Recall Register

Chevrolet Chevette: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Chevette, model years 1976 to 1986. NHTSA has 14 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 9 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. 19764
  2. 19771
  3. 19803
  4. 19813
  5. 19822
  6. 19831
  7. 19842
  8. 19851
  9. 19863
Chevrolet Chevette: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1986 Chevrolet Chevette33193%570,259
1985 Chevrolet Chevette NHTSA page1164%370,831
1984 Chevrolet Chevette200%447,417
1983 Chevrolet Chevette NHTSA page1164%370,831
1982 Chevrolet Chevette23193%598,387
1981 Chevrolet Chevette35321%653,625
1980 Chevrolet Chevette3164%653,625
1977 Chevrolet Chevette NHTSA page100%320,000
1976 Chevrolet Chevette400%565,152

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

19 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 Chevette: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling157.93
Seat Belts157.93
Service Brakes, Hydraulic105.32
Power Train105.32
Fuel System, Gasoline105.32
Electrical System105.32
Interior Lighting105.32
Vehicle Speed Control105.32
Seats52.61

Counts by year

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

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 169 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Chevette: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/chevette/. 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
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 Chevette model years have the most recall campaigns?
1976 with 4, 1986 with 3, 1981 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Chevette model year has the most complaints?
The 1981 model year, with 5 of the 14 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Chevette name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 3 component mentions. Seat Belts: 3 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 2 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Chevette?
9 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.