Owners of this vehicle were written to on 24 August 2026. The remedy was reworded on 1 September 2026, 8 days later, so the letter described the earlier version. Both versions are shown on this page. Back to the campaign.
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Between 1 September 2026, 03:47 UTC and 1 September 2026, 11:00 UTC, the text of the remedy (what the manufacturer will do about it) on campaign 26V494, filed by General Motors, was replaced. The authority publishes one version at a time. This is both.
What changed
6 words were removed and 3 were added.
Removed from the earlier version
Added in the version now published
Both versions in full
As we read it on 1 September 2026
Dealers will replace the high voltage battery, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 14, 2026. Owners may contact Cadillac customer service at 1-800-333-4223, GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782, and Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020. GM's number for this recall is N262562600. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 30, 2026.
As we read it on 1 September 2026
Dealers will replace the high voltage battery, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 24, 2026. Owners may contact Cadillac customer service at 1-800-333-4223, GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782, and Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020. GM's number for this recall is N262562600. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 30, 2026.
Sealed
The version now published is fingerprinted, and that fingerprint is folded into a single number we publish once a day and cannot quietly recompute. It was fixed before you read this page. Follow the path below and you arrive at the seal we had already published: how the seal works.
The wording we publish for 26V494 is one of 1,470 notices sealed on 4 September 2026.
- Fingerprint of this notice
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- 1,420 of 1,470
- Seal published that day
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The audit path, 11 steps
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Cite this version
CarsMultiverse (A.I.T. Multiverse Consulting Ltd). "General Motors rewrote the remedy on recall 26V494, 1 September 2026." https://carsmultiverse.com/changed/26v494-remedy-2026-09-01/ Sealed 4 September 2026. Notice fingerprint 08d17308798af500626705834a00ca787c5ea76681d95d5e39687bf962bb9cde. Seal 5bbe3ba384f682a77c48eaa79102103516378da4f273b862d951b0d0d1163dab.
If this is your car
The fix itself was reworded. If this recall has already been carried out on your vehicle, it was carried out to whatever the instruction said at the time. If it has not been, book it - the repair is free either way.
A notice being edited is not by itself evidence of anything. Wording is corrected for ordinary reasons as well as significant ones, and we record that it changed without claiming to know why.
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We re-read the wording of every campaign we hold on a rolling cycle and keep a dated copy with a SHA-256 of the text. This page exists because the hash we recorded on 1 September 2026 no longer matched the one we took on 1 September 2026. Nothing here is an interpretation of what the manufacturer meant; it is the difference between two files.
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