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General Motors Recalls 3.64 Million Cars, Including Corvette and Caprice PPV

2014, also known as the year of record recalls and the year Old GM came back to haunt New GM, will forever be remembered as one of the lowest points of the automotive industry. The horrors of 2014 linger on, as proven by the 3.64-million recall we’ll talk about.
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Without further beating around the bush, General Motors has announced that it will be voluntarily recalling no less than 3.64 million vehicles of all shapes, sizes, and powertrains. The affected cars were all built from the model year 2014 up to the model year 2017. Curious what’s wrong with these vehicles?

As per the biggest manufacturer of the Big Three, the sensing and diagnostic module (SDM) is at fault. This device “controls airbag and pretensioners deployment,” and it “contains a software defect that may prevent the deployment of frontal airbags and pretensioners in certain rare circumstances when a crash is preceded by a specific event impacting vehicle dynamics.”

So yeah, if you own one of the vehicles we’ll list in the next paragraph, you should definitely ring up your nearest dealership for an appointment. The vehicles which should be fixed as soon as possible are the following:

2014 to 2016 model year Buick LaCrosse and Chevrolet SS and Spark EV, 2014 to 2017 model year Chevrolet Corvette, Trax, Caprice PPV and Silverado 1500, Buick Encore, and GMC Sierra 1500, as well as 2015 to 2017 model year Chevrolet Tahoe, Suburban and Silverado heavy-duty, GMC Yukon, Yukon XL and Sierra heavy-duty, Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV.

Mind my French, but that’s a helluva lot of nameplates, ranging from city cars to sports cars and heavy-duty pickup trucks. General Motors stated that it will notify customers as soon as possible, with the dealers instructed to update the faulty software that governs the SDM. Because it is just a software-related problem, GM doesn’t expect this recall to be material.

In the meantime, owners can check if their cars are affected by visiting the GM Owner Center website.
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About the author: Mircea Panait
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After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well.
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