Recall · 23V334000
General Motors recalled 3 models over air bags
995,085
Vehicles covered
3
Models
12
Model years
May 10, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2014-2017 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, and GMC Acadia vehicles. The driver's air bag inflator may explode during deployment, due to a manufacturing defect.
- What it can cause
- An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the driver's air bag module, free of charge. GM began mailing final owner letters February 23, 2024 and will continue mailing through December 2025. Owners may contact Buick customer service at 1-800-521-7300, Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020, or GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782. GM's number for this recall is N232404980.
- 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 995,085 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 99% 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 2017, 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 air bags 75 times before this, most recently in December 2022 as 22V929000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 12 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 3,935 complaints with NHTSA, 1,783 of them before this campaign was filed. 1,970 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in October 2013, 9 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 22V246000 (air bags), 21V782000 (air bags), 21V246000 (air bags).
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 May 10, 2023 as campaign 23V334000. 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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