1991 Chevrolet Prizm

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the seat belts › rear/other. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Seat Belts › Rear/Other1
000
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine1
010

What owners reported

Newest filings
Engine and Engine Cooling › EngineFire
Filed Mar 13, 2003PA

NAR 03/13/2003 WHILE DRIVING ON THE TURNPIKE THE CONSUMERS VEHICLE STARTED MAKING NOISES. A MINUTE AFTER, THE ENGINE BLEW WHICH CAUSED A SMALL FIRE. DAMAGES OCCURED IN ENGINE AND BOTTOM HOOD. *CB *JB

Seat Belts › Rear/Other
Filed Feb 27, 2003MA

THE REAR SEAT BELTS WORE OUT.*JB

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
200219100Routine
200145110Routine
200024120Routine
199936120Routine
199827100Routine
19961000Routine
1991 — this page2010Routine
19901010Routine

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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.