# Service bulletin 17246

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: 10158905
- Published by NHTSA: 2019\-04\-22
- Manufacturer's number: 17246
- Manufacturer's date: 2017\-06\-30
- NHTSA component: EQUIPMENT; STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM; POWER TRAIN; STEERING

## NHTSA's summary

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.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2017/MC-10158905-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2017/MC-10158905-9999.pdf)

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## Components

Equipment and accessories, Steering, Transmission and driveline, Power steering

## Vehicles listed

- 2016 CHEVROLET MALIBU

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [PI1521A](/bulletins/10126351.md), 2017-12-22, Service bulletin: STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. This preliminary informational bulletin provides repair information to correct a customer concern of loss of power steering assist, hard to steer, and/or "Service Power Steering" message on in DIC.
- [PI1521B](/bulletins/10094782.md), 2017-03-13, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. THIS PRELIMINARY INFORMATIONAL BULLETIN PROVIDES A PROCEDURE TO REPLACE THE POWER STEERING FUSE FOR A CONDITION OF LOSS OF POWER STEERING ASSIST AND/OR SERVICE POWER STEERING MESSAGE DISPLAYED.
- [16\-NA\-200](/bulletins/10088822.md), 2017-01-17, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. THIS TECHNICAL BULLETIN PROVIDES A PROCEDURE TO REPROGRAM THE POWER STEERING MODULE TO CORRECT THE CUSTOMERS CONCERN OF THE POWER STEERING REDUCED MESSAGE ON AND THE MIL ILLUMINATED.
- [SB\-16\-NA\-109](/bulletins/10078430.md), 2016-08-06, Service bulletin: STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. "THIS TECHNICAL BULLETIN PROVIDES A PROCEDURE TO INSPECT THE STEERING GEAR FOR A NORMAL CONDITION OF GREASE OR SEALANT ON EXTERIOR CASE OF GEAR DUE TO THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS."
- [PI\-1521](/bulletins/10059175.md), 2016-02-13, Service bulletin: STEERING; STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM; STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. 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

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