Chevrolet Silverado Ev, Gmc Sierra Ev, model year 2026. Filed by General Motors, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 30 July 2026. 952 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2026 Chevrolet Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV vehicles. A manufacturing defect may result in the steel wheels cracking at the disc vent holes.
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: N262556920. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V496 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 26V496 cover?
- Chevrolet Silverado Ev, GMC Sierra Ev, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2026 Chevrolet Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV vehicles. A manufacturing defect may result in the steel wheels cracking at the disc vent holes.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A cracked wheel may lead to disc separation and a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and replace the wheels as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 14, 2026. 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 N262556920.
- 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 N262556920, 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 cracked wheel may lead to disc separation and a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V496 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | General Motors, LLC |
| System at fault | Wheels |
| Reported to NHTSA | 30 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | CHEVROLET SILVERADO EV, GMC SIERRA EV |
What the notice says today
The defect
General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2026 Chevrolet Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV vehicles. A manufacturing defect may result in the steel wheels cracking at the disc vent holes.
The consequence
A cracked wheel may lead to disc separation and a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the wheels as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 14, 2026. 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 N262556920. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 30, 2026.
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 4582c289d828ed62b301ba234671feb0…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 191 notices in the record whose component field names wheels. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 30 days.
Last checked . 1 change recorded in the wording since we started reading it daily, the latest on 25 September 2026.
Changed since our daily reading began
25 September 2026: the remedy was rewritten. Before: Dealers will inspect and replace the wheels as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 14, 2026. 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 N262556920. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 30, 2026.
After: Dealers will inspect and replace the wheels as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 23, 2026. 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 N262556920. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 30, 2026.
Side by side
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V496, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v496/
The copy quoted above hashes to 4582c289d828ed62b301ba234671feb0…. 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.
Other General Motors notices we hold
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- 26V494: 2026 Cadillac Escalade IQ, Escalade IQL, GMC Sierra EV, and Chevrolet Silverado EV
- 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
- 26V304: 2025–2026 Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, Chevrolet Suburban 1500, Tahoe, GMC Yukon, and Yukon XL
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 26V496 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
d59e0102 - Consequence
2c706003 - 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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