Level: Serious risk
Type: Consumer products
Ref.: A12/1236/16
Notifying country: Germany
Country of origin: United States
Counterfeit:
Risk type: Injuries
Product: Passenger cars
Product name: Escalade / Escalade ESV / Corvette / Encore / LaCrosse / Caprice / Silverado / Trax / Spark EV / SS / Suburban / Tahoe / Sierra / Yukon / Yukon XL
Product description: Passenger cars.
Brand: Cadillac / Chevrolet / Buick / GMC
Category: Motor vehicles
Type/number of model: European models: Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, EC type-approval: e13*2007/46*1479*00, type: K2XX; Chevrolet Corvette, EC type-approval: e13*KS07/46*1275*00, type: Y1BC.
Batch number/Barcode: The vehicles concerned were manufactured between 2013 and 2016.
OECD Portal Category: 77000000 - Automotive
Risk: Due to a software problem, the frontal airbags and seatbelt pretensioners may not deploy correctly, which may increase the risk of injury to occupants in the event of a crash.
Measures adopted by notifying country: Measures taken by economic operators: Recall of the product from end users (By: Manufacturer)
Products were found and measures were taken also in:: The Netherlands