Model years Chevrolet Corvette
2010 Chevrolet Corvette
This year drew an ordinary 84 complaints for a Chevrolet Corvette — the model's median is 64. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.5% of them mention vapors, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Chevrolet Corvette, which began in 2005 and ran to 2013. 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 | 84 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 64 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- vapors — 9.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation (7.5×). Owners wrote it as: vapors, fuel vapors, vapors coming, coming gas.
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
FUEL VAPORS LEAKING FROM EVAP SYSTEM CAUSING CHECK ENGINE LIGHT TO COME ON, CODE P0455. I TOOK IT TO THE DEALERSHIP AND THE SERVICE REP INFORMED ME THAT THE LEAK WAS FROM COMING FROM GAS TANK. I WAS TOLD TO DRIVE THE CAR UNTIL CHECK ENGINE COMES BACK ON AND TH…
FUEL / GAS SMELL ...NO LEAKS DETECTED. MOST APPARENT WHEN VEHICLE IS STATIONARY OR GARAGED. VEHICHLE CAN NOT BE GARAGED DUE TO EXCESSIVE GAS SMELL AND POSSIBLE EXPLOSION CAUSED BY GAS VAPORS COMING FROM VEHICLE.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Corvette 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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