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EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS
If the DRL module melts due to the heat generation, it could cause a vehicle fire.
2005 CHEVROLET AVEO
1 safety recall campaign, 2 defect investigations, 323 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations2
Owner complaints323
Complaints citing a crash25
Complaints citing a fire28
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 61ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 44EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 34ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
- 17ENGINE
- 16ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM
- 15VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 12POWER TRAIN
- 11ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2005 CHEVROLET AVEOs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.