GM has issued a safety recall for select units of the 2024 Corvette and 2025 Corvette units over seat belt retractors that may lock in a stowed position and become unusable for occupants.
The problem: affected Chevy Corvette units may have been built with a driver and/or passenger seat belt retractor that can become locked in a stowed position under certain conditions. More specifically, two internal components of the retractor may be out of dimensional specifications, and if it’s the case with both of those components, the belt could become locked after being fully extended to engage the Automatic Locking Retractor (ALR) function. A locked seat belt would thus be unusable, obviously creating a safety risk for vehicle occupants.
The hazards: occupants aboard the affected 2024 Corvette and 2025 Corvette units won’t be able to use the seat belts, greatly increasing the risk of injury in the event of a collision.
The fix: GM dealer will replace the defective Chevy Corvette seat belt retractors, which are provided by supplier ZF Group located in Livonia, Michigan. The fix will be covered under the vehicle’s warranty at no charge to the owners. However, as of June 6th, 2024, parts aren’t yet available.
Affected components: driver and/or passenger seat belt retractors.
Affected vehicles:
- 2024 Chevy Corvette
- 2025 Chevy Corvette
Number of affected vehicles: a total of 13,464 units of the 2024 Corvette and 2025 Corvette are reported to be affected by this safety recall. These units were built between September 18th, 2023 and March 22nd, 2024. Until the fix is performed, affected 2024MY vehicles cannot be delivered to customers. There should be no 2025 Corvette units in consumers’ hands or on dealer lots as of June 6th, 2024, as only pre-production or Capture Test Fleet vehicles have likely been built so far.
Owners should: General Motors will begin notifying owners of affected vehicles via letter on July 22nd, 2024, and instruct them to make an appointment with their local GM dealer. Any owners who are unsure whether or not their vehicle is affected by this recall can visit my.gm.com/recalls and type in their VIN to see any open recalls or other actions that may be active on it. Owners can also reach out to Chevy or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) directly with any questions or concerns they may have using the recall number and contact information included below.
Contacts:
- GM recall numbers: N242441390, N242441391, N242441392
- Chevy Customer Service: 1-800-222-1020
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Comments
GM quality, what a joke and embarrassment for a flagship model! 13k plus and repair parts not available yet. Cheapest parts from lowest bidder.
It must be the 1980’s again when every other car had seat belt issues
2025’s can’t even be ordered yet how can there be seat belt recalls on them?
Here we go again…why do things have to change and always for the worse it seems. It’s obviously a supplier problem, and usually it’s a parts supplier problem to the supplier that physically assembles the part and ships it to the factory for installation into the vehicle and as usual the easiest one to blame is the factory.
When I worked at the GM Van Nuys Assembly plant as a Quality Control Tech and as an Inspection Department Supervisor I can’t begin to tell you the many concerns and problems we’d have trying to assemble our Camaro’s and Firebird’s when we’d have to run a trace back to see where the faulty part came from. With many thousands of parts and suppliers continually be used on a daily basis (two shifts producing 60 cars an hour) doesn’t leave you much time to figure out why something doesn’t fit right or doesn’t work as it’s supposed to according to all of our blueprints and assembly manuals!
I know things have improved a lot since the 1980’s and 1990’s but I can bet you my next SS check that suppliers concerns are still in existence through tout the auto industry cause what I’m seeing here with these seat belt retractor problem is so very familiar with the problems we had “back in the day” , something changes causing a major problem and nine times out of ten, it’s the suppliers who make a change to save their cost that creates these sort of concerns for everyone and sadly it’s never the suspect supplier that has to bear the brunt of the bad publicity their product causes for the manufacturers! The more things change the more things stay the same. Ok, ‘ nuff said
Well said Rick , I too worked for GM back in the day. What people complain about is understood.Things go wrong , just try and minimize it all. If the ones thinks it’s easy, build your own car or truck. Just be patient and understanding. Ferrari’s break, and they cost a few dollars more the a Corvette. In this case I would pay for a 4 point safety belt. Not convenient at all. Everything manual.