Cadillac Xt5, Cadillac Xt6, Gmc Acadia, model years 2023 to 2024. Filed by General Motors, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 12 October 2023. 42 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2023 GMC Acadia and 2024 Cadilac XT5 and XT6 vehicles. The windshield may have been assembled without the proper urethane sealant required to bond the windshield to the vehicle body.
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: N232419690. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V681 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 23V681 cover?
- Cadillac XT5, Cadillac XT6, GMC Acadia, model years 2023-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2023 GMC Acadia and 2024 Cadilac XT5 and XT6 vehicles. The windshield may have been assembled without the proper urethane sealant required to bond the windshield to the vehicle body.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A windshield that is not properly bonded may detach during a crash and increase the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect the windshield and apply primer and urethane sealant. If the windshield is damaged, the dealer will replace it. Repairs will be performed free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 14, 2023.
- 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 N232419690, 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: “A windshield that is not properly bonded may detach during a crash and increase the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V681 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | General Motors, LLC |
| System at fault | Visibility:Windshield |
| Reported to NHTSA | 12 October 2023 |
| Model years | 2023-2024 |
| Vehicles named | CADILLAC XT5, CADILLAC XT6, GMC ACADIA |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A windshield that is not properly bonded may detach during a crash and increase the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect the windshield and apply primer and urethane sealant. If the windshield is damaged, the dealer will replace it. Repairs will be performed free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 14, 2023. Owners may contact Cadillac customer service at 1-800-458-8006 or GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782. GM's number for this recall is N232419690.
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 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 2023549, recorded 12 October 2023 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on N232419690, 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 XT5 recalls: 15 US campaigns
- Cadillac XT6 recalls: 12 US campaigns
- GMC Acadia recalls: 32 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 23V681, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v681/
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.
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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 23V681 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
45b17f31 - Consequence
81619b68 - 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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