Recall Register

Chevrolet Spark: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 9 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Spark, model years 2013 to 2019. NHTSA has 270 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 7 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. 20135
  2. 20146
  3. 20155
  4. 20161
  5. 20171
  6. 20180
  7. 20191
Chevrolet Spark: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2019 Chevrolet Spark NHTSA page100%12
2018 Chevrolet Spark NHTSA page038%
2017 Chevrolet Spark NHTSA page11334%55,068
2016 Chevrolet Spark NHTSA page11129%55,068
2015 Chevrolet Spark52257%592,119
2014 Chevrolet Spark6100259%594,038
2013 Chevrolet Spark5121314%546,395

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

418 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 Spark: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine181.876
Power Train145.961
Electrical System129.254
Vehicle Speed Control71.830
Unknown or Other69.429
Air Bags6728
Fuel/Propulsion System5523
Service Brakes52.622
Steering28.712
Exterior Lighting26.311

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Spark, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2014, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Spark, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2014, with 63 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 177 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Spark: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/spark/. 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, LLC

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 Spark model years have the most recall campaigns?
2014 with 6, 2015 with 5, 2013 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Spark model year has the most complaints?
The 2013 model year, with 121 of the 270 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Spark name?
Engine: 181.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 145.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 129.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Spark?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.