Recall · 21V245000
General Motors recalled 3 models over seat belts
2,568
Vehicles covered
3
Models
7
Model years
April 8, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:FRONT
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2014-2016 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, 2015-2016 Chevrolet Tahoe, and 2014-2015 GMC Sierra 1500 vehicles that may have received an incorrect replacement tensioner cable assembly as part of a previous recall remedy or a subsequent repair. The flexible steel cable connecting the driver's seat belt to the outboard side of the seat may be repeatedly bent over the seat side shield as the driver enters and exits the vehicle causing the cable to fatigue and separate.
- What it can cause
- A broken pretensioner cable reduces the effectiveness of the driver's seat belt, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- GM will notify owners, and dealers will replace the driver seat belt lap pretensioner, free of charge. The recall began on May 5, 2021. Owners may contact Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020, and GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782. GM's number for this recall is N212330040.
- 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 2,568 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 68% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2014 to 2016, so the oldest vehicles on it were 7 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Chevrolet vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 49 times before this, most recently in March 2021 as 21V210000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 7 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 5,694 complaints with NHTSA, 3,735 of them before this campaign was filed. 134 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 January 2014, 7 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 26V289000 (power train), 21V504000 (air bags), 20V736000 (air bags).
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 April 8, 2021 as campaign 21V245000. 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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