Recall · 22V036000
General Motors recalled 6 models over power train
1,789
Vehicles covered
6
Models
6
Model years
January 27, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DRIVESHAFT
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2021 GMC Yukon, Yukon XL, Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, Chevrolet Suburban, and Chevrolet Tahoe vehicles. The rear wheel driveshaft assemblies may have internal components that were not heat-treated properly, possibly resulting in driveshaft failure.
- What it can cause
- Driveshaft failure can cause a sudden loss of drive power, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the left and/or right rear driveshaft assemblies, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on March 14, 2022. Owners may contact Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020; Cadillac customer service at 1-800-458-8006 or GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782. GM's number for this recall is N212351030.
- 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 1,789 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 65% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 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 power train 40 times before this, most recently in October 2021 as 21V817000. 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 1,286 complaints with NHTSA, 82 of them before this campaign was filed. 237 of those name the power train, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in September 2020, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 15 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V619000 (fuel system, diesel), 25V274000 (engine and engine cooling), 24V797000 (power train), 22V827000 (exterior lighting).
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 January 27, 2022 as campaign 22V036000. 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 2022-01-27.
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