Model years Chevrolet Colorado
2005 Chevrolet Colorado
Complaints about this year name brakes far more often than the other years of this generation — 18% of them, about 5× the usual rate of 3.6%.
Generation 1 of the Chevrolet Colorado, which began in 2004 and ran to 2014. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 356 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 81 |
| Involving a crash | 27 |
| Involving a fire | 11 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- abs — 23.3% of this year's complaints, against 8.6% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: abs, fault, comes, abs fault.
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.
Also unusual this year
- abs — 15% of complaints, 5× usual
- working — 10% of complaints, 6× usual
- stop — 13% of complaints, 3× usual
What owners wrote
THE CONTACT STARTED THE VEHICLE AND THE ABS AND BRAKE WARNING INDICATORS WERE ILLUMINATED. THE CONTACT PROCEEDED TO DRIVE APPROXIMATELY 15 MPH WHEN THE BRAKE PEDAL WAS APPLIED WITH A DELAYED RESPONSE. THE BRAKE PEDAL ALSO EXTENDED TO THE FLOORBOARD. AFTER ENGA…
MY CRUISE CONTROL STOPPED WORKING AND THEN MY BREAK LIGHTS. PUT IN NEW BREAK BULBS AND THEY STILL DO NOT WORK! I WAS DRI ING WHEN CRUISE CONTROL WENT OUT AND MY HUSBAND NOTICED MY BREAKS WHILE I WAS DRIVING.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 10V575000 CHILD SEAT
- 06V139000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 09V310000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Colorado 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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