Recall · 21V246000
General Motors recalled 3 models over air bags
108
Vehicles covered
3
Models
23
Model years
April 8, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:CRITICAL FASTENERS
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2010-2015, 2017 Buick Enclave, 2010-2019 Chevrolet Traverse, and 2011-2016 GMC Acadia vehicles. The side curtain air bags may not be properly attached.
- What it can cause
- Unsecured side curtain air bags may not perform as intended, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- GM will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and, if necessary, realign or replace the weld nuts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on May 24, 2021. Owners may contact Buick customer service at 1-800-521-7300, Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020, and GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782. GM's number for this recall is N202321200.
- 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 108 vehicles this is a small campaign: 69% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2010 to 2019, so the oldest vehicles on it were 11 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Chevrolet vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 64 times before this, most recently in March 2021 as 21V211000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 23 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 7,132 complaints with NHTSA, 4,151 of them before this campaign was filed. 2,102 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in October 2009, 11 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 23V334000 (air bags), 22V246000 (air bags), 21V782000 (air bags), 20V668000 (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 April 8, 2021 as campaign 21V246000. 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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