazards.
If you didn’t know, Lotus provides Tesla with some engineering, mainly the Roadster’s main chassis which shares some parts with their Elise and Exige models thus leaving them to issue a similar recall.
Tags: Elise, Exige, Lotus, rear hub flange bolts, Recall, roadster, safety