Model years Chevrolet Colorado
2009 Chevrolet Colorado
This year drew an ordinary 67 complaints for a Chevrolet Colorado — the model's median is 84. What they were about is the unusual part: 22.4% of them mention vehicle start, against 5.5% 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 | 67 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 84 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- vehicle start — 22.4% of this year's complaints, against 5.5% across the other years of this generation (4.1×). Owners wrote it as: vehicle start, start after, minutes vehicle, come back.
- ten — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 0.3% across the other years of this generation (26.6×). Owners wrote it as: ten, ten minutes.
- fuel — 16.4% of this year's complaints, against 4.8% across the other years of this generation (3.4×).
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
SECURITY PASSCODE ISSUE 2009 CHEVY COLORADO. AT TIMES IT WILL NOT START AND THEN IT WILL TAKE 10 MINUTES FOR IT TO COME BACK ON. ALL THE LIGHTS WORK IN THE CAR AND LOCK SYMBOL FLASHES. THE BATTERY IS NOT DEAD AND I CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO RESTART IT BESIDES WAIT…
THE VEHICLE DID NOT START AFTER TURNING THE KEY IN THE IGNITION. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE MUST REMAIN PARKED FOR TEN MINUTES IN ORDER TO BECOME OPERABLE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE CONTACT INITIALLY BELIEVED THE FAILURE WAS DUE T…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 09V154000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 10V575000 CHILD SEAT
- 09V310000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING 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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