Recall Register

Chevrolet Caprice: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 50 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Caprice, model years 1965 to 2014. NHTSA has 707 complaints on file for this model line. 25 of the 35 model years have a page on this register.

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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. 19653
  2. 19662
  3. 19672
  4. 19682
  5. 19694
  6. 19713
  7. 19722
  8. 19731
  9. 19742
  10. 19761
  11. 19773
  12. 19782
  13. 19793
  14. 19802
  15. 19811
  16. 19821
  17. 19830
  18. 19841
  19. 19853
  20. 19861
  21. 19872
  22. 19881
  23. 19890
  24. 19901
  25. 19915
  26. 19926
  27. 19931
  28. 19946
  29. 19957
  30. 19964
  31. 19970
  32. 20113
  33. 20123
  34. 20134
  35. 20143
Chevrolet Caprice: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2014 Chevrolet Caprice31154%128,824
2013 Chevrolet Caprice4630%106,477
2012 Chevrolet Caprice300%101,683
2011 Chevrolet Caprice315%101,683
1997 Chevrolet Caprice NHTSA page0315%
1996 Chevrolet Caprice464317%287,145
1995 Chevrolet Caprice788436%457,892
1994 Chevrolet Caprice6146723%380,756
1993 Chevrolet Caprice161302%154,214
1992 Chevrolet Caprice689441%491,991
1991 Chevrolet Caprice5131649%653,090
1990 Chevrolet Caprice NHTSA page1630%21,415
1989 Chevrolet Caprice NHTSA page01889%
1988 Chevrolet Caprice NHTSA page11259%1,755,897
1987 Chevrolet Caprice21784%1,767,833
1986 Chevrolet Caprice130149%1,755,897
1985 Chevrolet Caprice3420%1,811,781
1984 Chevrolet Caprice NHTSA page1735%1,755,897
1983 Chevrolet Caprice NHTSA page0840%
1982 Chevrolet Caprice NHTSA page100%79,686
1981 Chevrolet Caprice NHTSA page100%4,615
1980 Chevrolet Caprice200%109,877
1979 Chevrolet Caprice3315%1,817,977
1978 Chevrolet Caprice200%480,749
1977 Chevrolet Caprice3210%598,441
1976 Chevrolet Caprice NHTSA page100%39,278
1974 Chevrolet Caprice200%791,326
1973 Chevrolet Caprice NHTSA page100%1,218,387
1972 Chevrolet Caprice200%3,708,763
1971 Chevrolet Caprice300%3,714,736
1969 Chevrolet Caprice400%9,278,411
1968 Chevrolet Caprice200%9,252,998
1967 Chevrolet Caprice200%9,252,998
1966 Chevrolet Caprice200%9,252,998
1965 Chevrolet Caprice300%10,395,998

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

905 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 Caprice: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic162.4147
Electrical System130.4118
Vehicle Speed Control77.370
Suspension69.663
Engine and Engine Cooling67.461
Steering60.855
Seat Belts58.653
Power Train48.644
Fuel System, Gasoline46.442
Air Bags45.341

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Caprice, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1996, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Caprice, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 145 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 177 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Caprice: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/caprice/. 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
15 May 2019
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 Caprice model years have the most recall campaigns?
1995 with 7, 1994 with 6, 1992 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Caprice model year has the most complaints?
The 1994 model year, with 146 of the 707 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Caprice name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 162.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 130.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 77.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Caprice?
17 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.