1998 Chevrolet K20

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the engine and engine cooling › engine › gasoline › belts and associated pulleys. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline › Belts and Associated Pulleys1
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What owners reported

Newest filings
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline › Belts and Associated Pulleys
Filed Nov 12, 1997NY

THE SERPENTINE BELT BROKE WHICH MADE THE VEHICLE UNABLE TO BE STEERED, AND CAUSED A TOTAL LOSS OF BRAKING ABILITY. DEALER FIXED. *AK CONSUMER STATES THAT A PIECE OF TENSION PULLEY THAT TIGHTENS THE BELT BROKE AND CUT THE SERPENTINE BELT IN HALF. *SLC

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1993
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
1998 — this page1000Routine
19974000Routine
19962300Routine
19952300Routine
19943600Routine
19935200Routine
19920300Routine
19913200Routine
19900400Routine

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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.