Chevrolet Volt — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 5,938 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Electrical system1,366 (23.0%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2011–2013.
• Fuel system996 (16.8%)
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)858 (14.4%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2013.
• Engine742 (12.5%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2011–2013.
• Air bags (restraint system)622 (10.5%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2013–2016.
• Brakes204 (3.4%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2012–2019.

Other / uncategorized: 450 classifications (7.6%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (3,718 records, model years 2011–2019) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, fuel system and powertrain (transmission & drivetrain).
• Manufacturer communications (15,435 records, model years 2011–2019) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and engine.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 1,778reports included a mileage
• 56,487average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 2011 1,764 records for 2011 1,764
2. 2012 2,096 records for 2012 2,096
3. 2013 2,264 records for 2013 2,264
4. 2014 1,747 records for 2014 1,747
5. 2015 1,461 records for 2015 1,461
6. 2016 1,502 records for 2016 1,502
7. 2017 1,865 records for 2017 1,865
8. 2018 1,074 records for 2018 1,074
9. 2019 668 records for 2019 668

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 78mention a crash
• 32mention a fire
• 74mention an injury

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 20
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 15,435
• Investigations NHTSA 21
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 19
• Owner complaints NHTSA 3,718

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0AA6 in 62 records · 2011–2014
• P0A46 in 44 records · 2011–2015
• P0442 in 35 records · 2011–2019
• P0335 in 31 records · 2011–2015
• P0C58 in 28 records · 2011–2016
• P1101 in 28 records · 2016–2019
• P0C57 in 25 records · 2011–2016
• P0AFA in 24 records · 2011–2015
• P0AF8 in 20 records · 2011–2015
• P2635 in 19 records · 2013–2017
• P0534 in 18 records · 2011–2014
• C0035 in 17 records · 2011–2017

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.