Recall · 20V792000
General Motors recalled 9 models over seat belts
624,216
Vehicles covered
9
Models
17
Model years
December 17, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2019-2021 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500, 2021 Chevrolet Suburban and Tahoe and GMC Yukon XL and 2020-2021 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 and 3500 and GMC Sierra 2500 and 3500 vehicles. The seat belt brackets may not be secured to the seat frame in the front-row center seating position.
- What it can cause
- If a seat-belt bracket is not secured, the seat belt may not properly restrain an occupant in the front-row center seat position, increasing the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- GM will notify owners, and dealers will inspect left-side and right-side front-row center seat-belt bracket attachments and reassemble it correctly as necessary, free of charge. The recall began January 26, 2021. Owners may contact GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782, Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020. GM's number for this recall is N202314670.
- 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| ChevroletSilverado 1500 | 2019 to 2021 | 201920202021 |
| ChevroletSilverado 2500 | 2020 to 2021 | 20202021 |
| ChevroletSilverado 3500 | 2020 to 2021 | 20202021 |
| ChevroletSuburban | 2021 | 2021 |
| ChevroletTahoe | 2021 | 2021 |
| GMCSierra 1500 | 2019 to 2021 | 201920202021 |
| GMCSierra 2500 | 2020 to 2021 | 20202021 |
| GMCSierra 3500 | 2020 to 2021 | 20202021 |
| GMCYukon XL | 2021 | 2021 |
How this campaign compares
At 624,216 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 98% 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 2021, 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 seat belts 45 times before this, most recently in October 2020 as 20V638000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 17 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 5,491 complaints with NHTSA, 455 of them before this campaign was filed. 56 of those name the seat belts, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in December 2018, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 30 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V083000 (power train), 25V619000 (fuel system, diesel), 25V274000 (engine and engine cooling), 24V797000 (power train).
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 December 17, 2020 as campaign 20V792000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2020-12-17.
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