Full-Size GM SUVs Recalled Due To Possibility Of Fuel Pump Failure
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A recall has been issued for certain 2021 model-year GM SUVs due to a control module problem that may lead to a fuel pump failure.
The problem: in affected GM SUVs, the fuel pump power control module may have an issue that can cause the fuel pump to fail or operate intermittently. This condition may interrupt fuel flow to the engine and cause a sudden and unexpected engine stall.
The hazards: an engine stall would shut off certain power electronics in the vehicle and cause the vehicle to decelerate suddenly. This would therefore increase the risk of a crash.
The fix: dealers will be instructed to replace the fuel pump power control module in affected GM SUVs. These repairs will be performed at no cost to the vehicle owner.
Affected components: fuel pump, fuel pump power control module.
Affected vehicles:
- 2021 Cadillac Escalade
- 2021 Cadillac Escalade ESV
- 2021 Chevy Tahoe
- 2021 Chevy Suburban
- 2021 GMC Yukon
- 2021 GMC Yukon XL
Number of affected vehicles: a total of 14,939 units are believed to have this condition.
Owners should: owners of affected GM SUVs will be contacted by the automaker and instructed to make an appointment with their dealer. Notification letters will be mailed to these owners starting on November 8th, 2021. Those who may be unsure whether or not their vehicle is affected by this recall can visit my.gm.com/recalls and type in their VIN to view any open recalls or other actions that may be active on it. Affected owners can also reach out to GM or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration directly with any questions and concerns they may have using the contact information included below.
Contacts:
- GM recall number: N212332040
- NHTSA Campaign Number: 21V739000
- Chevrolet Customer Service: 1-800-222-1020
- GMC Customer Service: 1-800-462-8782
- Cadillac Customer Service: 1-877-248-2080
- NHTSA Toll Free: 1-888-327-4236
- NHTSA (TTY): 1-800-424-9153
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Does the penny pinching ever end?
Leave it to GM to make a very expensive vehicle and still use made in China fuel pumps. Do you ever hear of a failure like this for Toyota?
Nope because unlike the Americans the Japanese believe in quality, integrity and value for $$$
Actually Toyota has recalled a massive number of vehicles for fuel pumps that can fail while you’re driving. Including the 2019 Highlander I own. I love how all these armchair experts think auto makers should just be able to make something with thousands of parts, and there should never ever be a single thing wrong. Considering how complex today’s cars are, the auto makers are doing a pretty darn good job making quality products.
Somehow 15-20 years ago automakers could make vehicles with fuel pumps that last 150,000+ miles.
Must of been magic back in the 2000s but by all means keep enabling the lowering of quality by the automakers.
Nope. Nothing to do with cheap. Has all to do with laws.
First, there’s legally mandated ethanol in gas. Lowers the lubricity of the fuel and attracts water, which leads to corrosion. Add high pressure direct injection pumps which require more consistent pressure from the lift pump, or else they cavitate and destroy themselves.
On the diesel side, ultra-low sulfur diesel lowers lubricity, while mandatory biodiesel content increases fuel acidity, again leading to corrosion.
A solution is brushless DC motors, which last longer and use less power (fuel economy), but require drive electronics which, as you see here, fail.
“Nothing to do with cheap. Has all to do with laws.”
Then tell me how my 89 Dodge has been on the road all these years and has never had the fuel pump replaced once in its life? It’s laughable that you think the solution to this problem is throwing more money and more complex computer-filled designs at something to try and solve an issue that would not be an issue if you just keep it simple. Build quality products or build no products. Take your pick. Stop dodging the issue that modern cars made from Tupperware are built to sell more parts and built to break.
My 2018 Sienna has a recall to fix a fuel pump issue.
According to NHTSA paperwork, the failure is due to an American made electronic fuel pump driver, supplied by the German Vitesco Technologies (formerly Continental Powertrain).
While you’re being wrong, Google “Denso fuel pump recall” as mentioned. Hit Toyota, Subaru, Honda, and others. They used the wrong plastic on 2 million fuel pumps.
what engine is this in???? 6.2……or Duramax
Yeah, good question, the article needs more detail as it is obviously a certain engine type. The number of affected units is small in comparison to the total produced for that model year.
Wonderful, another recall!!! It would have been helpful if they supplied the build month range. Although, as we’ve found out already, every time they do it’s never a wide enough range to include all vehicles affected!
I buy a new Yukon XL Denali every 2-3 years. The 2021 is hands down the one with the most recalls!!
Buying cheap parts has to end! If they want to keep building them that cheap, they should knock 50K off the price!!
Should of bought an early 2000s Yukon and kept it.
“I buy a new Yukon XL Denali every 2-3 years”
That’s your problem because you don’t know how to keep an old car that works and keep buying new trash that doesn’t. I bought my one and only car new in 89 for $15k and have never driven anything else because I take care of it.
Get off my lawn, dangnabit!
GM WILL BEAT CHRYSLER SOON ON BEING THE RECALL KING OF THE BIG 3. i HAVE SAID IT BEFORE AND ILL SAY IT AGAIN, GM MAKES CHEAP TRUCKS AND SUVS, AND THEY ARE RATTLE BOXS WITH ALL THE BLOWN PLASTIC
My fiance owns an MKZ 2019 Lincoln, he came out of a supermarket and could not start his car had to have it towed to the dealer and they could not find a thing wrong with it. We went out one day shopping and as we were entering a main road with traffic coming both ways at us his car stalled out and would not start. We could have been killed. It turned out to be a faulty fuel pump.