1996 Chevrolet Cobalt

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the air bags › frontal. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Air Bags › Frontal	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Air Bags › Frontal

Filed Aug 28, 200970,000 milesIL

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 1996 CHEVROLET COBALT. THE CONTACT STATED THAT HE NOTICED THAT THE AIR BAG WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATED ON THE INSTRUMENT CONTROL PANEL, INDICATING THAT THE PASSENGER SIDE FRONT AIR BAG WAS INOPERATIVE. AS A CONSEQUENCE IN A SITUATION THAT WARRANTS THE AIR BAG MAY NOT DEPLOY WHICH INCREASES THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY. HE TOOK THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALER IN WHICH A TECHNICIAN ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE WAS A TECHNICIAN BULLETIN THAT SPECIFIES THAT THE WIRING HARNESS SHOULD BE MODIFIED. ADDITIONALLY HE ADDED THAT BECAUSE THERE NOT AN OFFICIAL RECALL THEREFORE HE WOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR THE REPAIR. AS OF CURRENT DATE THE VEHICLE HAS NOT BEEN REPAIRED. THE FAILURE AND CURRENT MILEAGES WERE 70,000. THE VIN NUMBER WAS NOT AVAILABLE.

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2006

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Deaths	Assessment
2017	1	0	0	0	Routine
2016	1	0	0	0	Routine
2012	1	0	0	0	Routine
2011	2	0	0	0	Routine
2010	574	6	7	4	Fatalities reported
2009	710	6	7	5	Fatalities reported
2008	845	5	14	13	Fatalities reported
2007	1,564	6	16	7	Fatalities reported
2006	2,330	6	14	8	Fatalities reported
2005	1,649	6	12	11	Fatalities reported
2002	2	0	0	0	Routine
2000	1	0	0	0	Routine
1996 — this page	1	0	0	0	Routine

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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.