Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac Escalade Esv, Cadillac Escalade Ext, Chevrolet Avalanche 1500, Chevrolet Express, Chevrolet Silverado, model year 2013. Filed by General Motors LLC and reported to NHTSA on 2 January 2013. 54,686 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says General Motors (GM) is recalling certain model year 2013 Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, and Escalade EXT; Chevrolet Avalanche, Express, Silverado HD, Silverado LD, Suburban, and Tahoe; and GMC Savana, Sierra HD, Sierra LD, Yukon, and Yukon XL vehicles, manufactured between November 7, 2012, through December 18, …
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.
The maker's own number for this recall: 12331. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 13V001 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 13V001 cover?
- Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac Escalade Esv, Cadillac Escalade Ext, Chevrolet Avalanche 1500, Chevrolet Express, Chevrolet Silverado, Chevrolet Suburban, Chevrolet Tahoe, model year 2013.
- What is wrong with them?
- General Motors (GM) is recalling certain model year 2013 Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, and Escalade EXT; Chevrolet Avalanche, Express, Silverado HD, Silverado LD, Suburban, and Tahoe; and GMC Savana, Sierra HD, Sierra LD, Yukon, and Yukon XL vehicles, manufactured between November 7, 2012,...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- As a result, the vehicle may shift from Park with the ignition key removed or the ignition key in the OFF position. The vehicle may also shift out of Park without application of the brake pedal while the key is off.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. GM will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the affected vehicles and replace the steering column as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on January 21, 2013. Chevrolet owners may call 1-800-630-2438. Cadillac owners may call 1-866-982-2339. GMC owners may call 1-866-996-9463.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall 12331, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
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: “As a result, the vehicle may shift from Park with the ignition key removed or the ignition key in the OFF position. The vehicle may also shift out of Park without application of the brake pedal while the key is off. Either of these scenario…”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 13V001 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | General Motors LLC |
| System at fault | Steering:Column Locking:Anti-Theft Device |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 January 2013 |
| Model years | 2013-2013 |
| Vehicles named | CADILLAC ESCALADE, CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV, CADILLAC ESCALADE EXT, CHEVROLET AVALANCHE 1500, CHEVROLET EXPRESS, CHEVROLET SILVERADO, CHEVROLET SUBURBAN, CHEVROLET TAHOE, GMC SAVANA, GMC SIERRA, GMC YUKON, GMC YUKON XL |
What the notice says today
The consequence
As a result, the vehicle may shift from Park with the ignition key removed or the ignition key in the OFF position. The vehicle may also shift out of Park without application of the brake pedal while the key is off. Either of these scenarios may cause the vehicle to roll away after the driver has exited the vehicle, resulting in a possible vehicle crash and/or injury.
The remedy
GM will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the affected vehicles and replace the steering column as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on January 21, 2013. Chevrolet owners may call 1-800-630-2438. Cadillac owners may call 1-866-982-2339. GMC owners may call 1-866-996-9463.
What it said before
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 one of 745 notices in the record whose component field names steering. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 39 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Cadillac Escalade recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Cadillac Escalade Esv recalls: 35 US campaigns
- Cadillac Escalade Ext recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Avalanche 1500 recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Express recalls: 31 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Silverado recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Suburban recalls: 25 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Tahoe recalls: 32 US campaigns
- GMC Savana recalls: 29 US campaigns
- GMC Sierra recalls: 20 US campaigns
- GMC Yukon recalls: 46 US campaigns
- GMC Yukon XL recalls: 34 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 13V001, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/13v001/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 13V001 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9d28a45f - Consequence
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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