General Motors and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have issued a recall for two (2) examples of the 2022 GMC Acadia over an issue related to the sensing diagnostic module.
The problem: in the two affected vehicles, the sensing diagnostic module may have been left in “manufacturing mode” and not activated at the assembly plant prior to shipment to the dealership. A sensing diagnostic module is used to detect when it is appropriate for the vehicle to deploy the airbags. It’s not clear why the sensing diagnostic module was not activated at the assembly plant.
The hazards: vehicles without a properly functioning sensing diagnostic module will not deploy the airbags in the event of a crash. As a result, vehicles with the condition mentioned above do not comply with the requirements of certain Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards relating to occupant crash protection.
The fix: both of the identified vehicles with this condition will be returned to the assembly plant to have the sensing diagnostic module activated. The GMC Acadia is produced exclusively at the GM Spring Hill Assembly plant in Tennessee.
Affected components: sensing diagnostic module (SDM), airbags.
Affected vehicles:
- 2022 GMC Acadia
Number of affected vehicles: two
Owners should: Both vehicles involved in this recall campaign are still in dealer inventory and therefore no owner notification letters will be mailed out. Regardless, dealers or GM customers with questions or concerns relating to this recall can reach out to GMC or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration directly using the contact information included below.
Contacts:
- GM recall number: N212344261
- NHTSA Campaign Number: 21V702000
- NHTSA Safety Hotline Contact: 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153)
- GMC Customer Service: 1-800-462-8782
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Lol I can’t wait until the suckers come on here saying bUt EvErY cAr CoMpAnY hAs PrObLeMs 🤣
Chance the owners of the TWO effected vehicles visiting GMA? 0.0000000009%
Sam?
The interesting thing is learning where the QA broke down.
The NHTSA recall paperwork says this is a result of 14 vehicles skipping the dynamic vehicle test (where they put the car on a chassis dyno and run tests) due to “temporary process changes implemented in response to the global semiconductor shortage”.
The big deal isn’t really a safety issue because the airbag light would be on and a dealer shouldn’t deliver a car like that, the big deal is that cars are skipping major safety and quality tests due to semiconductor shortage induced confusion.
They are in dealer inventory, so, there are no owners.
So two cars out of how many thousand and not even sold have a programing issue. What a non story.
Now do they really need to go all the way back or is it they will just pull them and not sell them due to possible liability should something not work later?
I imagine with the starting and stopping of the lines two vehicles got past the end of the line where they check all the programming. Easy to do if you are not sure if the model just came in or was just leaving based on the last shift. Humans are still involved and problems will happen.
Watch they will donate them to a Vocational School some place to me messes with and scrapped.