Buick Regal, Malibu, Lacrosse. Published by Transport Canada as 2021510 on 12 August 2021. System: Suspension.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain vehicles, the protective coating on the rear suspension toe links may chip away. If this happens, the metal can rust and the toe link could break. A broken toe link can affect vehicle stability and could cause a loss of directional control.
Note: This recall is an expansion of Transport Canada …
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Buick REGAL in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Buick REGAL is named on 15 American notices and 7 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
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The Israeli register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2021510
- Recall date
- 12 August 2021
- Make
- Buick, Chevrolet
- Models
- Regal, Malibu, Lacrosse
- Model years
- 2013
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Suspension
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 685
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain vehicles, the protective coating on the rear suspension toe links may chip away. If this happens, the metal can rust and the toe link could break. A broken toe link can affect vehicle stability and could cause a loss of directional control.
Note: This recall is an expansion of Transport Canada recall 2020-615. This recall only affects vehicles that were originally sold or ever registered in areas of heavy road salt usage (Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland & Labrador).Safety Risk:
A loss of vehicle stability could cause a loss of control and increase the risk of a crash.Corrective Actions:
General Motors will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your vehicle to a dealer to replace the rear suspension toe links and adjuster fasteners.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2021510.
Buick elsewhere in this register
Buick is named on 326 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2021619 · 7 October 2021 · Enclave, Traverse · Airbag
- 2021365 · 10 June 2021 · Encore GX, Trailblazer · Accessories
- 2021348 · 3 June 2021 · Yukon XL, Escalade, Escalade Esv · Airbag
- 2021213 · 8 April 2021 · Traverse, Enclave, Acadia · Airbag
- 2021785 · 22 December 2021 · Regal · Suspension
- 2021151 · 15 March 2021 · Regal · Label
- 2021103 · 26 February 2021 · Savana, Express, Blazer · Tires
- 2022189 · 14 April 2022 · Acadia, Traverse, Enclave · Airbag
The same system: Suspension
746 notices in this register name Suspension. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2021519 · 9 August 2021 · Sl-Series End Dump Trailer, Tw-Series Side Dump Trailer, Xl-Series End Dump Trailer · Suspension
- 2021515 · 17 August 2021 · Olb - Live Bottom Trailer, Ashr - Belt Trailer · Suspension
- 2021516 · 18 August 2021 · Imagine · Suspension
- 2021470 · 29 July 2021 · Fec9t · Suspension
- 2021539 · 1 September 2021 · Boxster, Cayman · Suspension
- 2021438 · 16 July 2021 · Explorer, Police Interceptor Utility (explorer) · Suspension
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Buick Lacrosse, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Buick: 326 in the register, and 658 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2021.
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