Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac Escalade Esv, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Chevrolet Suburban, Chevrolet Tahoe, Gmc Sierra 1500, model years 2016 to 2017. Filed by General Motors LLC and reported to NHTSA on 28 April 2016. 3,738 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain model year 2016-2017 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and 2016 Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac Escalade ESV, Chevrolet Suburban, Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Sierra, GMC Yukon and GMC Yukon XL vehicles. The front upper control arms may have inadequate welds near the control arm bushing.
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: 42190. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V256 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 16V256 cover?
- Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac Escalade Esv, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Chevrolet Suburban, Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Sierra 1500, GMC Yukon, GMC Yukon XL, model years 2016-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain model year 2016-2017 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and 2016 Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac Escalade ESV, Chevrolet Suburban, Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Sierra, GMC Yukon and GMC Yukon XL vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Inadequate welds may allow the control arm to separate from the bushing, compromising steering and increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. GM will notify owners, and dealers will replace the left and right front upper control arms and realign the vehicle, free of charge. The recall began on May 18, 2016. Until the repairs have been made, owners are advised not to drive their vehicles.
- 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 42190, 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: “Inadequate welds may allow the control arm to separate from the bushing, compromising steering and increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V256 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | General Motors LLC |
| System at fault | Suspension:Front:Control Arm |
| Reported to NHTSA | 28 April 2016 |
| Model years | 2016-2017 |
| Vehicles named | CADILLAC ESCALADE, CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV, CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500, CHEVROLET SUBURBAN, CHEVROLET TAHOE, GMC SIERRA 1500, GMC YUKON, GMC YUKON XL |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all. NHTSA applies this to a small minority of campaigns. 28 of the 1,399 we currently hold.
What the notice says today
The consequence
Inadequate welds may allow the control arm to separate from the bushing, compromising steering and increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
GM will notify owners, and dealers will replace the left and right front upper control arms and realign the vehicle, free of charge. The recall began on May 18, 2016. Until the repairs have been made, owners are advised not to drive their vehicles. Owners may contact Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020, Cadillac customer service at 1-800-458-8006, or GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782. GM's number for this recall is 42190.
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 732 notices in the record whose component field names suspension. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 33 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 2016190, recorded 28 April 2016 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 42190, 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
- Cadillac Escalade recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Cadillac Escalade Esv recalls: 35 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Silverado 1500 recalls: 52 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Suburban recalls: 25 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Tahoe recalls: 32 US campaigns
- GMC Sierra 1500 recalls: 50 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 16V256, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v256/
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 16V256 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
7f11b006 - Consequence
2d69f552 - 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 16V256 · how the whole register is watched
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