General Motors has filed NHTSA campaign 25V299000 after discovering that the front-passenger head-restraint brackets on 32 model-year 2025 Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana vans were welded out of spec. An inadequate weld could let the restraint separate from the seat frame in a crash, raising the risk of neck injury. Owner letters go out by 23 June 2025, and dealers will swap the entire seat frame as needed at no cost.
From a welding-quality standpoint, the recall is a reminder that thin-wall tubular seat structures demand tight process control; even a small lack-of-fusion or missed penetration can undermine crash-energy paths. Automated MIG systems on high-volume seat lines usually log every weld pulse, yet defects still slip through when parameters drift or fixturing shifts.
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