Recall · 22V165000
General Motors recalled 2 models over visibility
681,509
Vehicles covered
2
Models
4
Model years
March 17, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2014-2015 Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain vehicles. The ball joints in the windshield wiper module may corrode, causing one or both windshield wipers to fail.
- What it can cause
- Inoperative windshield wipers can reduce visibility in certain driving conditions, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect the wiper module, and repair or replace it as necessary, free of charge. Interim owner notification letters informing owners of the safety risk were mailed on April 21, 2022. Owner notification letters were mailed on October 25, 2022. 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 N212352530.
- 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 681,509 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 98% 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 2015, so the oldest vehicles on it were 8 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Chevrolet vehicles have been recalled over the visibility 29 times before this, most recently in May 2019 as 19V387000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,818 complaints with NHTSA, 1,202 of them before this campaign was filed. 83 of those name the visibility, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in April 2014, 7 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry one other recall published here: 22V137000 (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 March 17, 2022 as campaign 22V165000. 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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