1996 Chevrolet C35

Routine

Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the steering › steering wheel/handle bar. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Steering › Steering Wheel/Handle Bar1
000
Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip1
000
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip
Filed Dec 15, 1997TN

WHEN TRAVELING WITH A LOAD ON THE REAR OF THE VEHICLE, AND UPON DEPRESSING THE BRAKE PEDAL, THE FRONT WHEELS LOCK UP, CAUSING EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE/ BRAKE FADE AWAY. CONSUMER HAS CONTACTED THE DEALER, DEALER HAS NOT REPLACED ANY PARTS. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY FURTHER DETAILS. *AK

Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline
Filed Dec 10, 1997OH

CONSUMER STATES THAT THE ENGINE BLEW. THE DEALER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED. *AK

Steering › Steering Wheel/Handle Bar
Filed Feb 6, 1997NY

THE PINCH BOLT WAS NOT INSTALLED INTO THE THREAD SIDE OF THE CLAMP, CAUSING THE STEERING COLUMN NOT TO ACTIVATE THE STEERING BOX. *AK

3 of 3 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1993
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
1996 — this page3000Routine
19958000Routine
199414000Routine
199320010Routine
19923000Routine
19912000Routine
19901100Routine

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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.