Recall · 21V649000
General Motors recalled 2 models over seat belts
402
Vehicles covered
2
Models
9
Model years
August 20, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:CRITICAL FASTENERS
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2016-2021 Chevrolet Malibu and 2019-2021 Cadillac XT4 vehicles. The rear seat belt retractors may be improperly secured with loose or missing fasteners.
- What it can cause
- An improperly secured seat belt retractor may not function properly in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and tighten the rear seat belt retractors, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on September 17, 2021. Owners may contact Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020 and Cadillac customer service at 1-800-458-8006. GM's number for this recall is N212333380.
- 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 402 vehicles this is a small campaign: 51% 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 2016 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Chevrolet vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 50 times before this, most recently in April 2021 as 21V245000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,749 complaints with NHTSA, 1,291 of them before this campaign was filed. 20 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 October 2015, 5 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 5 other recalls published here, the newest being: 22V868000 (back over prevention), 22V359000 (seats), 21V115000 (tires), 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 August 20, 2021 as campaign 21V649000. 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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