Recall · 23V516000
General Motors recalled 4 models over air bags
767
Vehicles covered
4
Models
4
Model years
July 27, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2013 Buick Verano, Chevrolet Camero, Sonic, and Volt vehicles. The driver-side 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-side air bag module, free of charge. On some 2013 Volt vehicles, the steering wheel will be replaced as well, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 23, 2023. Owners may contact Buick customer service at 1-800-521-7300 and Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020. GM's number for this recall is N232413120.
- 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 767 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 55% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2013, so the oldest vehicles on it were 10 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Chevrolet vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 76 times before this, most recently in May 2023 as 23V334000. 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 819 complaints with NHTSA, 749 of them before this campaign was filed. 217 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 September 2012, 10 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 July 27, 2023 as campaign 23V516000. 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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