Buick Regal, Chevrolet Impala, Chevrolet Lumina, Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Oldsmobile Intrigue, Pontiac Grand Prix, model years 1997 to 2004. Filed by General Motors LLC and reported to NHTSA on 26 October 2015. 1,003,556 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain model year 1998-1999 Chevrolet Lumina and Oldsmobile Intrigue, 1997-2004 Buick Regal and Pontiac Grand Prix, 2000-2004 Chevrolet Impala, and 1998-2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo vehicles. The affected vehicles were previously repaired under recalls 08V-118, 09V-116, and 15V-201 …
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: 15757. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 15V701 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 15V701 cover?
- Buick Regal, Chevrolet Impala, Chevrolet Lumina, Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Oldsmobile Intrigue, Pontiac Grand Prix, model years 1997-2004.
- What is wrong with them?
- General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain model year 1998-1999 Chevrolet Lumina and Oldsmobile Intrigue, 1997-2004 Buick Regal and Pontiac Grand Prix, 2000-2004 Chevrolet Impala, and 1998-2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Engine oil that drips onto the hot surface of the exhaust manifold may result in a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. The remedy applied under recalls 08V-118, 09V-116, and 15V-201 did not adequately remove the safety risk. Under the improved remedy, dealers will replace the engines front valve cover and gasket.
- 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 15757, 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: “Engine oil that drips onto the hot surface of the exhaust manifold may result in a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 15V701 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | General Motors LLC |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling:Engine |
| Reported to NHTSA | 26 October 2015 |
| Model years | 1997-2004 |
| Vehicles named | BUICK REGAL, CHEVROLET IMPALA, CHEVROLET LUMINA, CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO, OLDSMOBILE INTRIGUE, PONTIAC GRAND PRIX |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Engine oil that drips onto the hot surface of the exhaust manifold may result in a fire.
The remedy
The remedy applied under recalls 08V-118, 09V-116, and 15V-201 did not adequately remove the safety risk. Under the improved remedy, dealers will replace the engines front valve cover and gasket. Vehicles that are covered by recalls 08V-118, 09V-116, or 15V-201 that have not yet received the original remedy will instead receive the improved remedy under the original recall number. The recall began on February 19, 2016. Owners may contact Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020, Buick customer service at 1-800-521-7300, Oldsmobile customer service at 1-800-442-6537 and Pontiac customer service at 1-800-458-8006. GM's number for this recall is 15757. Note: Until the improved remedy has been applied, owners are advised to park their vehicle outside since the fire risk exists even when the vehicle is unattended.
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 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 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 2015501, recorded 23 October 2015 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 15757, 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 15V701, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/15v701/
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 15V701 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
fe99dc83 - Consequence
c6402fb5 - Remedy
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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.
The wording we hold for 15V701 · how the whole register is watched
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