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pimg height=183 src=http://l.yimg.com/a/feeds/us/grn/green_ecogeek/roadster-recall.jpg width=468 //ppAfter the exciting news last week that a href=http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2761/69/Daimler is purchasing a 10 percent stake/a in the auto company, Tesla has been hit with a bit of a href=http://www.teslamotors.com/media/press_room.php?id=1376a setback/a. The Office of Defects Investigation has discovered that many of the already-delivered Roadsters contain under-torqued bolts that could lead to major safety issues for the drivers. The company has had to recall 345 of the 400 cars they’ve delivered so far to fix the error.br /br /
Tesla is passing the blame for the cars manufactured between March 2008 and April 2009 onto Lotus, saying they built the chassis on those cars and are having to recall some of their own Elises and Exiges for the same problem./ppObviously trying to stay in the good graces of their customers, Tesla is offering to make house calls to repair the potentially-loose hub bolts, plus they’re performing full vehicle inspections and software upgrades at no cost while they’re at it./ppThe company pointed out that this recall has nothing to do with the electric power-train and no accidents have been caused the issue./ppvia a href=http://earth2tech.com/2009/05/28/more-bad-news-tesla-recalling-hundreds-of-roadsters-for-safety-issue/Earth2Tech/a/pp /p

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