Model years Chevrolet Colorado
2012 Chevrolet Colorado
This year drew an ordinary 42 complaints for a Chevrolet Colorado — the model's median is 84. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.1% of them mention exhaust, against 0% 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.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 42 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 84 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- exhaust — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the other years of this generation (35.7×).
- though — 11.9% of this year's complaints, against 3.6% across the other years of this generation (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: though, changed, today.
- pickup — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 0.7% across the other years of this generation (10×).
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
SHUT OFF, DO NOT LOCK, TRY TO START AND THE CAR WITH THE PADLOCK IS LIT UP AND I CANNOT START THE PICKUP. HIT LOCK, UNLOCK, STILL WON'T GET RID OF CAR/PADLOCK LIGHT.. GET OUT HIT LOCK, UNLOCK. STILL WON'T GET RID OF CAR/PADLOCK LIGHT. I HAVE TO KEEP DOING THIS…
AN ABNORMAL WHISTLING NOISE WAS HEARD AND GREW WORSE OVER THE PAST MONTHS. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE EXHAUST MANIFOLD HAD A CRACK DOWN THE MIDDLE AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. TH…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 11V552000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 12V594000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES 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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