Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac Escalade Esv, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Chevrolet Suburban, Chevrolet Tahoe, Gmc Sierra 1500, model years 2021 to 2024. Filed by General Motors, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 24 April 2025. 597,571 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2021-2024 Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Suburban, and Tahoe, GMC Sierra 1500, Yukon, and Yukon XL vehicles equipped with a 6.2L V8 gas engine. The connecting rod and/or crankshaft engine components may have manufacturing defects that can lead …
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: N252494000. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V274 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 25V274 cover?
- Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac Escalade Esv, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Chevrolet Suburban, Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Sierra 1500, GMC Yukon, GMC Yukon XL, model years 2021-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2021-2024 Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Suburban, and Tahoe, GMC Sierra 1500, Yukon, and Yukon XL vehicles equipped with a 6.2L V8 gas engine.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Engine failure increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect the engine, and as necessary, repair or replace the engine. For vehicles that pass inspection, dealers will add higher viscosity oil, install 6 oil fill cap, replace the oil filter, and update the owner's manual. Repairs will be performed free of charge.
- 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 N252494000, 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: “Engine failure increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V274 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | General Motors, LLC |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling:Engine:Hard Parts Internal/Mechanical |
| Reported to NHTSA | 24 April 2025 |
| Model years | 2021-2024 |
| Vehicles named | CADILLAC ESCALADE, CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV, CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500, CHEVROLET SUBURBAN, CHEVROLET TAHOE, GMC SIERRA 1500, GMC YUKON, GMC YUKON XL |
What the notice says today
The defect
General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2021-2024 Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Suburban, and Tahoe, GMC Sierra 1500, Yukon, and Yukon XL vehicles equipped with a 6.2L V8 gas engine. The connecting rod and/or crankshaft engine components may have manufacturing defects that can lead to engine damage and engine failure.
The consequence
Engine failure increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect the engine, and as necessary, repair or replace the engine. For vehicles that pass inspection, dealers will add higher viscosity oil, install 6 oil fill cap, replace the oil filter, and update the owner's manual. Repairs will be performed free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 18, 2025. Owners may contact Cadillac customer service at 1-800-333-4223, Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020, or GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782. GM's number for this recall is N252494000.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to a74461cd1a4a4db6432c6a7f278ef141…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Cadillac Escalade recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Cadillac Escalade Esv recalls: 35 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Silverado 1500 recalls: 52 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Suburban recalls: 25 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Tahoe recalls: 32 US campaigns
- GMC Sierra 1500 recalls: 50 US campaigns
- GMC Yukon recalls: 46 US campaigns
- GMC Yukon XL recalls: 34 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 25V274, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v274/
The copy quoted above hashes to a74461cd1a4a4db6432c6a7f278ef141…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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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- 26V399: 2025-2026 Express, and 2025-2026 Savana
- 26V394: 2026-2027 Cadillac Vistiq
- 26V345: 2026 Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana
- 26V329: 2015 Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, XTS, 2015-2016 Cadillac ATS, CTS, and SRX
- 26V325: 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, GMC Sierra 1500, 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 2500, Silverado 3500, GMC Sierra 2500, and Sierra 3500
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 25V274 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
d520753f - Consequence
8c8aa6e1 - 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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