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Chevrolet C/K Pickups: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet C/K Pickups, model years 1990 to 2002. NHTSA has 382 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 13 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19900
  2. 19910
  3. 19920
  4. 19930
  5. 19941
  6. 19951
  7. 19961
  8. 19971
  9. 19981
  10. 19991
  11. 20001
  12. 20010
  13. 20020
Chevrolet C/K Pickups: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2002 Chevrolet C/K Pickups NHTSA page01448%
2001 Chevrolet C/K Pickups NHTSA page02482%
2000 Chevrolet C/K Pickups134116%98,221
1999 Chevrolet C/K Pickups137126%500,000
1998 Chevrolet C/K Pickups178265%507,171
1997 Chevrolet C/K Pickups172245%1,755,876
1996 Chevrolet C/K Pickups NHTSA page12275%1,755,876
1995 Chevrolet C/K Pickups NHTSA page12378%1,755,876
1994 Chevrolet C/K Pickups152177%1,755,876
1993 Chevrolet C/K Pickups NHTSA page01241%
1992 Chevrolet C/K Pickups NHTSA page0724%
1991 Chevrolet C/K Pickups NHTSA page0620%
1990 Chevrolet C/K Pickups NHTSA page013%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

432 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Chevrolet C/K Pickups: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Visibility298.6129
Service Brakes, Hydraulic185.280
Steering83.336
Structure60.226
Engine and Engine Cooling50.922
Fuel System, Gasoline34.715
Power Train30.113
Electrical System25.511
Tires23.110
Service Brakes, Air23.110

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet C/K Pickups, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2003, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet C/K Pickups, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2005, with 83 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 178 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet C/K Pickups: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/c-k-pickups/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Chevrolet C/K Pickups model years have the most recall campaigns?
2000 with 1, 1999 with 1, 1998 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet C/K Pickups model year has the most complaints?
The 1998 model year, with 78 of the 382 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet C/K Pickups name?
Visibility: 298.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 185.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Steering: 83.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet C/K Pickups?
9 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.