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Chevrolet Impala · 2018

1 recall affects this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.

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  • Severity pendingNHTSA·18V576000·2018-08-30

    GM Recalls 2018-2019 Vehicles for Rear Brake Caliper Coating Defect

    General Motors is recalling 2018-2019 Chevrolet, GMC, Buick, and Cadillac vehicles because rear brake caliper pistons may have insufficient coating, potentially reducing braking performance.

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    CHEVROLET — CHEVROLET, CADILLAC, BUICK IMPALA, VOLT, XTS, BOLT EV
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    Distribution
    Distributed nationwide

NHTSA crash-test safety rating

Federal 5-Star Safety Rating from crash testing. This is a separate government program from the recall(s) above — a high star rating says nothing about whether a specific recall has been fixed, and a recall says nothing about crash-test performance.

Source: NHTSA New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), a federal crash-test program — not a recall record.

Wider context for this vehicle

Beyond the official recalls above. These are third-party figures derived from NHTSA complaint data — useful signal, but not part of our verified recall record.

Federal investigations

  • PE20011 Preliminary Evaluation · fuel/propulsion system
  • AQ17002 Audit Query · steering:electric power assist system
  • DP14001 Defect Petition · air bags:frontal:sensor/control module-inactive
  • PE14010 Preliminary Evaluation · forward collision avoidance: adaptive cruise control

Complaint clusters with no matching recall

  • 2008 · steering 94 complaints, median 63,000 mi
    Includes 1 alleging a fire. Unverified owner allegations from complaint filings — not confirmed by any agency.
  • 2006 · powertrain 93 complaints, median 83,000 mi
    Includes 2 alleging a fire. Unverified owner allegations from complaint filings — not confirmed by any agency.
  • 2009 · cruise-control 90 complaints, median 94,600 mi
  • 2015 · electrical 89 complaints, median 61,951 mi
    Includes 3 alleging a fire. Unverified owner allegations from complaint filings — not confirmed by any agency.
  • 2008 · powertrain 80 complaints, median 81,352 mi

Technical service bulletins

1,451 manufacturer service bulletins across 16 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.

Third-party reliability score

  • 2020: 4.3/5 · 15 complaints · most complained-of: steering
  • 2019: 4.1/5 · 28 complaints · most complained-of: electrical
  • 2018: 3.9/5 · 59 complaints · most complained-of: powertrain
  • 2017: 3.9/5 · 116 complaints · most complained-of: airbags
  • 2016: 3.9/5 · 111 complaints · most complained-of: electrical

This is ProblemsByVin’s own published heuristic (1 worst – 5 best), not an official rating and unrelated to our severity scale.

Data on this panel comes from ProblemsByVin, derived from US NHTSA owner complaints and recalls, and licensed CC BY 4.0. It is not published by a federal agency and is not part of our verified recall record.

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