2012 Chevrolet Cobalt

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the unknown or other. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Unknown or Other1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Unknown or Other
Filed Sep 28, 2017FL

MY CAR IS THE SAME MAKE AND MODEL AND YEAR THAT THE TAKATA AIR BAGS RECALL BUT YET I NEVER GOT A RECALL IT SAYS WHEN I LOOK IT UP NO RECALLS IT SCARES ME CAUSE HOW DO I KNOW MY CAR ISN'T DEFECTED LIKE THE OTHERS. SO WHAT HAPPENS IF I GET IN A CRASH AND MY AIRBAG KILLS ME OR I GET HURT.

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2006
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20171000Routine
20161000Routine
2012 — this page1000Routine
20112000Routine
2010574674Fatalities reported
2009710675Fatalities reported
200884551413Fatalities reported
20071,5646167Fatalities reported
20062,3306148Fatalities reported
20051,64961211Fatalities reported
20022000Routine
20001000Routine
19961000Routine

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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.