Recall · 21V611000
General Motors recalled 2 models over air bags
34,157
Vehicles covered
2
Models
6
Model years
August 5, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW:CURTAIN
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC. (GM) is recalling certain 2020-2022 Cadillac CT4 and CT5 vehicles. The roof rail side-curtain air bags may not have been installed correctly, which could result in an improper air bag deployment during a crash.
- What it can cause
- Air bags that do not deploy properly can increase the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect both left and right-side roof rail air bags and reinstall the air bags, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on August 30, 2021. Owners may contact Cadillac customer service at 1-800-458-8006. GM's number for this recall is N212342780.
- 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.nhtsa.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 34,157 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 87% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Cadillac vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 22 times before this, most recently in June 2021 as 21V421000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 91 complaints with NHTSA, 4 of them before this campaign was filed. 7 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 June 2020, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 25V148000 (power train), 22V903000 (exterior lighting), 21V421000 (air bags), 20V588000 (service brakes).
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 August 5, 2021 as campaign 21V611000. 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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