Recall Register

1996 Geo Metro: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1996 Geo Metro. NHTSA has 88 complaints on file for this model year.

This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.

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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 1996 Geo Metro. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 88 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

88 complaints, 116 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.

  • 1996 Geo Metro
  • All 1996 vehicles
1996 Geo Metro: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component1996 MetroAll 1996 vehiclesMetro, all yearsMentions
Air Bags25066.911829
Electrical System120.78452.214
Engine and Engine Cooling86.2140.988.210
Seats77.614.1469
Service Brakes, Hydraulic60.3120.974.57
Visibility51.75964.66
Tires51.737.223.66
Power Train43.197.955.95
Exterior Lighting43.122.926.15
Suspension34.55544.74

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 19.

Complaints that report a crash
27
Complaints that report a fire
5
Injuries in the complaints
22
Deaths in the complaints
1
Date of the newest complaint
25 Feb 2011

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 1996 Geo Metro, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1997, with 16 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19892
  2. 19902
  3. 19912
  4. 19921
  5. 19931
  6. 19940
  7. 19951
  8. 19960
  9. 19971
  10. 19980
  11. 19990
  12. 20000
  13. 20010

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1996 Geo Metro: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/geo/metro/1996/. 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
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Geo Metro have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Geo Metro, model years 1989 to 2001. None of them names the 1996 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1996 Geo Metro name most often?
Air Bags: 29 of 116 component mentions, or 250 per 1,000. For all 1996 vehicles the figure is 66.9 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1996 Geo Metro open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.