23V845000
SEAT BELTS:PRETENSIONER
A fire increases the risk of injury.
2018 CHEVROLET BOLT EV
5 safety recall campaigns, 3 defect investigations, 118 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns5
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations3
Owner complaints118
Complaints citing a crash2
Complaints citing a fire1
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 5 of 5
22V930000
SEAT BELTS:PRETENSIONER
A vehicle fire can increase the risk of injury.
21V560000
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:PROPULSION SYSTEM:TRACTION BATTERY
A battery fire increases the risk of injury.
20V701000
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:PROPULSION SYSTEM:TRACTION BATTERY
A battery fire increases the risk of injury.
18V576000
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC:CALIPER
A reduction of braking performance can increase the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 36STEERING
- 29ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 12POWER TRAIN
- 11FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 8UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 7SERVICE BRAKES
- 5ENGINE
- 3VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2018 CHEVROLET BOLT EVs 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.