Model years Chevrolet Colorado
2010 Chevrolet Colorado
This year drew an ordinary 84 complaints for a Chevrolet Colorado — the model's median is 81. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.1% of them mention code, against 2.4% across the other years of this generation.
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.
| Complaints filed | 84 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 81 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- code — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the other years of this generation (3×).
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
WHEN I AM DRIVING THE TRUCK IT WILL JUST STOP RUNNING NO SLOWING DOWN OR NOTHING JUST STOPS. I HAVE PUT THE CODE READER ON IT AND IT WILL COME UP WITH NOTHING.
WHILE DRIVING THE PASS CODE ANTI-THEFT LIGHT CAME ON. PARKED AT DESTINATION AND THREE HOURS LATER RETURNED TO VEHICLE. OPENED THE VEHICLE WITH A KEY RATHER THAN THE FOB, VEHICLE WOULD NOT START. THE PANEL ALSO INDICATED LOW FUEL, BUT THE TANK WAS FULL. WAITED…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 12V594000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 10V575000 CHILD SEAT
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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