1998 Chevrolet Sonoma

Routine

Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the power train › automatic transmission. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Visibility › Windshield Wiper/Washer › Motor	1		0	0	0
Visibility › Windshield Wiper/Washer	1		0	0	0
Power Train › Automatic Transmission	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Visibility › Windshield Wiper/Washer › Motor

Filed Jan 25, 200575,000 milesMI

THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS WORKED INTERMITTENTLY, SOMETIMES WHEN THE CONSUMER TURNED THEM ON A FASTER SPEED THEY WILL COME ON. THE FRONT PASSENGER AND DRIVER SEAT HANDLES WERE BROKEN, THEY DID NOT RECLINE AND METAL WAS WHITE. THE TRANSMISSION HAS BEEN REPLACED SIX TIMES, AND THE TAILGATE CABLES WERE BROKEN AND RUSTED. *JB.. VEHICLE ALMOST HIT A LARGE VAN WHEN THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS STOPPED WORKING. THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS ALMOST ALWAYS WORKED WHEN IT WAS DRY OUTSIDE. CONSUMER TOOK OUT THE CIRCUIT BOARD AND FOUND THE SOLDER JOINT TO THE RELAY CRACKED. *AK

Power Train › Automatic Transmission

Filed Dec 3, 2004AL

WHILE DRIVING 20 MPH CONSUMER HEARD A LOUD KNOCKING NOISE COMING FROM THE FRONT. SUDDENLY, CONSUMER WAS UNABLE TO SHIFT GEARS, AND THE VEHICLE STALLED. VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A GARAGE FOR INSPECTION, AND MECHANIC DETERMINED THAT TRANSMISSION NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. *AK

Visibility › Windshield Wiper/Washer

Filed Aug 8, 2003IL

THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS FAILED. *JB

3 of 3 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1994

Year	Complaints	Fires	Assessment
2003	1	0	Routine
2002	3	1	Routine
2001	2	0	Routine
2000	1	0	Routine
1999	4	0	Routine
1998 — this page	3	0	Routine
1997	1	0	Routine
1996	1	0	Routine
1995	4	0	Routine
1994	7	0	Routine
1993	1	1	Routine
1991	1	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.