26V289000
POWER TRAIN:TRANSFER CASE (4-WHEEL DRIVE)
Front or rear wheel lockup increases the risk of a crash.
2015 CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV
6 safety recall campaigns, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 1 defect investigation, 13 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
1 campaign covering the 2015 CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV carries NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
The record
Recall campaigns6
Park it1stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints13
Complaints citing a crash3
Complaints citing a fire0
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 6 of 6
26V329000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator rupture may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.
17V437000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
A failure of the front air bags or seat belt pretensioners to deploy in the event of a crash necessitating deployment increases the risk of injury to the driver and front passenger.
16V651000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
A failure of the front air bags or seat belt pretensioners to deploy in the event of a crash necessitating deployment increases the risk of injury to the driver and front passenger.
14V624000
AIR BAGS
Inconsistent air bag deployment increases the risk of personal injury in the event of a crash necessitating air bag deployment.
14V259000
AIR BAGS
In the event of an accident, an air bag that only partially deploys increases the risk of occupant injury.
What owners report most
- 2UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 2ENGINE
- 2ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 1FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 1POWER TRAIN
- 1STRUCTURE:BODY
- 1VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 1VISIBILITY/WIPER
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2015 CADILLAC ESCALADE ESVs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.