Recall Register

1996 Chevrolet C1500: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1996 Chevrolet C1500. NHTSA has 229 complaints on file for this model year.

This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.

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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 1996 Chevrolet C1500. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 229 complaints for it.

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

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

Complaints by component

229 complaints, 278 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.

  • 1996 Chevrolet C1500
  • All 1996 vehicles
1996 Chevrolet C1500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component1996 C1500All 1996 vehiclesC1500, all yearsMentions
Visibility208.659302.458
Service Brakes, Hydraulic165.5120.9184.746
Engine and Engine Cooling82.7140.954.723
Power Train79.197.971.222
Seats75.514.19721
Electrical System64.78435.118
Fuel System, Gasoline43.251.529.912
Suspension365519.610
Air Bags3666.917.510
Steering32.448.923.79

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 22.

Complaints that report a crash
15
Complaints that report a fire
3
Injuries in the complaints
14
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
12 Mar 2010

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 1996 Chevrolet C1500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1997, with 75 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

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

  1. 19880
  2. 19891
  3. 19901
  4. 19910
  5. 19920
  6. 19930
  7. 19940
  8. 19950
  9. 19960

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1996 Chevrolet C1500: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/c1500/1996/. 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
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Chevrolet C1500 have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for the Chevrolet C1500, model years 1988 to 1996. It does not name the 1996 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1996 Chevrolet C1500 name most often?
Visibility: 58 of 278 component mentions, or 208.6 per 1,000. For all 1996 vehicles the figure is 59 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1996 Chevrolet C1500 open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.