NHTSA Campaign 13V023000
AIR BAGS
NHTSA campaign 13V023000 covers 4 year-make-model versions listed here and concerns the air bags. The repair is free.
General Motors LLC filed the report for 13V023000 with NHTSA on January 24, 2013; NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation influenced the recall.
For 13V023000, NHTSA lists up to 4,167 potentially affected vehicles.
Owner notification letters for 13V023000 were scheduled from February 13, 2013, 20 days after the report.
13V023000 covers 4 models from Buick and Chevrolet, model years 2012.
Owners of the model years 13V023000 covers have filed at least 83 complaints naming the air bags, about this defect or others in the same group.
Among the 13V023000 vehicles, the 2012 Chevrolet Sonic has the most (34).
By potentially affected vehicles, 13V023000 ranks 147 of 243 General Motors LLC recalls on this site.
Besides 13V023000, General Motors LLC has 42 other recalls on the air bags on this site; the one before 13V023000 was 12V522000, reported on October 31, 2012.
What this recall covers
- The defect
- General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain model year 2012 Chevrolet Camaro, Cruze and Sonic, and model year 2012 Buick Verano 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 air bag, that air bag will not deploy, increasing the driver's risk of injury.
- The fix
- GM will notify owners, and dealers will replace the steering wheel air bag coil, free of charge. The safety recall began on February 13, 2013. Owners may contact General Motors at 1-800-521-7300.
- Notes
- This is General Motors recall number 12261 and is an expansion of NHTSA recall 12V-522.
Reported January 24, 2013
Vehicles covered by 13V023000 (4)
Buick (1)
Being on this list means your year, make and model fall inside campaign 13V023000, 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: January 24, 2013. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted