Recall Register

Chevrolet Chevelle: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 15 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Chevelle, model years 1966 to 1977. NHTSA has 2 complaints on file for this model line. 2 of the 10 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. 19661
  2. 19671
  3. 19684
  4. 19701
  5. 19711
  6. 19733
  7. 19741
  8. 19751
  9. 19761
  10. 19771
Chevrolet Chevelle: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1977 Chevrolet Chevelle NHTSA page100%55,564
1976 Chevrolet Chevelle NHTSA page100%16
1975 Chevrolet Chevelle NHTSA page100%220,982
1974 Chevrolet Chevelle NHTSA page100%782,111
1973 Chevrolet Chevelle300%159,205
1971 Chevrolet Chevelle NHTSA page100%12,600
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle NHTSA page100%16,712
1968 Chevrolet Chevelle400%375,940
1967 Chevrolet Chevelle NHTSA page100%138,878
1966 Chevrolet Chevelle NHTSA page121000%811,180

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

3 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 Chevelle: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic333.31
Fuel System, Gasoline333.31
Equipment333.31

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Chevelle, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Chevelle, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 178 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Chevelle: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/chevelle/. 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 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 Chevelle model years have the most recall campaigns?
1968 with 4, 1973 with 3, 1977 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Chevelle model year has the most complaints?
The 1966 model year, with 2 of the 2 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Chevelle name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 1 component mention. Fuel System, Gasoline: 1 component mention. Equipment: 1 component mention.