{
  "owners": null,
  "title": "Bluecar recall 16V004: Model Year 2016 Bluecar Hybrid-Electric",
  "url": "https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v004/",
  "summary": "Recall 16V004 (Bluecar): If the gear shift lever breaks, the vehicle may become immobilized, increasing the risk of a crash.",
  "excerpt": "Bluecar Bluecar, model year 2016. Filed by Bluecar SAS and reported to NHTSA on 6 January 2016. 149 vehicles potentially affected. What the notice says Bluecar SAS (Bluecar) is recalling certain model year 2016 Bluecar hybrid-electric vehicles manufactured June 7, 2015, to September 11, 2015. The affected vehicles have a gear shift lever that may break preventing the car from maintaining the intended gear position. Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA , or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on. CarsMultiverse / Recalls Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on. What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “If the gear shift lever breaks, the vehicle may become immobilized, increasing the risk of a crash.” 16V004 Bluecar SAS Power Train:Automatic Transmission:Gear Position Indication (PRNDL) 6 January 2016 2016-2016 BLUECAR BLUECAR If the gear shift lever breaks, the vehicle may become immobilized, increasing the risk of a crash. Bluecar has notified the one purchaser of the affected vehicles and the remedy of replacing the gear shift with a newly designed gear lever has begun, free of charge. This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass. This is ",
  "register": {
    "authority": "NHTSA",
    "country": "United States",
    "index": "https://carsmultiverse.com/changed/"
  },
  "datePublished": "2026-08-23T17:59:52+00:00",
  "dateModified": "2026-09-16T10:16:42+00:00",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "citation": "CarsMultiverse, \"Bluecar recall 16V004: Model Year 2016 Bluecar Hybrid-Electric\", https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v004/, licensed CC BY 4.0.",
  "note": "CarsMultiverse is an independent record, not a safety authority. To act on a recall, use the official register."
}