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2011 Chevrolet Cruze (Courtesy: GM)

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2011-2012 Chevrolet Cruze

Why it's on this list: Three recalls announced in 2012 (two of them adding onto model-year 2011 recalls)

Covering:

Driver side frontal airbag may not deploy (13V22000, 2,949 total vehicles)
Fuel tank weld spots/fuel leak/possible fire (12V289000, 53,239 Cruzes)
Oil spilling or dripping/engine compartment fire (12V288000, 413,148 Cruzes)

Manufacturer's hotline: 866-694-6546

The Chevrolet Cruze is worlds better than the Cobalt that preceded it; and here at The Car Connection it's one of our favorite (and top-rated) compact sedans. Yet the Cruze had something of a rough first year on the market, with a total of five recalls announced in 2011 affecting the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze. We thought 2012 could only get better, but the 2012 Chevy Cruze was affected by three recalls during 2012 (and a fourth by now)—and to make matters worse, two of those largest-scale recalls (over fire concerns from leaking fuel and oil) extended back to the 2011 models. Give credit to GM for getting it these fixes out; and we hope the road gets less bumpy in 2013.

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car follower Posted: 2/26/2013 5:00pm PST

I can't get too worked up about recalls like a lot of people. If the manufacturer has found a safety problem or something that might fail early and gets on top of it I applaud them. There was a time when something that wasn't right was neglected and manufacturer corrected in the next years model. As for the previous years purchaser he or she was SOL. Unless you had a good dealer's service manager that would go to bat for you when it came to warranty. And then we are all aware of the old 'fix if it fails' warranty. There again a good dealer's Service Manager would get every owners car fixed.

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