Chevrolet has issued a security recall that applies to over 13,000 items of the Corvette constructed throughout the 2024 and 2025 mannequin years. The automobiles included within the marketing campaign had been probably constructed with defective seatbelt retractors, which will increase the chance of an harm within the occasion of an accident.
Assigned recall number 24V-418 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the recall consists of 13,464 examples of the Corvette constructed between September 18, 2023, and March 22, 2024. Chevrolet estimates that the issue is current in about 8% of these automobiles.
The corporate hasn’t introduced whether or not the problem is proscribed to a particular trim stage, variant, or physique fashion. Nevertheless, it defined that the recalled automobiles had been constructed with a driver-side and/or passenger-side seatbelt retractor that “can develop into locked in a stowed place” underneath sure situations. Put one other means, the motive force and/or the passenger aren’t in a position to safely buckle up if the retractor will get caught. Engineers linked the issue to 2 inside elements that “could also be barely out of dimensional specs,” based on the NHTSA.