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2012 Buick Verano

What the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration knows about this vehicle: every recall, every consumer complaint, every defect investigation, every NCAP crash test. Sourced directly from NHTSA data feeds.

3
Open recalls
106
NHTSA complaints
1
Defect investigations
1,484
Service bulletins

NCAP safety

Overall
Not rated
Frontal
Not rated
Side
Not rated
Rollover
Not rated

Consumer complaints

106 filed
8
Crashes
1
Fires
4
Injuries reported
0
Fatalities reported

What people complain about

  • Engine
    48
  • AIR Bags
    27
  • Electrical System
    16
  • Steering
    9
  • Vehicle Speed Control
    7
  • Power Train
    7
  • Unknown OR Other
    5
  • VISIBILITY/WIPER
    4

Recalls

3 campaigns
14V300000·AIR BAGS2014-06-06

General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain model year 2012 Buick Verano vehicles manufactured December 2, 2011 to July, 16, 2012, Chevrolet Cruze vehicles manufactured December 7, 2011 to July 25, 2012, Chevrolet Sonic vehicles manufactured December 5, 2011 to August 2, 2012, and Chevrolet Camaro vehicles manufactured December 1, 2011 to June 11, 2012. The driver side frontal air bag has a shorting bar which may intermittently contact the air bag terminals.

RiskIf the bar and terminals are contacting each other at the time of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal air bag, that air bag will not deploy, increasing the driver's risk of injury.

FixGM will notify owners, and dealers will replace the steering wheel air bag coil, free of charge. The recall began on July 25, 2014. Chevrolet owners may contact GM at 1-800-222-1020. Buick owners may contact GM at 1-800-521-7300. Note: This is an expansion of recalls 12V-522 and 13V-023.

13V023000·AIR BAGS2013-01-24

General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain model year 2012 Chevrolet Camaro, Cruze and Sonic, and model year 2012 Buick Verano vehicles. The driver side frontal air bag has a shorting bar which may intermittently contact the air bag terminals.

RiskIf the bar and terminals are contacting each other at the time of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal air bag, that air bag will not deploy, increasing the driver's risk of injury.

FixGM will notify owners, and dealers will replace the steering wheel air bag coil, free of charge. The safety recall began on February 13, 2013. Owners may contact General Motors at 1-800-521-7300.

12V522000·AIR BAGS2012-10-31

General Motors is recalling certain model year 2012 Buick Verano, Chevrolet Cruze, and Chevrolet Sonic vehicles. The driver side frontal air bag has a shorting bar which may intermittently contact the air bag terminals.

RiskIf the bar and terminals are contacting each other at the time of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal airbag, that airbag will not deploy, increasing the driver's risk of injury.

FixGeneral Motors will notify owners, and dealers will replace the steering wheel airbag coil, free of charge. The safety recall began on January 11, 2013. Owners may contact General Motors at 1-800-521-7300.

NHTSA investigations

3 actions
RQ13002·AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE2013-05-31 → 2014-07-09

Air Bag Non-deployment

Led to recall13V023000

RQ13002·AIR BAGS:FRONTAL2013-05-31 → 2014-07-09

Air Bag Non-deployment

Led to recall13V023000

RQ13002·AIR BAGS2013-05-31 → 2014-07-09

Air Bag Non-deployment

Led to recall13V023000

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