Chevrolet Impala, Chevrolet Malibu, Chevrolet Malibu Classic, Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Oldsmobile Alero, Oldsmobile Intrigue, model years 1997 to 2008. Filed by General Motors LLC and reported to NHTSA on 3 July 2014. 5,877,718 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says This defect can affect the safe operation of the airbag system. Until this recall is performed, customers should remove all items from their key rings, leaving only the ignition key. The key fob (if applicable), should also be removed from the key ring. General Motors LLC (GM) notified the agency on July 3, 2014, that …
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: 14350. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V400 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 14V400 cover?
- Chevrolet Impala, Chevrolet Malibu, Chevrolet Malibu Classic, Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Oldsmobile Alero, Oldsmobile Intrigue, Pontiac Grand Am, Pontiac Grand Prix, model years 1997-2008.
- What is wrong with them?
- This defect can affect the safe operation of the airbag system. Until this recall is performed, customers should remove all items from their key rings, leaving only the ignition key. The key fob (if applicable), should also be removed from the key ring.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the key is not in the run position, the air bags may not deploy if the vehicle is involved in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. GM will notify owners, and dealers will install two key rings and an insert in the key slot or a cover over the key head on all ignition keys, free of charge. The recall began on September 9, 2014. GM's number for this recall is 14350.
- 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 14350, 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: “If the key is not in the run position, the air bags may not deploy if the vehicle is involved in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14V400 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | General Motors LLC |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Ignition |
| Reported to NHTSA | 3 July 2014 |
| Model years | 1997-2008 |
| Vehicles named | CHEVROLET IMPALA, CHEVROLET MALIBU, CHEVROLET MALIBU CLASSIC, CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO, OLDSMOBILE ALERO, OLDSMOBILE INTRIGUE, PONTIAC GRAND AM, PONTIAC GRAND PRIX |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the key is not in the run position, the air bags may not deploy if the vehicle is involved in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
GM will notify owners, and dealers will install two key rings and an insert in the key slot or a cover over the key head on all ignition keys, free of charge. The recall began on September 9, 2014. GM's number for this recall is 14350.
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 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2014284, recorded 3 July 2014 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 14350, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 14V400, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v400/
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 14V400 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
72c38a9d - Consequence
9f0587b3 - Remedy
869190ae
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.
The wording we hold for 14V400 · how the whole register is watched
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