2001 Chevrolet Sonoma

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the air bags. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Structure › Body › Tailgate › Hinge and Attachments	1		0	0	0
Air Bags	1		1	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Structure › Body › Tailgate › Hinge and Attachments

Filed Jun 24, 200428,000 milesOH

THE TAILGATE CABLE SNAPPED AND BROKE. THIS OCCURRED WHILE CARRYING A LOAD WITH THE TAILGATE IN THE DOWN POSITION. THE TAILGATE FELL ONTO THE BUMPER. UPON INSPECTION OF THE TAILGATE BY THE DEALERSHIP THEY NOTICED THAT THE CABLE WAS CORRODED AND RUSTED. *AK THE PROBLEM SEEMED TO BE WATER RUNNING DOWN INSIDE THE PLASTIC COATED CABLE FROM THE TOP WHEN THE TAIL GATE WAS UP, TRAPPING THE MOISTURE, THEN RUSTING THE IRON CABLE. *SC *JB

Air BagsCrash

Filed Mar 13, 2003WI

THE AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY IN AN ACCIDENT.*NLM *JB

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1994

Year	Complaints	Fires	Assessment
2003	1	0	Routine
2002	3	1	Routine
2001 — this page	2	0	Routine
2000	1	0	Routine
1999	4	0	Routine
1998	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.