2011 Chevrolet Volt
This year drew an ordinary 49 complaints for a Chevrolet Volt — the model's median is 219. What they were about is the unusual part: 22.4% of them mention morning, against 6.8% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 49 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 219 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 37 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- morning — 22.4% of this year's complaints, against 6.8% across the model's other years (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: morning, end, plugged, totally.
- fuel — 16.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the model's other years (6×).
- seat — 18.4% of this year's complaints, against 7% across the model's other years (2.6×).
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
INSTRUMENT CLUSTER, WHICH DISPLAYS SPEED, ODOMETER AND FUEL LEVER AMONG OTHER SAFETY INFORMATION, STARTED TO GLITCH TOWARDS THAT END OF A TRIP OF ABOUT TWO HOURS. AT FIRST THE SCREEN WOULD FLICKER BUT WOULD EVENTUALLY REBOOT AND THE INFORMATION WAS AVAILABLE S…
WHILE DRIVING ON THE MORNING OF MAY 30, 2019, THE DRIVER SIDE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER WENT BLANK. I PULLED OFF THE ROAD TO INITIATE A FULL SHUTDOWN OF THE VEHICLE. UPON STARTUP, THE DISPLAY CAME BACK ON FOR 5 SECONDS, THEN WENT TOTALLY BLANK AGAIN. THE INSTRUMENT C…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V145000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Volt 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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