26V289000
POWER TRAIN:TRANSFER CASE (4-WHEEL DRIVE)
Front or rear wheel lockup increases the risk of a crash.
2015 CADILLAC ESCALADE
9 safety recall campaigns, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 1 defect investigation, 144 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
1 campaign covering the 2015 CADILLAC ESCALADE 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 campaigns9
Park it1stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints144
Complaints citing a crash7
Complaints citing a fire5
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 9
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.
19V645000
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST:VACUUM
As the vacuum level drops, the brake assist decreases, increasing braking effort, extending the distance required to stop the vehicle, thereby increasing the risk of a crash.
18V586000
STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM
If EPS assist is lost and then suddenly returns, the driver may have difficulty steering the vehicle, especially at low speeds, increasing the risk of a crash.
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.
What owners report most
- 25ENGINE
- 25POWER TRAIN
- 17UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 13ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 10STEERING
- 8SERVICE BRAKES
- 8SUSPENSION
- 6FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2015 CADILLAC ESCALADEs 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.