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🇺🇸 chevrolet spark 2020 [Brake] Defect age: 5
Brake failure after $560 brake repair. When backing up on an incline brakes became very hard and fail to stop the car. Happened multiple times with no warning light. Dealer talked with gm, and informed me it may not be fixable. The brakes should stop the car even with a power assist malfunction. Poor design. Too unsafe for my family. Traded it in. Hope NHTSA investigates the brakes on chevy Sparks. The total loss of brakes was verified on first shop trip by chevy tech. 1 day after repair, total brake failure again. This time it set in the shop for a week, awaiting gm response. Gm case number 9-6003224546 this is the second brake failure complaint for the car, but I only have the service report for the original failure and repair. Document is provided with this complaint.
🇺🇸 chevrolet spark 2020 [Brake] Defect age: 5
Randomly while parked on incline, start the car, put in reverse, and start backing down the drive way the brakes would totally fail and no amount of pressing on the brakes would stop the car. The car gave no brake failure warnings.
🇺🇸 chevrolet spark 2021 [Safety] Defect age: 1
Our car broke down on 07/08/2021 and went into the shop on 07/12/2021. It was eventually determined the engine had to be replaced. The car was in the shop until 09/02/2021. The following day during a test drive I noticed some minor, unusual response, almost unnoticeable, from the brakes, but there were no warning lights or messages. I connected a code reader and received the following codes: u0422, u0151, and c0800. I think all of them are sent by the ecu and involve communication problems with the abs and the restraint systems, but yet, no warnings. I took it back to the shop. They found a shorted or bad body control module, probably caused during the engine swap. If I hadn’t found those codes, perhaps the brakes or restraint systems may not have performed correctly in an accident. Obviously, the bcm can be defective and no warning lights are displayed, yet the car seems to perform almost normal. My wife did not detect the unusual braking response. We have parked the car. It seems to me, if the bcm goes defective, there should be a red light, stop immediately warning. I think every system in the car has to communicate with it. Could it be a problem created in the factory?.
🇺🇸 chevrolet spark 2021 [Safety] Defect age: 1
Vehicle #1 heading southbound then cross lanes and ture abruptly eastward into ongoing traffic of vehicle #2 northbound lane. Both vehicle's collided and vehicle #2 air bag's did not deploy during impact.
🇺🇸 chevrolet spark 2020 [Safety]
All of the airbags were too strong. The doctor thought my leg was broken from the leg airbag. I was even wearing ugg boots to my knees, so I would have had a worse injury without them. I got a concussion from the airbag that hit my face and my nose was broken. My left hand was severely bruised almost covering the whole hand, my legs were bruised with cuts all over. There were bruises as if pieces were flying at my legs from within the airbags. One circular bruise on my leg lasted almost a year. Also, the seatbelt was too harsh. It pulled at my shoulder and the injury has lasted until now. My passenger had cuts on her legs and severe bruises on her stomach from the seatbelt. We were in a head-on accident with the other car going about 45 at us and going faster and faster.
🇺🇸 chevrolet spark 2020 [Safety] Defect age: 1
I had an accident on 3/5/2020 in my 2019 chevy Spark and the airbags did not deploy. Fortunately I did not suffer serious injury: badly bruised forearm and elbow from hitting the steering wheel, whiplash and muscle aches on my total right side of body and back. I understand there is a recall for this problem and I have not been notified to come in for service as of today.
🇺🇸 chevrolet spark 2021 [Safety] Defect age: 2
Collision to the front of car. It bent the frame but airbags still did not deploy.
🇺🇸 chevrolet spark 2021 [Safety] Defect age: 2
Airbag code (95) the car just got out of the shop from a faulty transmission and a warped piston(#3) I had it back for two weeks and now the airbag code comes on. I drove about five minutes and then park the car down to one the code came on. I cleared it shut the car off them started it came back.
🇺🇸 chevrolet spark 2019 [Safety]
Got the car in January of 2019. Under 18,000 miles and I was driving on the highway saw smoke and took it to Chevrolet they said the brakes needed to be repaired with boosters and other parts.
🇺🇸 chevrolet spark 2019 [Safety]
The vehicle was in motion in a school zone of 35 mph on a street. It had a front end impact, which it rear-ended the car in front of it and the airbags deployed. The airbag by the feet, deployed a piece of metal or plastic and blew through the calf down to the bone. The wound was 4-5 inches in length and required 13 stitches. There was barely any damage to the car and there should not have been a hole blown through the leg. I think these airbags need to be recalled as they are dangerous and can cause serious injury.