Recall Register

Chevrolet Volt: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 8 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Volt, model years 2011 to 2019. NHTSA has 384 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 9 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. 20111
  2. 20122
  3. 20133
  4. 20140
  5. 20151
  6. 20161
  7. 20170
  8. 20182
  9. 20192
Chevrolet Volt: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2019 Chevrolet Volt212%226,428
2018 Chevrolet Volt2819%226,428
2017 Chevrolet Volt054127%
2016 Chevrolet Volt NHTSA page11228%16
2015 Chevrolet Volt NHTSA page11842%10
2014 Chevrolet Volt04196%
2013 Chevrolet Volt3105246%55,609
2012 Chevrolet Volt2121284%50,240
2011 Chevrolet Volt NHTSA page12456%50,236

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

596 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 Volt: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System223.2133
Engine107.464
Air Bags102.361
Fuel/Propulsion System102.361
Power Train88.953
Service Brakes78.947
Unknown or Other60.436
Steering40.324
Structure28.517
Seats28.517

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Volt, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2018, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Volt, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 123 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 177 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Volt: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/volt/. 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 Volt model years have the most recall campaigns?
2013 with 3, 2019 with 2, 2018 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Volt model year has the most complaints?
The 2012 model year, with 121 of the 384 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Volt name?
Electrical System: 223.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 107.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 102.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Volt?
4 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.