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Chevrolet Suburban, model years 2016 to 2017. Filed by General Motors LLC and reported to NHTSA on 12 January 2017. 214 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2016-2017 Chevrolet Suburban HD vehicles. These vehicles were assembled with a convex right-hand outside mirror, instead of with a non-convex (flat) right-hand outside mirror. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Safety Standard …

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.

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General Motors's own number for this recall: 17017. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V033 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 17V033 cover?
Chevrolet Suburban, model years 2016-2017.
What is wrong with them?
General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2016-2017 Chevrolet Suburban HD vehicles. These vehicles were assembled with a convex right-hand outside mirror, instead of with a non-convex (flat) right-hand outside mirror.
What can happen if it is not put right?
If equipped with the incorrect right-side rear-view mirror, the driver may misjudge the distance of other vehicles, 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 convex mirror with a non-convex mirror and provide a new page for the owner's manual with the customer notification letter, free of charge. The recall began February 7, 2017. Owners may contact GM customer service at 1-800-222-1020.
What should I do now?
Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. General Motors calls this recall 17017, 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 equipped with the incorrect right-side rear-view mirror, the driver may misjudge the distance of other vehicles, increasing the risk of a crash.”

214vehicles potentially
affected
1model named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 12 January 2017owners told 7 February 2017today
The defect reached the regulator on 12 January 2017. Owners were written to 26 days later, on 7 February 2017. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign was quicker than most.
Campaign17V033
Filed byGeneral Motors LLC
System at faultVisibility:Rearview Mirrors/Devices:Exterior
Reported to NHTSA12 January 2017
Model years2016-2017
Vehicles namedCHEVROLET SUBURBAN

What the notice says today

The consequence

If equipped with the incorrect right-side rear-view mirror, the driver may misjudge the distance of other vehicles, increasing the risk of a crash.

The remedy

GM will notify owners, and dealers will replace the convex mirror with a non-convex mirror and provide a new page for the owner's manual with the customer notification letter, free of charge. The recall began February 7, 2017. Owners may contact GM customer service at 1-800-222-1020. GM's number for this recall is 17017.

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 463 notices in the record whose component field names visibility. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 34 days.

Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.

The models named here, across their whole recall history

How to cite this record

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CarsMultiverse, recall 17V033, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v033/

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.

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