2010 Chevrolet Aveo
This year drew an ordinary 66 complaints for a Chevrolet Aveo — the model's median is 169. What they were about is the unusual part: 25.8% of them mention down, against 9% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 66 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 169 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 29 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- down — 25.8% of this year's complaints, against 9% across the model's other years (2.9×).
- test — 9.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the model's other years (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: test, performed, marxen, historic.
- 000 vin — 9.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the model's other years (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: 000 vin, vin available.
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 VEHICLE EXPERIENCED AN INTERMITTENT STARTING FAILURE WITHOUT WARNING. THE CONTACT WAS INFORMED OF AN UNKNOWN RECALL ON THE VEHICLE WHILE THE EMISSIONS TEST WAS BEING PERFORMED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO MARXEN CHEVROLET CADILLAC (1118 W HISTORIC ROUTE 66, F…
WHILE DRIVING VARIOUS SPEEDS SHE FELL ASLEEP BEHIND THE WHEEL AND SWERVED OFF THE ROAD. AFTER REOPENING HER EYES AND TRYING TO GAIN CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE SHE CRASHED INTO A TREE ON THE ADJACENT SIDE OF THE ROAD. UPON IMPACT THE AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY AND THE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V460000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
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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