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Buick Verano, Chevrolet Cruze, model year 2014. Filed by General Motors, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 20 September 2023. 9,264 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2014 Buick Verano and Chevrolet Cruze vehicles. The left and/or right-side roof-rail air bag (RRAB) inflators located on the roof rails above the headliner, may rupture at the inflator weld joint.

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: N232408490. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V674 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 23V674 cover?
Buick Verano, Chevrolet Cruze, model year 2014.
What is wrong with them?
General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2014 Buick Verano and Chevrolet Cruze vehicles. The left and/or right-side roof-rail air bag (RRAB) inflators located on the roof rails above the headliner, may rupture at the inflator weld joint.
What can happen if it is not put right?
An inflator that ruptures may partially inflate the air bag and cause sharp metal fragments to enter or exit the vehicle, increasing the risk of an injury.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the left and/or right-side RRAB modules, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 12, 2024. Owners may contact Buick customer service at 1-800-521-7300 or Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020. GM's number for this recall is N232408490.
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 N232408490, 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: “An inflator that ruptures may partially inflate the air bag and cause sharp metal fragments to enter or exit the vehicle, increasing the risk of an injury.”

9,264vehicles potentially
affected
2models named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 20 September 2023owners told 12 July 2024today
The defect reached the regulator on 20 September 2023. Owners were written to 296 days later, on 12 July 2024. 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 is in the slowest tenth of the register.
Campaign23V674
Filed byGeneral Motors, LLC
System at faultAir Bags:Side/Window
Reported to NHTSA20 September 2023
Model years2014-2014
Vehicles namedBUICK VERANO, CHEVROLET CRUZE

What the notice says today

The consequence

An inflator that ruptures may partially inflate the air bag and cause sharp metal fragments to enter or exit the vehicle, increasing the risk of an injury.

The remedy

Dealers will replace the left and/or right-side RRAB modules, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 12, 2024. Owners may contact Buick customer service at 1-800-521-7300 or Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020. GM's number for this recall is N232408490.

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 846 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 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 23V674, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v674/

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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