14V417000
EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL
Exposed wires increase the risk of electrical shock and personal injury if the cord is handled while it is plugged in.
2012 CHEVROLET SONIC
7 safety recall campaigns, 2 defect investigations (1 open), 519 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns7
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations21 open
Owner complaints519
Complaints citing a crash48
Complaints citing a fire7
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
14V315000
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
If the transmission turbine shaft fracture occurs during vehicle operation in first or second gear, the vehicle will not upshift to the third through sixth gears, limiting the vehicle's speed. If the fracture occurs during operation in third through sixth gear, the vehicle will coast until it slows enough to downshift to first or second gear, increasing the risk of a crash.
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.
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.
12V408000
VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER
A lack of washer fluid could impede the driver's view, increasing the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 151POWER TRAIN
- 82ENGINE
- 56ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 46UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 34AIR BAGS
- 19SUSPENSION
- 16FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 15VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2012 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.