Chevrolet Silverado 2500, Chevrolet Silverado 3500, Gmc Sierra 2500, Gmc Sierra 3500, model years 2020 to 2024. Filed by General Motors, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 1 February 2024. 570,434 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2020-2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500, 3500, GMC Sierra 2500 and 3500 vehicles equipped with power-unlatching tailgates. The tailgate's electronic gate-release switch may short circuit due to water intrusion, which can result in the tailgate inadvertently unlatching while the …
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: N232426400. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V060 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 24V060 cover?
- Chevrolet Silverado 2500, Chevrolet Silverado 3500, GMC Sierra 2500, GMC Sierra 3500, model years 2020-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2020-2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500, 3500, GMC Sierra 2500 and 3500 vehicles equipped with power-unlatching tailgates.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An unlatched tailgate may open while driving and result in a loss of unsecured cargo, creating a road hazard and increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised to check that the tailgate is closed and latched before driving. Dealers will replace the exterior touchpad switch assemblies, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 17, 2024.
- 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 N232426400, 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 unlatched tailgate may open while driving and result in a loss of unsecured cargo, creating a road hazard and increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24V060 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | General Motors, LLC |
| System at fault | Latches/Locks/Linkages:Tailgate:Latch |
| Reported to NHTSA | 1 February 2024 |
| Model years | 2020-2024 |
| Vehicles named | CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500, CHEVROLET SILVERADO 3500, GMC SIERRA 2500, GMC SIERRA 3500 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An unlatched tailgate may open while driving and result in a loss of unsecured cargo, creating a road hazard and increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Owners are advised to check that the tailgate is closed and latched before driving. Dealers will replace the exterior touchpad switch assemblies, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 17, 2024. Owners may contact Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020 or GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782. GM's number for this recall is N232426400.
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 237 notices in the record whose component field names latches/locks/linkages. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 49 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 2024061, recorded 1 February 2024 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on N232426400, 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
- Chevrolet Silverado 2500 recalls: 37 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Silverado 3500 recalls: 37 US campaigns
- GMC Sierra 2500 recalls: 35 US campaigns
- GMC Sierra 3500 recalls: 36 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 24V060, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v060/
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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All 474 General Motors campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
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 24V060 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
2337b247 - Consequence
8fd39719 - 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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