Recall · 23V845000
General Motors recalled the CHEVROLET Bolt EV over structure
6,771
Vehicles covered
1
Model
7
Model years
December 14, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY:ROOF AND PILLARS
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2017-2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV vehicles. This recall includes certain vehicles previously repaired incorrectly under NHTSA recall number 22V-930. After a crash with seat belt pretensioner deployment, the pretensioner exhaust may ignite carpet fibers near the B-pillar, causing a fire.
- What it can cause
- A fire increases the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect both front seat belt pretensioners and, if necessary, install metal foil at the carpet near the pretensioner exhaust. Certain vehicles will also need a pretensioner cover installed. Repairs will be performed free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 24, 2024. These vehicles were previously recalled for this same issue under recall number 22V-930 and will need to have the new remedy performed. Owners may contact GM EV Concierge at 1-833-EVCHEVY (1-833-382-4389) (TTY 711 / 1-800-833-2438) or Customer Service at 1-800-222-1020. GM's number for this recall is N232421970.
- 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 6,771 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 77% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2017 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 6 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Chevrolet vehicles have been recalled over the structure 21 times before this, most recently in December 2022 as 22V930000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 7 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 966 complaints with NHTSA, 663 of them before this campaign was filed. 11 of those name the structure, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in March 2017, 6 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 11 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V812000 (electrical system), 24V481000 (electrical system), 23V567000 (air bags), 22V930000 (structure).
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 December 14, 2023 as campaign 23V845000. 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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