NHTSA Campaign 12V522000
AIR BAGS
NHTSA campaign 12V522000 covers 3 year-make-model versions listed here and concerns the air bags. The repair is free.
General Motors LLC filed the report for 12V522000 with NHTSA on October 31, 2012; the manufacturer initiated the recall.
For 12V522000, NHTSA lists up to 2,949 potentially affected vehicles.
Owner notification letters for 12V522000 were scheduled from January 11, 2013, 72 days after the report.
12V522000 covers 3 models from Buick and Chevrolet, model years 2012.
Owners of the model years 12V522000 covers have filed at least 61 complaints naming the air bags, about this defect or others in the same group.
Among the 12V522000 vehicles, the 2012 Chevrolet Sonic has the most (34).
By potentially affected vehicles, 12V522000 ranks 159 of 243 General Motors LLC recalls on this site.
Besides 12V522000, General Motors LLC has 42 other recalls on the air bags on this site.
What this recall covers
- The defect
- General Motors is recalling certain model year 2012 Buick Verano, Chevrolet Cruze, and Chevrolet Sonic vehicles. The driver side frontal air bag has a shorting bar which may intermittently contact the air bag terminals.
- The risk
- If the bar and terminals are contacting each other at the time of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal airbag, that airbag will not deploy, increasing the driver's risk of injury.
- The fix
- General Motors will notify owners, and dealers will replace the steering wheel airbag coil, free of charge. The safety recall began on January 11, 2013. Owners may contact General Motors at 1-800-521-7300.
- Notes
- This is General Motors recall number 12261.
Reported October 31, 2012
Vehicles covered by 12V522000 (3)
Chevrolet (2)
Buick (1)
Being on this list means your year, make and model fall inside campaign 12V522000, not that your own vehicle does: a campaign covers a range of VINs. A VIN check on NHTSA's lookup shows whether it is.
Newest record on this page: October 31, 2012. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted