ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE
Without audible indicators, the driver may leave the key in the ignition, increasing the risk of theft.
4 safety recall campaigns, 230 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
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.
Without audible indicators, the driver may leave the key in the ignition, increasing the risk of theft.
If only the first-stage of the driver's frontal air bag deploys without the additional second-stage, the driver has an increased risk of injury during a crash.
Exposed wires increase the risk of electrical shock and personal injury if the cord is handled while it is plugged in.
If the front fuel tank strap bracket separates, the increased load may lead to the failure of the other tank support. As a result, the fuel tank may come loose from the vehicle causing a fuel leak. A fuel leak, in the presence of an ignition source, may result in a fire.
Two 2014 CHEVROLET SONICs 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.