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Model years to avoid

Chevrolet Colorado

What it says about you

Opinion

A truck, sized honestly. That is rarer than it sounds and worth being quietly pleased about.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

22 model years on record, 3,255 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2017 (transmission), 2016 (power steering), 2015 (power steering), 2006 (fix), 2005 (brakes). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • power steering 2015, 2016 peak 65.4% of that year's complaints
  • transmission 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 peak 37% of that year's complaints
  • shudder 2017, 2018, 2020 peak 23.5% of that year's complaints
  • difficult 2015, 2016 peak 27.6% of that year's complaints
  • abs 2005, 2006 peak 23.3% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 1 recall 12 complaints
  2. 2025 1 recall 27 complaints
  3. 2024 3 recalls 114 complaints
  4. 2023 3 recalls 130 complaints
  5. 2022 1 recall 49 complaints
  6. 2021 1 recall 71 complaints
  7. 2020 0 recalls 81 complaints
  8. 2019 0 recalls 146 complaints
  9. 2018 1 recall 180 complaints
  10. 2017 transmission 215 complaints
  11. 2016 power steering 695 complaints
  12. 2015 power steering 485 complaints
  13. 2014 0 recalls 1 complaints
  14. 2013 0 recalls 1 complaints
  15. 2012 2 recalls 42 complaints
  16. 2011 5 recalls 42 complaints
  17. 2010 2 recalls 84 complaints
  18. 2009 3 recalls 67 complaints
  19. 2008 2 recalls 81 complaints
  20. 2007 3 recalls 140 complaints
  21. 2006 fix 236 complaints
  22. 2005 brakes 356 complaints

What does a Chevrolet Colorado say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.