2006 Chevrolet Aveo
This year drew an ordinary 189 complaints for a Chevrolet Aveo — the model's median is 163. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.9% of them mention read, against 2.7% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 189 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 163 |
| Involving a crash | 13 |
| Involving a fire | 16 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 25.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- read — 7.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: read, speedometer.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
The interior dash caught on fire and burned only in the middle of the dashboard. This happened hours after it started smoking inside the car and the headlights would not turn off even though they were already off.
THE AIR BAG READINESS LIGHT ILLUMINATED ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL, WHICH MEANT THE AIR BAGS COULD DEPLOY AT ANY MOMENT. THE DEALER ADVISED HER TO BRING IN THE VEHICLE; HOWEVER, THE CONTACT HAS NOT DONE SO AT THIS TIME. SHE BELIEVES THAT THIS IS A SAFETY HAZARD.…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V261000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Aveo was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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