Recall · 25V856000
General Motors recalled the GMC Canyon over air bags
1,120
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
December 11, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2024–2026 GMC Canyon AT4X AEV vehicles. Incorrect sensing and diagnostic module (SDM) software may cause a second stage passenger air bag deployment when only a first stage is intended. As such, these vehicles fail to conform to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 208, “Occupant Crash Protection."
- What it can cause
- An air bag that deploys improperly increases the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the SDM software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 30, 2026. Owners may contact GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782. GM's number for this recall is N252533510. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on December 11, 2025.
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 1,120 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 60% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2024 to 2026, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
GMC vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 40 times before this, most recently in November 2025 as 25V769000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 219 complaints with NHTSA, 190 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in April 2024, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 26V114000 (equipment), 24V673000 (exterior lighting), 24V491000 (fuel system, gasoline).
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 11, 2025 as campaign 25V856000. 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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