Chevrolet S10

Which Chevrolet S10 years should you avoid?

Going by 5,673 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the Chevrolet S10 years to avoid are 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1998.

• 1994967 complaints, 3.6× a typical S10 year, most often about the brakes.
• 1995911 complaints, 3.4× a typical S10 year, most often about the brakes.
• 1996668 complaints, 2.5× a typical S10 year, most often about the brakes.
• 1998613 complaints, 2.3× a typical S10 year, most often about the visibility.

How this is worked out: each year is compared with a typical year of the same model, which takes most of the difference in sales out of it, and its share of serious failures is compared with every other car of the same model year, because older cars were complained about differently. A year needs 25 complaints to be judged at all. Complaints are unverified owner reports. Full method →