Vehicles Affected: Approximately 800 model-year 2009-13 Suzuki Grand Vitara SUVs equipped with manual transmissions
The Problem: The gear shift rear shaft on these vehicles may break, preventing the gears from being able to be changed and increasing the risk of a crash.
The Fix: Dealers will replace the gear shift rear shaft for free.
Patrick Masterson is Chief Copy Editor at Cars.com. He joined the automotive industry in 2016 as a lifelong car enthusiast and has achieved the rare feat of applying his journalism and media arts degrees as a writer, fact-checker, proofreader and editor his entire professional career. He lives by an in-house version of the AP stylebook and knows where semicolons can go.