Model years Chevrolet Corvette
2015 Chevrolet Corvette
This year drew an ordinary 64 complaints for a Chevrolet Corvette — the model's median is 82. What they were about is the unusual part: 25% of them mention transmission, against 6.6% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Chevrolet Corvette, which began in 2014 and ran to 2019. 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 | 64 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 82 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- transmission — 25% of this year's complaints, against 6.6% across the other years of this generation (3.8×).
- several — 20.3% of this year's complaints, against 5.9% across the other years of this generation (3.5×).
- shifts — 7.8% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the other years of this generation (39.1×).
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
THE A8 AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION IN THE 2015 CORVETTE IS PRONE TO OCCASIONAL HARD DOWNSHIFTS FROM 2ND TO 1ST GEAR WHEN DRIVING AT SLOW SPEEDS (LESS THAN 10 MPH). SOMETIMES THE DOWNSHIFTS ARE SO VIOLENT THAT THE CAR JERKS FORWARD SEVERAL FEET. THE FIRST TIME IT HA…
AUTOMATIC 8 SPEED TRANSMISSION HAD TO BE REPLACED AT 2000 MILES ON THE ODOMETER DUE TO HARD SHIFTS AND SHIFTING AUTOMATICALLY TO LOW GEAR AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS NEARLY BRINGING THE CAR TO A STOP IN INTERSTATE TRAFFIC, NOW 700 MILES AND 4 MONTHS LATER THE TRANSMISSI…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V651000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V437000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V570000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V568000 PARKING BRAKE Fixed free of charge.
- 15V031000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
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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