# Service bulletin PI\-1521

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10059175
- Published by NHTSA: 2016\-02\-13
- Manufacturer's number: PI\-1521
- Manufacturer's date: 2015\-08\-01
- NHTSA component: STEERING; STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM; STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM

## NHTSA's summary

BUICK/CADILLAC/CHEVROLET/GMC: DUE TO AN IMPROPER JUMP START, THE POWER STEERING FUSE WAS EITHER BLOWN OR FAILED, CAUSING A HARD STEERING. OR LOSS OF POWER STEERING ASSIST. MODEL 2013\-16 LACROSSE, REGAL, MALIBU, 2010\-13 EQUINOX, TERRAIN, 2014\-15 ELR, 2014\-16 IMPALA, 2012\-15 VERANO, 2011\-15 CRUZE, VOLT. \*PE

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Steering, Power steering

## Vehicles listed

- 2013 to 2015 BUICK LACROSSE
- 2013 to 2016 BUICK REGAL
- 2012 to 2015 BUICK VERANO
- 2011 to 2015 CHEVROLET CRUZE
- 2010 to 2016 CHEVROLET EQUINOX
- 2014 to 2016 CHEVROLET IMPALA
- 2013 to 2016 CHEVROLET MALIBU
- 2011 to 2015 CHEVROLET VOLT
- 2010 to 2016 GMC TERRAIN

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [16V108000](/recalls/nhtsa/16V108000.md), 2016-02-24: STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM
- [14V450000](/recalls/nhtsa/14V450000.md), 2014-07-23: STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [PIT5076C](/bulletins/10247717.md), 2023-12-26, Service bulletin: UNKNOWN OR OTHER; STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. Learning Issues When Repairing Service Stability/Traction Message.
- [120232002A](/bulletins/10245766.md), 2023-12-04, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN; BACK OVER PREVENTION; STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:POWER STEERING FLUID; STEERING; STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:HOSE, PIPING, AND CONNECTIONS; STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:PUMP; SERVICE BRAKES. Power Steering Noise or Fluid Leak from Power Steering Pump, Gear or High Pressure Pressure Hose During Extreme Low Temperature Operation \(Replace Power Steering Fluid\)
- [17246](/bulletins/10158905.md), 2019-04-22, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT; STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM; POWER TRAIN; STEERING. 17246 \- Service Update. Vehicles that have been serviced for an electric power steering \(EPS\) motor condition, may have had the motor installed/reinstalled with the incorrect fastener torque, resulting in insufficient clamp load. Dealers are to tighten the fasteners to the revised specification, to achieve the specified torque.
- [13\-02\-32\-001B](/bulletins/10138679.md), 2018-05-29, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY; STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:POWER STEERING FLUID. This technical bulletin provides a procedure to repair any power steering leak that may be caused from extremely low temperatures and use the recommended fluid.
- [PI1294](/bulletins/10138676.md), 2018-05-29, Service bulletin: STEERING; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. This preliminary bulletin provides a procedure to check the EPS power and ground and reprogram the p/s module to correct the customers concern of the Intermittent Service Power Steering message on.
- [13\-02\-32\-001C](/bulletins/10138670.md), 2018-05-29, Service bulletin: STEERING; STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:POWER STEERING FLUID. This technical bulletin provides a procedure to repair any power steering leak that may be caused from extremely low temperatures and use the recommended fluid.
- [PI0814D](/bulletins/10135204.md), 2018-05-07, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:HOSE, PIPING, AND CONNECTIONS; STEERING. This preliminary bulletin provides a procedure to replace the power steering hose, generator and evaporative hose to correct the customers concern of steering shudder at low speeds.
- [PI1004](/bulletins/10134743.md), 2018-04-23, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING; ENGINE; STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. This preliminary informational bulletin provides information for Malfunction Indicator Lamp \(MIL\) On, Service StabiliTrak, Power Steering or Vehicle Soon Message Displayed on DIC.
- [PI0800B](/bulletins/10134718.md), 2018-04-23, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. This preliminary informational bulletin provides a revision for PI0800A to update the Warranty Information.
- [PI0814B](/bulletins/10134654.md), 2018-04-23, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:HOSE, PIPING, AND CONNECTIONS; STEERING: STEERING WHEEL/HANDLE BAR. This preliminary information bulletin provides a procedure to install a revised generator, power steering gear inlet hose and evap. hose to correct steering wheel shudder during low speed maneuvers.

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