16V502000
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION
If the key is removed without the transmission in PARK, the vehicle may rollaway as occupants are exiting, increasing the risk of injury.
2012 CHEVROLET CRUZE
7 safety recall campaigns, 3 defect investigations, 1,353 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns7
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations3
Owner complaints1,353
Complaints citing a crash104
Complaints citing a fire25
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 6 of 7
14V300000
AIR BAGS
If the bar and terminals are contacting each other at the time of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal air bag, that air bag will not deploy, increasing the driver's risk of injury.
13V360000
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST
A loss of braking assistance will require extra pedal force and/or distance to bring the vehicle to a stop, increasing the risk of a crash.
13V023000
AIR BAGS
If the bar and terminals are contacting each other at the time of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal air bag, that air bag will not deploy, increasing the driver's risk of injury.
12V522000
AIR BAGS
If the bar and terminals are contacting each other at the time of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal airbag, that airbag will not deploy, increasing the driver's risk of injury.
12V288000
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
EITHER CONDITION COULD RESULT IN AN ENGINE COMPARTMENT FIRE, POSSIBLY CAUSING INJURY OR DEATH.
What owners report most
- 267ENGINE
- 196ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 142SERVICE BRAKES
- 135POWER TRAIN
- 108ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)
- 103STEERING
- 84UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 50VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2012 CHEVROLET CRUZEs 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.