Recall · 22V465000
General Motors recalled the BUICK Regal over service brakes, hydraulic
23,734
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
June 30, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST:VACUUM
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2018-2020 Buick Regal vehicles. In the event of a vacuum-power brake assist failure, a software error in the electronic brake control module (EBCM) may result in a loss of power brake assist. As such, these vehicles fail to conform to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 135, "Light vehicle brake systems."
- What it can cause
- A loss of power brake assist can extend the distance required to stop the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the EBCM software, free of charge. Interim owner notification letters advising owners of the safety risk were mailed on August 19, 2022. Owner notification letters were mailed September 16, 2022. Owners may contact Buick's customer service at 1-800-521-7300.
- 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 23,734 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 85% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Buick vehicles have been recalled over the service brakes, hydraulic 14 times before this, most recently in August 2018 as 18V576000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 37 complaints with NHTSA, 15 of them before this campaign was filed. 2 of those name the service brakes, hydraulic, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2018, 4 years before this filing.
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 June 30, 2022 as campaign 22V465000. 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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