Chevrolet Aveo /Kalos, Captiva, Epica/Tosca, Lacetti/Nubira/Optra, Matiz/Spark

The risk

The affected vehicles may in some instances experience spongy brakes, increased brake pedal travel and in some cases reduced brake performance, caused by a valve sticking within the ABS module. These conditions may cause an accident, resulting in injuries to the passengers.

Product: The recall concerns the following models:MY2009 ~ 2011 Chevrolet Aveo /KalosMY2007 ~ 2010 Chevrolet CaptivaMY2008 ~ 2010 Chevrolet Epica/ToscaMY2007 ~ 2008 Chevrolet Lacetti/Nubira/OptraMY2007 ~ 2009 Chevrolet Matiz/SparkThe VIN ranges of affected vehicles are

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · official text, unchanged

Measures taken

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Other Category of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users Date of entry into force: Unknown

Models on CarsLore

The alert names these models; open one for its complaints, recalls in other countries and inspection results.

• Chevrolet Aveo
• Chevrolet Captiva
• Chevrolet Matiz
• Chevrolet Optra
• Chevrolet Spark
• Chevrolet epica

Other injuries alerts in 2012

116 of the 146 motor vehicle alerts published in 2012 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2012

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2012

Other recalls for the same models

The same models in recall campaigns from NHTSA, Transport Canada, the EU Safety Gate and the Dutch RDW.

All recalls for this model: Chevrolet Aveo

More Chevrolet alerts

39 EU Safety Gate alerts for Chevrolet since 2006; the most were issued in 2014 (8).

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