Recall Register

Chevrolet C30: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 45 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet C30, model years 1967 to 1998. NHTSA has 47 complaints on file for this model line. 17 of the 26 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. 19701
  3. 19713
  4. 19731
  5. 19741
  6. 19752
  7. 19763
  8. 19772
  9. 19781
  10. 19793
  11. 19801
  12. 19843
  13. 19854
  14. 19862
  15. 19870
  16. 19883
  17. 19892
  18. 19903
  19. 19912
  20. 19922
  21. 19933
  22. 19947
  23. 19957
  24. 19965
  25. 19971
  26. 19981
Chevrolet C30: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1998 Chevrolet C30 NHTSA page12111%1,137
1997 Chevrolet C30 NHTSA page14221%624,433
1996 Chevrolet C3055277%1,026,751
1995 Chevrolet C3078443%1,656,249
1994 Chevrolet C3077387%2,396,064
1993 Chevrolet C3034221%2,378,844
1992 Chevrolet C3022111%1,762,261
1991 Chevrolet C302155%1,706,284
1990 Chevrolet C3032111%1,704,910
1989 Chevrolet C30200%1,708,743
1988 Chevrolet C303155%1,713,294
1987 Chevrolet C30 NHTSA page02111%
1986 Chevrolet C302155%252,776
1985 Chevrolet C30400%253,942
1984 Chevrolet C303155%87,224
1980 Chevrolet C30 NHTSA page100%320,677
1979 Chevrolet C30300%336,227
1978 Chevrolet C30 NHTSA page100%29
1977 Chevrolet C3023166%331,700
1976 Chevrolet C3032111%477,330
1975 Chevrolet C3022111%109,025
1974 Chevrolet C30 NHTSA page100%2,788
1973 Chevrolet C30 NHTSA page100%7,984
1971 Chevrolet C30300%17,678
1970 Chevrolet C30 NHTSA page100%11,328
1967 Chevrolet C30 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

52 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 C30: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic50026
Fuel System, Gasoline76.94
Tires57.73
Engine and Engine Cooling38.52
Seat Belts38.52
Structure38.52
Seats38.52
Steering19.21
Parking Brake19.21
Electrical System19.21

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet C30, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1995, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet C30, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1997, with 12 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 169 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet C30: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/c30/. 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
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 C30 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1995 with 7, 1994 with 7, 1996 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet C30 model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 8 of the 47 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet C30 name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 500 per 1,000 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 76.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Tires: 57.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet C30?
13 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.