Opel Grandland X

The risk

The electrodes of the traction batteries may be incorrectly aligned.This could result in a short circuit between the electrodes and lead to a thermal runaway of the battery, causing it to emit toxic smoke without flame. The product does not comply with the requirements laid down in the Regulation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles.

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · official text, unchanged

Measures taken

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Manufacturer Category of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users Date of entry into force: 04/12/2020

Models on CarsLore

The alert names these models; open one for its complaints, recalls in other countries and inspection results.

• Opel Grandland

Other fire alerts in 2021

76 of the 549 motor vehicle alerts published in 2021 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2021

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2021

Other recalls for the same models

The same models in recall campaigns from NHTSA, Transport Canada, the EU Safety Gate and the Dutch RDW.

All recalls for this model: Opel Grandland

More Opel alerts

239 EU Safety Gate alerts for Opel since 2006; the most were issued in 2021 (27).

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