NHTSA Campaign 15V162000
EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS
NHTSA campaign 15V162000 covers 2 year-make-model versions listed here and concerns the equipment: other: labels. The repair is free.
General Motors LLC filed the report for 15V162000 with NHTSA on March 20, 2015; the manufacturer initiated the recall.
For 15V162000, NHTSA lists up to 19,831 potentially affected vehicles, built between October 13, 2014 and February 3, 2015.
The 15V162000 report reached NHTSA 1 month after the last affected vehicle was built.
Owner notification letters for 15V162000 were scheduled from April 29, 2015, 40 days after the report.
15V162000 covers 2 models from Chevrolet and Buick, model years 2015.
By potentially affected vehicles, 15V162000 ranks 108 of 243 General Motors LLC recalls on this site.
Besides 15V162000, General Motors LLC has 8 other recalls on the equipment on this site; the one before 15V162000 was 14V417000, reported on July 2, 2014.
What this recall covers
- The defect
- General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain model year 2015 Buick Encore vehicles manufactured August 26, 2014, to February 9, 2015, and 2015 Chevrolet Trax vehicles manufactured October 13, 2014, to February 3, 2015. The affected vehicles have tire placards that do not provide the rim size information for the front or rear wheels. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 110, "Tire Selection and Rims and Motor Home/Recreation Vehicle Trailer Load Carrying Capacity Information for Motor Vehicles with a GVWR of 4,536 kilograms (10,000 pounds) or less."
- The risk
- If the label is missing front and rear rim size information, the owner may replace the rims with ones that are an incorrect size, increasing the risk of crash.
- The fix
- GM will notify owners, and will send owners a corrected label, free of charge. The recall April 29, 2015. Owners may contact Buick customer service at 1-800-521-7300, and Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020. GM's number for this recall is 15166.
Reported March 20, 2015
Vehicles covered by 15V162000 (2)
Chevrolet (1)
Buick (1)
Being on this list means your year, make and model fall inside campaign 15V162000, 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: March 20, 2015. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted