Recall Register

1987 Chevrolet Celebrity: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity. NHTSA has 44 complaints on file for this model year. 5 NHTSA investigations name this model year.

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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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 44 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

44 complaints, 59 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.

  • 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity
  • All 1987 vehicles
1987 Chevrolet Celebrity: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component1987 CelebrityAll 1987 vehiclesCelebrity, all yearsMentions
Engine and Engine Cooling220.3143.716113
Steering203.459.5168.512
Latches/Locks/Linkages135.61356.28
Structure67.847.359.94
Seat Belts67.8117.882.44
Electrical System67.8150108.64
Fuel System, Gasoline67.8115.533.74
Service Brakes, Hydraulic50.859.386.13
Suspension33.921.5302
Unknown or Other33.912.211.22

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 12.

Complaints that report a crash
1
Complaints that report a fire
0
Injuries in the complaints
1
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
19 Mar 2007

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 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 23 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
PE94048Preliminary evaluationSUB-FRAME ABSORBER FAILUREEngine and Engine Cooling21 Jun 199430 Dec 1994
PE91142Preliminary evaluationSTEERING WHEEL SEPARATIONSteering25 Oct 199122 Jan 1992
EA89026Engineering analysisLOSS OF POWER STEERINGSteering12 Jun 19899 Oct 1990
PE89105Preliminary evaluationPOWER STEERING HOSE FAILSSteering20 Mar 198912 Jun 1989
EA89010Engineering analysisBRAKE INEFFECTIVENESSService Brakes, Hydraulic17 Jan 19898 May 1990

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. 19822
  2. 19832
  3. 19843
  4. 19852
  5. 19862
  6. 19870
  7. 19882
  8. 19891
  9. 19902
  10. 19910
  11. 19920

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. 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/celebrity/1987/. 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 Celebrity have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 15 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Celebrity, model years 1982 to 1992. None of them names the 1987 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity name most often?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 13 of 59 component mentions, or 220.3 per 1,000. For all 1987 vehicles the figure is 143.7 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity open?
No. Each of the 5 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.