Recall Register

Chevrolet Captiva: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for the Chevrolet Captiva, model years 2011 to 2015. NHTSA has 315 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 5 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. 20111
  2. 20120
  3. 20130
  4. 20140
  5. 20150
Chevrolet Captiva: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2015 Chevrolet Captiva NHTSA page01422%
2014 Chevrolet Captiva0138219%
2013 Chevrolet Captiva097154%
2012 Chevrolet Captiva065103%
2011 Chevrolet Captiva NHTSA page112%3,150

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

465 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 Captiva: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System301.1140
Engine210.898
Unknown or Other122.657
Power Train73.134
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)53.825
Steering40.919
Air Bags30.114
Structure30.114
Fuel/Propulsion System25.812
Vehicle Speed Control21.510

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Captiva, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2011, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Captiva, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 76 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 178 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Captiva: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/captiva/. 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 LLC

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 Captiva model years have the most recall campaigns?
2011 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Captiva model year has the most complaints?
The 2014 model year, with 138 of the 315 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Captiva name?
Electrical System: 301.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 210.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 122.6 per 1,000 component mentions.