Model years Chevrolet Corvette
2018 Chevrolet Corvette
This year drew an ordinary 51 complaints for a Chevrolet Corvette — the model's median is 82. What they were about is the unusual part: 35.3% of them mention bent, against 13.6% 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 | 51 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 82 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- bent — 35.3% of this year's complaints, against 13.6% across the other years of this generation (2.6×).
- bumper — 17.6% of this year's complaints, against 4.9% across the other years of this generation (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: bumper, wheels cracked, cover under.
- felt — 9.8% of this year's complaints, against 1.6% across the other years of this generation (6.3×).
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
WHEELS CRACKED AND BENT AT LESS THAN 3500 MILES. KNOWN PROBLEM WITHIN CORVETTE COMMUNITY. GM WONT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. FRONT BUMPER PAINT PEELING OFF, WHERE THE BUMPER MEETS FENDERS. THIS IS A KNOWN FACTORY DEFECT.
Purchased the vehicle February 2018. In September 2019, I replaced the tires and within a few days, I started losing air pressure. Both rear wheels cracked. I tried to get GM to honor the 36 month bumper to bumper warranty but they refused. I purchased replace…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 25V175000 STEERING 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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