Recall · 22V640000
General Motors recalled 2 models over latches/locks/linkages
120,688
Vehicles covered
2
Models
5
Model years
August 25, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:HOOD:LATCH
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2013-2015 Chevrolet Spark and 2014-2015 Chevrolet Spark EV vehicles. The secondary hood latch may corrode at the latch pivot, preventing the hood latch from properly engaging.
- What it can cause
- A hood latch failure can result in the vehicle's hood opening unexpectedly, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the hood striker assembly and hood latch assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 12, 2023. Owners may contact Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020. GM's number for this recall is A222359300. This recall supersedes and expands NHTSA recall number 14V-593. Vehicles previously repaired under 14V-593 will need to have the new remedy performed.
- 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 120,688 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 93% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2013 to 2015, so the oldest vehicles on it were 9 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Chevrolet vehicles have been recalled over the latches/locks/linkages 14 times before this, most recently in August 2020 as 20V461000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 4 of the 5 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 401 complaints with NHTSA, 316 of them before this campaign was filed. 22 of those name the latches/locks/linkages, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2013, 9 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 August 25, 2022 as campaign 22V640000. 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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