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2010 Chevrolet Cobalt

This year drew an ordinary 582 complaints for a Chevrolet Cobalt — the model's median is 900. What they were about is the unusual part: 6% of them mention near, against 2.4% across the model's other years.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

What the complaints were about

• near — 6% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the model's other years (2.5×).

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 FUEL LINE CORRODED NEAR REAR DRIVER SIDE BACK DOOR/WHEEL WELL. LEAKS FUEL REALLY BAD.

GAS LEAR NEAR REAR ON PASSENGER BACK SIDE NEAR GAS TANK...SEEMS TO BE SHOOTING OUT NEAR FUEL PUMP.

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 14V171000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
• 14V153000 STEERING
• 14V047000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 14E021000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 15V500000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 10V073000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Chevrolet Cobalt 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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