Recall Register

Chevrolet K10: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 32 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet K10, model years 1967 to 2000. NHTSA has 72 complaints on file for this model line. 14 of the 29 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. 19671
  2. 19692
  3. 19702
  4. 19712
  5. 19721
  6. 19732
  7. 19742
  8. 19750
  9. 19761
  10. 19772
  11. 19781
  12. 19810
  13. 19821
  14. 19851
  15. 19860
  16. 19870
  17. 19887
  18. 19893
  19. 19903
  20. 19912
  21. 19923
  22. 19932
  23. 19945
  24. 19951
  25. 19962
  26. 19970
  27. 19980
  28. 19990
  29. 20001
Chevrolet K10: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2000 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page100%3,758
1999 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page03121%
1998 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page04161%
1997 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page04161%
1996 Chevrolet K1028322%395,922
1995 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page118725%379,004
1994 Chevrolet K1058322%777,367
1993 Chevrolet K1024161%2,378,541
1992 Chevrolet K1034161%2,103,625
1991 Chevrolet K102281%2,044,244
1990 Chevrolet K103281%2,044,312
1989 Chevrolet K103140%2,050,107
1988 Chevrolet K10700%2,057,899
1987 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page0140%
1986 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page04161%
1985 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page1281%3,152
1982 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page100%6,204
1981 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page0140%
1978 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page100%16
1977 Chevrolet K102281%330,532
1976 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page100%330,468
1975 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page04161%
1974 Chevrolet K10200%1,219,029
1973 Chevrolet K10200%1,341,987
1972 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page100%1,600
1971 Chevrolet K10200%124,160
1970 Chevrolet K10200%124,880
1969 Chevrolet K10200%129,760
1967 Chevrolet K10 NHTSA page100%2,460

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

85 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 K10: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic176.515
Seats141.212
Visibility141.212
Tires82.47
Fuel System, Gasoline70.66
Power Train70.66
Seat Belts58.85
Air Bags58.85
Steering47.14
Structure35.33

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet K10, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1993, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet K10, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 15 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 169 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet K10: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/k10/. 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 K10 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1988 with 7, 1994 with 5, 1992 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet K10 model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 18 of the 72 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet K10 name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 176.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Seats: 141.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Visibility: 141.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet K10?
11 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.