Suzuki Grand Vitara Recalls
The Grand Vitara has been recalled 16 times. The 2001 and 2006 model years have been involved in the most campaigns.
Recalls are free repairs, initiated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or Suzuki itself, for a widespread safety problem. They might be a pain, but a recalled problem is better than an ignored one.
Latest Grand Vitara Recall News
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Suzuki’s leather seat upholstery is shrinking so badly that it’s putting the squeeze on a very important airbag sensor.
The extra pressure is causing Occupant Classification System (OCS) failures in the 2010-2013 Kizashi and 2006-2013 Grand Vitara. When the OCS can’t properly detect passengers, airbags end up doing more harm than good. [The automaker blames the shrinkage problem on high heat and humidity.] Strange, I would have guessed it was the cold.(https://www.carcomplaints.com/news/2019/suzuki-recalls-kizashi-grand-vitara-shrinking-leather.shtml).…
keep readingThe 2006 Grand Vitara is being recalled because it can lose power steering due to weakened plastic parts in the pump belt adjuster pulley.
keep readingThe tension adjuster pulley for the drive belt that operates the power steering pump and air conditioner compressor has an outer portion that is made of plastic. The automaker found repeated heat stress events can cause the plastic material to deteriorate and pieces of the pulley can break off.
…Suzuki is recalling the 2009-2013 Grand Vitara because people keep breaking their gear shifters.
The gear shift rear shaft, which connects the shift lever and the manual transmission, can break due repeated right-to-left and left-to-right movement of the shift lever.
Wait, so the gear shifter is breaking because ... people are shifting gears? Yeah, I'm glad this is a free repair.…
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