Model years Chevrolet Corvette
2019 Chevrolet Corvette
This year drew an ordinary 147 complaints for a Chevrolet Corvette — the model's median is 64. What they were about is the unusual part: 35.4% of them mention bent, against 13.6% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Chevrolet Corvette ran from 2014 to 2019, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 147 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 64 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 18.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- bent — 35.4% of this year's complaints, against 13.6% across the other years of this generation (2.6×).
- claim — 10.2% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the other years of this generation (5.2×). Owners wrote it as: claim, set, submitted, wobble.
- bumper — 8.8% of this year's complaints, against 1.6% across the other years of this generation (5.4×). Owners wrote it as: bumper, bumper bumper, bumper warranty, installed.
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
II WENT TO HAVE NEW TIRES INSTALLED AND THE TWO REAR WHEELS WERE CRACKED. TOOK THE VEHICLE BACK TO THE DEALER AND THEY FOUND THAT THE WHEELS WERE BENT AND CRACKED. NOW THE TIRES WILL NOT MAINTAIN AIR PRESSURE. DEALERSHIP SAID THIS WAS NOT COVERED IN BUMPER TO…
THE VEHICLE SHUDDERED WHILE DRIVING. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO VADEN CHEVROLET POOLER LOCATED AT 300 OUTLET PARKWAY, POOLER, GA 31322, TO BE DIAGNOSED. THE CONTACT WAS INFORMED THAT THE SET OF WHEELS WERE BENT. THE DEALER SUBMITTED A CLAIM TO THE [VIN] HOWEVER,…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V360000 AIR BAGS 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.
Own a 2019 Chevrolet Corvette? What happened to yours?
Loading comments…