2018 Chevrolet Corvette

Typical pattern

11.3% of complaints about the 2018 Chevrolet Corvette came in the first year, which is unremarkable for a 2018 vehicle — around the middle of the 182 model-years on record. The median complaint arrives at 2.0 yr in service. The most-reported system is wheels (45 complaints), typically at 2.1 yr or about 10,518 miles.

Complaints: 53
Median age at failure: 2.0 yr
Median mileage: 10,000 n=43
Crash / fire / tow: 1.9% of reports
Safety recalls: 1

Safety recalls — NHTSA campaigns

25V175000 2025-03-20

Steering:electric power assist system

General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2016-2018 Cadillac CTS, 2017-2018 Cadillac ATS, Chevrolet Camaro, and Chevrolet Corvette vehicles. The electric power steering (EPS) assist may fail.

A loss of power steering assist can require greater steering effort, especially at low speeds, increasing the risk of a crash.

In owners’ own words

Wheels 1,200 mi 11 mo in service

CORVETTE GRAND SPORT WHEELS HAVE BENT SEVERAL TIMES IN NORMAL DRIVING CONDITIONS. TWO WHEELS -1 FRONT, 1-REAR HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY OWNER. THE WHEELS SEEM TO BE NOT STRUCTURALLY STRONG ENOUGH FOR NORMAL DRIVING CONDITIONS

Wheels 3,585 mi 1.1 yr in service

WHILE TRAVELING ALONG 240 IN MEMPHIS,TN I HIT AN UNLEVEL PIECE OF PAVEMENT. MY SPEED WAS MAYBE 45 MPH. WHILE THE CAR WAS AT THE DEALER THEY SAID THAT I HAD 4 BEND RIMS. UPON INSPECTION OF THE WHEELS EACH WHEEL HAD BEEN BENT ON THE INSIDE OF THE RIMS. THIS WAS CAUSING THE CAR TO DRIVE POORLY AND CAUSE THE STEERING WHEEL TO VIBRATE.

Wheels 10,000 mi 1.3 yr in service

REAR WHEEL BENT/CRACKED. DEALER/CHEVY BLAMES THE ROADS AND WON'T COVER UNDER WARRANTY.

Other Corvette model years

How to read this

This is what owners reported, not a reliability rating. People file with NHTSA about alarming failures, not routine ones, and complaint volume tracks how many cars were sold.
Failure ages come from the incident date on each complaint, populated on about 83% of records. Mileage is shown where reported — NHTSA’s 2021 system change cut mileage capture to roughly 15%, so it thins out sharply after MY2020.
Every rank compares this vehicle only against others of the same model year. A 2025 car has not had time to accumulate five-year failures, so comparing early-failure share across years is meaningless.
Fourteen make-months distorted by media storms and mass recalls — Toyota in February 2010 ran 11× normal volume across 33 models — are excluded.
Recalls are manufacturer actions and authoritative; complaints are not. A recall listed here may already have been performed on any individual car. Check a specific VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.

2018 Chevrolet Corvette

When each system is reported — middle 50% of complaints

Safety recalls — NHTSA campaigns

In owners’ own words

Other Corvette model years

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