Model years to avoid

Chevrolet Monte Carlo

What it says about you

Opinion

A two-door with a NASCAR association it did not entirely earn. You liked the shape and that was enough.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

5 model years on record, 279 complaints filed. That is too few to measure against. Every finding on this site compares a year with the same model's other years, and that needs about 40 complaints in a year and 4 years to compare it with. This nameplate has 3. So nothing is claimed either way — the recalls and ratings below are the record, and they are the whole record.

The years to look at closely: 2006 (transmission), 2005 (speedometer). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

Every year

  1. 2010 0 recalls 2 complaints
  2. 2008 0 recalls 2 complaints
  3. 2007 2 recalls 42 complaints
  4. 2006 transmission 113 complaints
  5. 2005 speedometer 120 complaints

What does a Chevrolet Monte Carlo say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.