1992 Chevrolet C1500 problems
NHTSA has received 48 complaints about the 1992 Chevrolet C1500, and 27% of them involve wipers, windshield & visibility. Next are brakes (12%) and transmission (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 48 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Wipers, windshield & visibility 27% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 4 and 4
- Injuries and deaths
- 4 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
What the data shows
Safety-related details: 4 complaints mention a crash; 4 complaints mention a fire; 4 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 85% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1992 ranks 6th most-complained-about out of 7 model years of the Chevrolet C1500 with enough data (8 complaints in that window).
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
As a result of an accident driver's seat became undone, throwing consumer into steering wheel. Seat back and head rest came forward and caused severe bruising of chest muscles and bone structure, head was thrown into steering wheel causing mouth to strike causing bad cuts and bruises to lower lip, neck and head injuries are yet undiagnosed, seat bolt stripped out of the nut on the rear drivers side causing driver to be injured from momentum of seat. *slc
Consumer states that when the vehicle was in park the emergency parking brake disengages causing damage to the vehicle.dealer notified.
Winshield wipers work intermittently, manually moving them with hand sometimes gets them working again. On-going problem.
Just bought this 1992 chevrolet p/u c1500, very good looking truck and body in great shape but found that the frame directly under the front of the door on both sides of the truck are almost completely rusted into. I'm going to have to replace frame at a cost of approx. 2000 dollars.