1996 Chevrolet S Pickup

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the engine and engine cooling › cooling system › fan. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip › Control Unit/Module	1		0	0	0
Engine and Engine Cooling › Cooling System › Fan	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip › Control Unit/Module

Filed Aug 30, 200520,000 milesCA

I READ WITH GREAT INTEREST TODAY THAT GM IS RECALLING SEVERAL PICKUPS AND SUVS FOR THE INADVERTENT APPLICATION OF ABS IN LOW SPEED STOPS. I WAS SURPRISED, HOWEVER, THAT MY VEHICLE WAS NOT NAMED. I DRIVE A 1996 CHEVY S-10 PICKUP, AND, ON THREE OCCASIONS, HAVE HAD THE ABS 'KICK IN' WHEN DOING A VERY GRADUAL STOP AT SLOW SPEEDS ON DRY PAVEMENT. TWICE I ALMOST REAR ENDED THE CAR IN FRONT OF ME. ONCE THERE WAS NO ONE AND I MERELY DRIFTED INTO THE INTERSECTION BY A FEW FEET. I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU INCREASE THE SCOPE OF YOUR INVESTIGATION TO INCLUDE MY YEAR AND MODEL OF VEHICLE, AS IT SOUNDS LIKE IT IS SUBJECT TO THE SAME PROBLEMS THAT HAVE DRIVEN YOUR CURRENT RECALL. V/R, KEN ZEMACH. *NM

Engine and Engine Cooling › Cooling System › Fan

Filed Jul 27, 200360,000 milesWA

COOLING FAN CLUTCH FAILED ON MY 1996 CHEVROLET S-10 2.2 L ENGINE VEHICLE WITH ONLY 60,000 MILES. *AK

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2002

Year	Complaints	Fires	Assessment
2002	12	0	Routine
2001	6	0	Routine
2000	10	1	Routine
1997	2	0	Routine
1996 — this page	2	0	Routine
1995	3	0	Routine
1994	4	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.