1990 Chevrolet C Series

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the power train › automatic transmission › cooling unit and lines. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Power Train › Automatic Transmission › Cooling Unit and Lines1
010

What owners reported

Newest filings
Power Train › Automatic Transmission › Cooling Unit and LinesFire
Filed Sep 9, 1999TX

WHILE DRIVING AT 11 MPH THE TRANMISSION KICKED OUT OF GEAR . CONSUMER LOOKED OUT OF REAR MIRROR AND SAW SMOKE COMING FROM THE VEHICLE, TRANSMISSION WAS ON FIRE. FIRE DEPARTMENT CAME OUT TO PUT OUT THE FIRE. *AK

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1997
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20081000Routine
20072000Routine
20023000Routine
20012200Routine
19993000Routine
199817000Routine
199722000Routine
199611010Routine
199510000Routine
19942000Routine
19937010Routine
19921000Routine
19911000Routine
1990 — this page1010Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.