Recall Register

Chevrolet Corsica: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 15 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Corsica, model years 1987 to 1997. NHTSA has 836 complaints on file for this model line. 10 of the 11 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. 19876
  2. 19884
  3. 19895
  4. 19902
  5. 19911
  6. 19921
  7. 19930
  8. 19941
  9. 19950
  10. 19960
  11. 19970
Chevrolet Corsica: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1997 Chevrolet Corsica NHTSA page011%
1996 Chevrolet Corsica0110145%
1995 Chevrolet Corsica0102134%
1994 Chevrolet Corsica1123162%39
1993 Chevrolet Corsica0100132%
1992 Chevrolet Corsica1125164%140,661
1991 Chevrolet Corsica1108142%36,364
1990 Chevrolet Corsica25572%749,348
1989 Chevrolet Corsica56484%786,175
1988 Chevrolet Corsica44661%1,466,113
1987 Chevrolet Corsica623%752,051

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

1,163 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 Corsica: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic168.5196
Electrical System135.9158
Engine and Engine Cooling114.4133
Exterior Lighting85.199
Air Bags67.178
Seat Belts65.376
Steering60.270
Structure54.263
Power Train33.539
Visibility30.135

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Corsica, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1991, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Corsica, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 219 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 178 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Corsica: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/corsica/. 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 Corsica model years have the most recall campaigns?
1987 with 6, 1989 with 5, 1988 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Corsica model year has the most complaints?
The 1992 model year, with 125 of the 836 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Corsica name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 168.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 135.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 114.4 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Corsica?
20 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.