2018 CHEVROLET VOLT — Complaint #1995167
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM:EMISSION CONTROL:GAS RECIRCULATION VALVE (EGR VALVE) filed May 29, 2024
NHTSA complaint #1995167 (ODI reference 11591307) concerns a 2018 CHEVROLET VOLT and was filed on May 29, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 8, 2024. The vehicle had 55,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:exhaust system:emission control:gas recirculation valve (egr valve), one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CHEVROLET VOLT cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling:exhaust system:emission control:gas recirculation valve (egr valve) failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2018 CHEVROLET VOLT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2018 Chevrolet. The contact stated that on several occasions while driving at various speeds, the vehicle lost motive power with the check engine warning light illuminated. The vehicle was steered to the side of the road and restarted each time, but the failure persisted. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the EGR valve needed to be replaced and 40 unknown DTC codes had been retrieved. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 55,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1995167 |
| ODI Number | 11591307 |
| Date Filed | May 29, 2024 |
| Failure Date | May 8, 2024 |
| VIN | 1G1RB6S51JU |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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