Recall Register

Chevrolet Citation: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 16 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Citation, model years 1980 to 1988. NHTSA has 12 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 6 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. 19809
  2. 19812
  3. 19823
  4. 19831
  5. 19841
  6. 19880
Chevrolet Citation: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1988 Chevrolet Citation NHTSA page0150%
1984 Chevrolet Citation NHTSA page17350%121,095
1983 Chevrolet Citation NHTSA page100%352,036
1982 Chevrolet Citation300%539,811
1981 Chevrolet Citation23150%130,593
1980 Chevrolet Citation9150%716,806

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

28 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 Citation: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling2507
Steering178.65
Visibility107.13
Electrical System107.13
Fuel System, Gasoline107.13
Power Train71.42
Service Brakes, Hydraulic35.71
Suspension35.71
Tires35.71
Parking Brake35.71

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Citation, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Citation, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 4 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 169 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Citation: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/citation/. 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 Citation model years have the most recall campaigns?
1980 with 9, 1982 with 3, 1981 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Citation model year has the most complaints?
The 1984 model year, with 7 of the 12 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Citation name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 7 component mentions. Steering: 5 component mentions. Visibility: 3 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Citation?
9 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.