Model years Chevrolet Corvette
2012 Chevrolet Corvette
This year drew an ordinary 56 complaints for a Chevrolet Corvette — the model's median is 82. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.9% of them mention want, against 1.5% 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 | 56 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 82 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- want — 8.9% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the other years of this generation (6×).
- kept — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 0.9% across the other years of this generation (8.2×). Owners wrote it as: kept, gas cap.
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 smell coming from gas cap area replaced the gas cap twice. Continue to have strong fuel smells in garage where car is kept. Started about one month ago.
AFTER FILLING THE GAS TANK THERE IS A NOTICEABLE SMELL OF GAS THAT'S EXISTS. WHEN GARAGE KEPT THE SMELL FILLS THE ENTIRE GARAGE WITH A GAS SMELL. THE GAS CAP IS FULLY SECURED AND THERE ARE NO NOTICEABLE LEAKS OR PUDDLES ON THE GROUND.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 11V491000 STRUCTURE 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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