Recall Register

Chevrolet P30: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 25 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet P30, model years 1967 to 1999. NHTSA has 39 complaints on file for this model line. 10 of the 25 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. 19701
  3. 19712
  4. 19732
  5. 19742
  6. 19753
  7. 19762
  8. 19774
  9. 19784
  10. 19801
  11. 19822
  12. 19831
  13. 19843
  14. 19855
  15. 19861
  16. 19871
  17. 19881
  18. 19891
  19. 19901
  20. 19910
  21. 19920
  22. 19930
  23. 19940
  24. 19980
  25. 19990
Chevrolet P30: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1999 Chevrolet P30 NHTSA page02128%
1998 Chevrolet P30 NHTSA page09577%
1994 Chevrolet P30 NHTSA page09577%
1993 Chevrolet P30 NHTSA page03192%
1992 Chevrolet P30 NHTSA page04256%
1991 Chevrolet P30 NHTSA page0164%
1990 Chevrolet P30 NHTSA page12128%6,098
1989 Chevrolet P30 NHTSA page1164%6,098
1988 Chevrolet P30 NHTSA page100%6,098
1987 Chevrolet P30 NHTSA page13192%6,098
1986 Chevrolet P30 NHTSA page13192%21,485
1985 Chevrolet P3052128%23,394
1984 Chevrolet P30300%11,734
1983 Chevrolet P30 NHTSA page100%383
1982 Chevrolet P30200%598
1980 Chevrolet P30 NHTSA page100%2,343
1978 Chevrolet P30400%27,232
1977 Chevrolet P30400%17,927
1976 Chevrolet P30200%120,547
1975 Chevrolet P30300%109,824
1974 Chevrolet P30200%45,511
1973 Chevrolet P30200%8,209
1971 Chevrolet P30200%16,850
1970 Chevrolet P30 NHTSA page100%413
1967 Chevrolet P30 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

52 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 P30: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Parking Brake192.310
Service Brakes, Hydraulic153.88
Electrical System96.25
Engine and Engine Cooling76.94
Fuel System, Gasoline57.73
Service Brakes57.73
Power Train57.73
Suspension38.52
Equipment38.52
Steering38.52

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet P30, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1990, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Chevrolet P30, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1998, with 6 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 178 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet P30: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/p30/. 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 P30 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1985 with 5, 1978 with 4, 1977 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet P30 model year has the most complaints?
The 1994 model year, with 9 of the 39 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet P30 name?
Parking Brake: 192.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 153.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 96.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet P30?
8 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.