Fisker recalls over 12,000 Oceans because doors won’t open

• Over 12,500 Fisker Ocean owners have a brand new issue
• The Ocean’s exterior door handles could stick and fail to open
• Fisker has filed for bankruptcy

Fisker is recalling 12,523 Ocean electric SUVs globally due to a problem that might cause exterior door handles to stay and fail to open, the corporate announced Friday.

The recall encompasses 8,204 vehicles within the U.S., 513 in Canada, and three,806 in Europe, based on an organization press release. Within the U.S., Oceans were delivered as each 2023 and 2024 models. Fisker estimates that 2.5% of vehicles could have the defect, which the corporate attributes to a “malfunctioning mechanism.”

Fisker will inspect all 4 exterior door handles on affected vehicles with a “specialized force checking tool” provided by the supplier of the door handles, and can replace them if obligatory, freed from charge.

Owner letters are expected to be mailed August 30. Owners may also contact Fisker at 1-844-347-5371 and reference recall number TSB55062401, or contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) at 1-888-327-4236. The NHTSA’s reference number for this recall is 24V466000.

2023 Fisker Ocean

That is the third recall of the Ocean on this month alone, and the NHTSA has 4 open investigations into issues related to the vehicles, based on Reuters. Fisker, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, contracted assembly and a few development work to Magna, which built the Ocean at the identical Austrian factory where the Jaguar I-Pace is assembled.

Ocean production was slow to ramp up, but once it did, sales were even slower. Left with a glut of undelivered EVs, Fisker paused production in March because it sought to attract down inventory and seek additional funding. Around the identical time, Fisker slashed prices by as much as $24,000 while, with concerns about quality issues already creeping in, Tesla began freezing Oceans out as trade-ins.