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CHEVROLET LUMINA

1998 CHEVROLET LUMINA

1 safety recall campaign, 3 defect investigations, 276 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.

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The record

Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations3
Owner complaints276
Complaints citing a crash12
Complaints citing a fire6

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

15V7010002015-10-26

ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE

Engine oil that drips onto the hot surface of the exhaust manifold may result in a fire.

What owners report most

  • 20STEERING:RACK AND PINION
  • 20STEERING
  • 13SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP
  • 11POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
  • 11ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE
  • 10ENGINE
  • 10AIR BAGS
  • 9ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE

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Two 1998 CHEVROLET LUMINAs 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.

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