Recall Register

Chevrolet S10: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 33 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet S10, model years 1981 to 2004. NHTSA has 5,600 complaints on file for this model line. 18 of the 24 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. 19810
  2. 19822
  3. 19831
  4. 19841
  5. 19850
  6. 19861
  7. 19872
  8. 19881
  9. 19892
  10. 19902
  11. 19916
  12. 19923
  13. 19933
  14. 19945
  15. 19955
  16. 19967
  17. 19976
  18. 19986
  19. 19990
  20. 20004
  21. 20011
  22. 20020
  23. 20031
  24. 20041
Chevrolet S10: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2004 Chevrolet S10 NHTSA page1156%183,922
2003 Chevrolet S10112754%183,922
2002 Chevrolet S10018680%
2001 Chevrolet S101279120%156,305
2000 Chevrolet S104432185%394,120
1999 Chevrolet S10021592%
1998 Chevrolet S106586251%69,120
1997 Chevrolet S106456195%2,489,337
1996 Chevrolet S107660283%5,196,396
1995 Chevrolet S105907389%3,487,153
1994 Chevrolet S105962412%2,003,868
1993 Chevrolet S10323299%1,270,756
1992 Chevrolet S10318077%1,485,399
1991 Chevrolet S10617374%1,588,702
1990 Chevrolet S1022812%359,650
1989 Chevrolet S1024821%359,650
1988 Chevrolet S1013716%144,598
1987 Chevrolet S1022712%144,658
1986 Chevrolet S10 NHTSA page1229%10,064
1985 Chevrolet S10 NHTSA page0104%
1984 Chevrolet S10 NHTSA page183%76,586
1983 Chevrolet S10 NHTSA page173%35,919
1982 Chevrolet S10221%1,845,919
1981 Chevrolet S10 NHTSA page010%

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

7,028 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 S10: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic279.21,962
Visibility135.3951
Engine and Engine Cooling74520
Power Train63.2444
Structure62.3438
Air Bags51.1359
Electrical System44.3311
Fuel System, Gasoline37.7265
Seats34.7244
Vehicle Speed Control30.9217

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet S10, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2000, with 7 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet S10, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 749 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 169 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet S10: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/s10/. 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 S10 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1996 with 7, 1998 with 6, 1997 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet S10 model year has the most complaints?
The 1994 model year, with 962 of the 5,600 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet S10 name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 279.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Visibility: 135.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 74 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet S10?
27 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.