Recall · 23V339000
General Motors recalled 2 models over child seat
668,187
Vehicles covered
2
Models
8
Model years
May 11, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
CHILD SEAT:VEHICLE LATCH ANCHOR
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2020-2023 Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain vehicles. The four rear-seat lower child seat LATCH anchorage bars may have excessive powder coating, which could prevent a child seat from being installed with the anchorage bars. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 225, "Child Restraint Anchorage Systems."
- What it can cause
- The inability to install a child seat with the LATCH anchorage bars could result in an unsecured child seat, increasing the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Owners are advised to install child seats using the vehicle's rear seat belts until the remedy is complete. Dealers will inspect the latch anchorage bars, and remove and replace the finish, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 2, 2023. Owners may contact Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020 or GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782. GM's number for this recall is N232403240.
- 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 668,187 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 2020 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Chevrolet vehicles have been recalled over the child seat 3 times before this, most recently in August 2017 as 17V487000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 8 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 971 complaints with NHTSA, 210 of them before this campaign was filed. 1 of those name the child seat, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2019, 3 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 7 other recalls published here, the newest being: 23V013000 (fuel system, gasoline), 22V929000 (air bags), 22V724000 (seats), 22V359000 (seats).
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 11, 2023 as campaign 23V339000. 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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