Recall Register

Chevrolet K30: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 26 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet K30, model years 1971 to 2000. NHTSA has 9 complaints on file for this model line. 10 of the 21 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. 19711
  2. 19761
  3. 19771
  4. 19781
  5. 19792
  6. 19801
  7. 19810
  8. 19831
  9. 19841
  10. 19853
  11. 19884
  12. 19892
  13. 19903
  14. 19911
  15. 19922
  16. 19933
  17. 19944
  18. 19953
  19. 19963
  20. 19970
  21. 20000
Chevrolet K30: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2000 Chevrolet K30 NHTSA page01233%
1997 Chevrolet K30 NHTSA page01233%
1996 Chevrolet K30300%401,695
1995 Chevrolet K3032467%398,630
1994 Chevrolet K3041233%777,338
1993 Chevrolet K30300%2,378,844
1992 Chevrolet K30200%1,762,261
1991 Chevrolet K30 NHTSA page100%1,702,880
1990 Chevrolet K3031233%1,704,910
1989 Chevrolet K3021233%1,708,743
1988 Chevrolet K30400%1,713,606
1985 Chevrolet K30300%1,186
1984 Chevrolet K30 NHTSA page11233%305
1983 Chevrolet K30 NHTSA page100%101
1981 Chevrolet K30 NHTSA page01233%
1980 Chevrolet K30 NHTSA page100%320,677
1979 Chevrolet K30200%336,005
1978 Chevrolet K30 NHTSA page100%149
1977 Chevrolet K30 NHTSA page100%330,468
1976 Chevrolet K30 NHTSA page100%330,468
1971 Chevrolet K30 NHTSA page100%136,000

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

9 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 K30: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Tires333.33
Service Brakes, Hydraulic222.22
Unknown or Other111.11
Suspension111.11
Structure111.11
Visibility111.11

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet K30, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1993, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet K30, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 3 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 178 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet K30: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/k30/. 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 K30 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1994 with 4, 1988 with 4, 1996 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet K30 model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 2 of the 9 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet K30 name?
Tires: 3 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 2 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet K30?
11 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.