Recall Register

Chevrolet Lumina APV: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Lumina APV, model years 1987 to 1999. NHTSA has 478 complaints on file for this model line. 7 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. 19870
  2. 19903
  3. 19911
  4. 19922
  5. 19933
  6. 19944
  7. 19953
  8. 19961
  9. 19970
  10. 19980
  11. 19990
Chevrolet Lumina APV: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1999 Chevrolet Lumina APV NHTSA page037%
1998 Chevrolet Lumina APV NHTSA page025%
1997 Chevrolet Lumina APV NHTSA page012%
1996 Chevrolet Lumina APV13581%1,159,156
1995 Chevrolet Lumina APV3104239%598,477
1994 Chevrolet Lumina APV465150%614,576
1993 Chevrolet Lumina APV345104%748,216
1992 Chevrolet Lumina APV276175%742,922
1991 Chevrolet Lumina APV147108%676,535
1990 Chevrolet Lumina APV399228%677,278
1987 Chevrolet Lumina APV NHTSA page012%

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

598 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 Lumina APV: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Structure135.581
Service Brakes, Hydraulic123.774
Visibility122.173
Seat Belts108.765
Seats8752
Engine and Engine Cooling73.644
Electrical System56.934
Latches/Locks/Linkages50.230
Steering41.825
Power Train35.121

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Lumina APV, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1994, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Lumina APV, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 71 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 178 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Lumina APV: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/lumina-apv/. 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 Lumina APV model years have the most recall campaigns?
1994 with 4, 1995 with 3, 1993 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Lumina APV model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 104 of the 478 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Lumina APV name?
Structure: 135.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 123.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Visibility: 122.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Lumina APV?
13 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.