Recall Register

Daewoo Lanos: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 10 recall campaigns for the Daewoo Lanos, model years 1998 to 2002. NHTSA has 435 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 5 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. 19989
  2. 19999
  3. 20006
  4. 20015
  5. 20024
Daewoo Lanos: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2002 Daewoo Lanos43034%85,896
2001 Daewoo Lanos5129148%113,780
2000 Daewoo Lanos6209240%116,591
1999 Daewoo Lanos96271%93,900
1998 Daewoo Lanos956%93,900

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

502 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.

Daewoo Lanos: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling577.7290
Air Bags167.384
Service Brakes, Hydraulic73.737
Electrical System23.912
Power Train17.99
Exterior Lighting17.99
Suspension13.97
Vehicle Speed Control126
Seats126
Steering126

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Daewoo Lanos, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1999, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Daewoo Lanos, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 328 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Daewoo: all 3 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Daewoo Lanos: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/daewoo/lanos/. 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
DAEWOO MOTOR DE PUERTO RICO

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 Daewoo Lanos model years have the most recall campaigns?
1999 with 9, 1998 with 9, 2000 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Daewoo Lanos model year has the most complaints?
The 2000 model year, with 209 of the 435 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Daewoo Lanos name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 577.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 167.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 73.7 per 1,000 component mentions.