I’ve an ‘RA’ serial no. so also affected. I just cleaned it this week and it shows no visible issues so no point taking it to a shop. It’s not like they’re going to scan it with any fancy sensors. Some spanner monkey is just going to fettle it and say aye that’s fine mate.
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But if it fails subsequently, you can take your LBS to the cleaners 
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Looking to fill my retirement with something useful, I have just had an interview with Recycle-a-bike in Uxbridge, when I say interview, it was more of a hands on - strip this old bike for scrap. Bike suitably stripped, I start as a volunteer next Tuesday.
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Tiny cut in tyre sidewall not sealing. Topped up sealant and trying to get the tyre to hold pressure.
Think I need a new tyre but have 80km planned for the morning. Any suggestions?
Can’t find any superglue. Bit of patch repair glue and a sliver of one of the plugs on the outside to see if that’s enough to get the sealant to work.
Seems to be holding 70psi now but gonna have to check it in the morning.
Bodge job and don’t really trust it.
Edit. Didn’t work. Now have unseated part of the tyre and glueing in a patch
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Inner tube?
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Looks like the chainset on my Propel is affected by the recall, forgot to actually look at though for signs of damage 
I doubt my 7W\KG all out will cause much damage 
but I’m guessing dealers won’t be arsed about checking all of these unless Shimano are either paying some money or being underhanded with them! Although it does say pre-2019 and I’m guessing a lot might be in the bin or simply won’t find out about it?
Anyway, I’ll get mine checked at some point when they give more details.
Edit: turns out a lad I knew had the exact problem on an Ultegra chainset a few months ago! I knew I’d seen someone else with it. Not sure if he’s binned it or not though.
Genuinely can’t remember if I kept mine. Be gutted if I could swap it out for a new one. Have a feeling as it was totally fubar that I binned it. Will have to have a rummage in the shed
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I think I saw Mapdec Cycles on Youtube say Shimano are paying dealers £34 per inspection irrespective of if they are showing signs of damage or not.
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I wondered if they might, probably cheaper to get them checked than some massive lawsuit!
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Any ideas why this mightve happened and if I should try and fix it… Likely to make it worse.
Bottom of stem underneath a metre of spacers…
Arrgggh
Undid all stem. Tapped that back in. Start to screw back in and it’s pushing the split spacer out worse than before 
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New bike
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Fark sake
No other headset collars that’ll fit? 
It’s canyon…so not hopeful.
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Well known issue on Canyons - its an uttely shit design
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They do like their ‘class action’ suits in the US.
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My Endurace has plastic (or whatever) spacers like that; you need to be very careful with Torque. As you’ve discovered. One of mine very slightly started to split but I noticed immediately, and loosening off saved it. Coincidentally also the bottom one; but man that is a lot of stack you have there!