Recall Register

Chevrolet K15: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet K15, model years 1982 to 1996. NHTSA has 129 complaints on file for this model line. 2 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. 19820
  2. 19861
  3. 19880
  4. 19890
  5. 19901
  6. 19910
  7. 19920
  8. 19930
  9. 19940
  10. 19950
  11. 19960
Chevrolet K15: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1996 Chevrolet K15 NHTSA page0760%
1995 Chevrolet K15038324%
1994 Chevrolet K15029247%
1993 Chevrolet K15 NHTSA page015128%
1992 Chevrolet K15 NHTSA page01194%
1991 Chevrolet K15 NHTSA page0977%
1990 Chevrolet K15 NHTSA page1651%1,962
1989 Chevrolet K15 NHTSA page0217%
1988 Chevrolet K15 NHTSA page01085%
1986 Chevrolet K15 NHTSA page119%106,111
1982 Chevrolet K15 NHTSA page019%

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

155 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 K15: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic212.933
Seats180.628
Power Train141.922
Air Bags77.412
Visibility7111
Electrical System51.68
Steering51.68
Suspension38.76
Seat Belts38.76
Structure25.84

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet K15, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1990, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Chevrolet K15, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 61 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 177 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet K15: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/k15/. 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
15 May 2019
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 K15 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1990 with 1, 1986 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet K15 model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 38 of the 129 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet K15 name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 212.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Seats: 180.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 141.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet K15?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.