Chevrolet Equinox, Gmc Terrain, Gmc Terrain Na, model years 2021 to 2022. Filed by General Motors, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 5 August 2021. 9,597 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2021-2022 Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain vehicles equipped with certain Hankook tires. The tires may have been manufactured with an insufficient amount of curative agent, which could cause tread separation.
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.
General Motors's own number for this recall: N212343560. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V612 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 21V612 cover?
- Chevrolet Equinox, GMC Terrain, GMC Terrain Na, model years 2021-2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2021-2022 Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain vehicles equipped with certain Hankook tires. The tires may have been manufactured with an insufficient amount of curative agent, which could cause tread separation.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Tread separation can result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect the tire DOT numbers, and replace any affected tires, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on August 31, 2021. Owners may contact GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782; and Chevrolet 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 N212343560, 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: “Tread separation can result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V612 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | General Motors, LLC |
| System at fault | Tires |
| Reported to NHTSA | 5 August 2021 |
| Model years | 2021-2022 |
| Vehicles named | CHEVROLET EQUINOX, GMC TERRAIN, GMC TERRAIN NA |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Tread separation can result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect the tire DOT numbers, and replace any affected tires, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on August 31, 2021. Owners may contact GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782; and Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020. GM's number for this recall is N212343560.
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 455 notices in the record whose component field names tires. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 34 days.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
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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 21V612 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
5ff90263 - Consequence
c0e51bbb - 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.
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