Recall · 26V329000
General Motors recalled 6 models over air bags
5,014
Vehicles covered
6
Models
9
Model years
May 21, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- The defect
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2015 Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, XTS, 2015-2016 Cadillac ATS, CTS, and SRX vehicles. The front-driver air bag inflator may rupture during deployment.
- What it can cause
- An inflator rupture 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 front-driver air bag module, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed June 19, 2026. Additional letters will be mailed once the remedy is available. Owners may contact Cadillac customer service at 1-800-333-4223. The manufacturer's number for this recall is N262555870. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on May 21, 2026.
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 5,014 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 74% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2015 to 2016, so the oldest vehicles on it were 11 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Cadillac vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 24 times before this, most recently in May 2024 as 24V311000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 866 complaints with NHTSA, 850 of them before this campaign was filed. 26 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 January 2015, 11 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 26V289000 (power train), 25V175000 (steering), 21V473000 (suspension).
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 21, 2026 as campaign 26V329000. 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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