2012 GMC Terrain defect investigations
Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2012 GMC Terrain. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.
- Momentary Increased Steering EffortPreliminary Evaluation PE20009 · opened Jun 1, 2020 · closed Jun 3, 2022
On June 1, 2020, the Office of Defects Investigations (ODI) opened PE20-009 to investigate instances of a momentary increase in steering effort after the vehicle is driven in a straight line for a period of time due to an issue with the steering gear in model year (MY) 2010 through 2012 Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrai…
- Front Wiper Transmission InoperativeEngineering Analysis EA19005 · opened Dec 13, 2019 · closed Nov 28, 2022 · led to recall 22V165000
On December 13, 2019, the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) upgraded RQ18-002 to an Engineering Analysis (EA19-005) to further assess the MY2010-2016 Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain windshield wiper failures. Due to a prior recall, 16V-582, addressing this issue in the MY2013 subject vehicles, MY2013 was not incl…
- Windshield Wiper Transmission FailureRecall Query RQ18002 · opened Nov 2, 2018 · closed Dec 19, 2019
On November 2, 2018, the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened a Recall Query (RQ18-002) to assess the scope of Recall 16V-582.General Motors (GM) initiated Safety Recall 16V-582 on August 3, 2016 to address windshield wiper failure in the Model Year (MY) 2013 Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain. Failures were att…