Recall · 20V184000
General Motors recalled the CHEVROLET Bolt EV over latches/locks/linkages
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Vehicles covered
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Model
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Model years
March 26, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:DOORS:LATCH
- The defect
- General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Chevrolet Bolt EV vehicles. The door-handle cable inside the rear doors may be too long, allowing contact with the window when it is opened, possibly damaging the cable. A damaged cable may cause the rear door to open unintentionally when the rear window is opened. Additionally, it may cause the rear inside door handle to not work.
- What it can cause
- If the rear door opens while driving, or the door handle fails to open the rear door, there is an increased risk of injury to the rear passengers.
- What the dealer does
- GM will notify owners, and dealers will replace the rear inside door-handle cables, free of charge. The recall began April 17, 2020. Owners may contact Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020. GM's number for this recall is A202298320.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 897 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 57% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2019 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Chevrolet vehicles have been recalled over the latches/locks/linkages 12 times before this, most recently in March 2020 as 20V142000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 348 complaints with NHTSA, 13 of them before this campaign was filed. 1 of those name the latches/locks/linkages, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2018, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 9 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V812000 (electrical system), 24V481000 (electrical system), 23V845000 (structure), 22V930000 (structure).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by General Motors LLC with NHTSA on March 26, 2020 as campaign 20V184000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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