Recall Register

Chevrolet C10: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 41 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet C10, model years 1967 to 2001. NHTSA has 166 complaints on file for this model line. 14 of the 32 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. 19671
  2. 19680
  3. 19701
  4. 19711
  5. 19731
  6. 19742
  7. 19761
  8. 19772
  9. 19780
  10. 19790
  11. 19800
  12. 19812
  13. 19822
  14. 19830
  15. 19840
  16. 19851
  17. 19861
  18. 19870
  19. 19885
  20. 19892
  21. 19902
  22. 19911
  23. 19923
  24. 19933
  25. 19949
  26. 19957
  27. 19966
  28. 19973
  29. 19982
  30. 19991
  31. 20001
  32. 20011
Chevrolet C10: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2001 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page100%77,485
2000 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page1119%3,758
1999 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page1358%279,132
1998 Chevrolet C102119%56,409
1997 Chevrolet C1037135%686,123
1996 Chevrolet C10616308%2,633,835
1995 Chevrolet C10740771%3,249,480
1994 Chevrolet C10920386%3,953,678
1993 Chevrolet C1039173%2,381,136
1992 Chevrolet C1039173%1,764,856
1991 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page1239%1,702,880
1990 Chevrolet C102358%1,702,948
1989 Chevrolet C102596%1,708,743
1988 Chevrolet C1057135%1,779,240
1987 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page0119%
1986 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page17135%32
1985 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page17135%32
1984 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page0358%
1983 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page0358%
1982 Chevrolet C102477%7,837
1981 Chevrolet C102477%270
1980 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page0119%
1979 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page0477%
1978 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page0119%
1977 Chevrolet C102477%330,485
1976 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page1358%330,468
1974 Chevrolet C10200%1,219,029
1973 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page100%1,218,387
1971 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page100%828
1970 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page100%880
1968 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page0119%
1967 Chevrolet C10 NHTSA page100%2,460

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

186 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 C10: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Visibility284.953
Fuel System, Gasoline134.425
Service Brakes, Hydraulic107.520
Engine and Engine Cooling91.417
Seats80.615
Tires37.67
Power Train37.67
Steering37.67
Structure26.95
Electrical System26.95

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet C10, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1995, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet C10, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2000, with 32 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 169 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet C10: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/c10/. 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
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
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 C10 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1994 with 9, 1995 with 7, 1996 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet C10 model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 40 of the 166 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet C10 name?
Visibility: 284.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 134.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 107.5 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet C10?
16 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.