2009 Chevrolet Cobalt defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Fuel Line Leak
  Preliminary Evaluation PE20011 · opened Jul 5, 2020 · closed Aug 17, 2023

  On July 5, 2020, the Office of Defects Investigations (ODI) opened PE20-011 to investigate instances of metal fuel lines under the vehicle corroding and leaking fuel in model year (MY) 2008 through 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt and 2008 through 2009 Chevrolet HHR passenger cars manufactured by General Motors (GM). The metal fu…

• Fleet Vehicle Recall Completion Audit
  Audit Query AQ10001 · opened Nov 18, 2010 · closed Dec 28, 2015

  On November 18, 2010, NHTSA's Recall Management Division (RMD) opened an audit query (AQ10-001) to investigate recall remedy completion by rental car companies on safety recall campaigns.It was expected to provide the agency an indication of how completely and how quickly rental car fleets perform necessary recall-rela…

• Electric Power Steering Failure
  Preliminary Evaluation PE10005 · opened Jan 27, 2010 · closed Jul 19, 2010 · led to recall 10V073000

  In a March 1, 2010 letter, General Motors Corporation (GM) provided a defect information report to NHTSA regarding a problem that could result in sudden loss of power steering assist in certain model year (MY) 2005 through 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt and MY 2007 through 2010 Pontiac G5 vehicles equipped with electric power s…