2000 Chevrolet S10 Recalls, Complaints & Specs

4 safety recalls list the 2000 Chevrolet S10, and owners have filed 471 complaints with NHTSA. Check your own VIN below.

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4 safety recalls for the 2000 Chevrolet S10

Most recent first. Recall repairs are free at any authorised dealer. Click a recall for the full defect, consequence and remedy text.

1. Labels (equipment)

   NHTSA 00V258001 Reported September 8, 2000 223,194 vehicles potentially affected GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

   Vehicle description: light duty pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles. Some of these vehicles were built with incorrect payload information on the vehicle certification label. The payload shown on the label is greater than the maximum validated payload. If the vehicle were loaded to the incorrectly labeled payload, it may not ride…

   Remedy: Owners will be sent a new label for installation on the driver's door of the vehicle.

2. Seat belts

   NHTSA 00V228003 Reported August 7, 2000 156,305 vehicles potentially affected GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

   Vehicle description: passenger vehicles, light duty trucks, sport utility vehicles, and MINI vans equipped with trw seat belt buckle assemblies. The buckle base of these seat belt assemblies were not properly heat treated and therefore do not pass the load bearing requirement of federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 209, "seat belt…

   Remedy: Dealers will inspect the vehicle's safety belt buckle assembly date codes and, if necessary, will replace any safety belt buckle assembly.

3. Antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip (service brakes)

   NHTSA 00V055000 Reported February 28, 2000 10,674 vehicles potentially affected GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

   Vehicle description: light duty pickup trucks equipped with 4-wheel disc brakes. Some of these vehicles have an antilock brake system (ABS) motor containing an out-of-specification spring clip. This clip could allow the motor bearing to become misaligned. If misalignment occurs, eventually the ABS would be non-functional.

   Remedy: Dealers will replace the brake pressure module valve assembly.

4. Antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip (service brakes)

   NHTSA 99V220000 Reported August 11, 1999 3,947 vehicles potentially affected GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

   Vehicle description: s -trucks equipped with 2 wheel drive. These vehicles may have had the right-hand antilock brake system (ABS) module feed pipe and/or brake crossover pipe tube nuts tightened without seating the pipe-flared-ends enough to withstand normal assembly and vehicle inputs without partially unseating. This does not comply…

   Remedy: Dealers will inspect the brake pipe union for signs of brake fluid, and if necessary, install a new brake pipe union.

471 owner complaints filed with NHTSA

Owners of the 2000 Chevrolet S10 have filed 471 complaints with NHTSA; 52 describe a crash and 8 describe a fire. Reports cite 46 injuries and 3 deaths. The average mileage at failure in those reports is 67,754 miles. Complaints peaked in 2001 with 67 filed that year.

Most-reported components

• Service brakes, hydraulic: antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip74
• Structure: hinge and attachments66
• Seats28
• Seats: recliner27
• Air bags: frontal21
• Power train: automatic transmission21
• Electrical system14
• Service brakes11

What owners are reporting

“My dad purchased my truck from the church secretary where he attended in March of 2015. At the time of purchase it only had 66,000 miles on it. The secretary’s father owned it and used it from new unt”

Owner complaint to NHTSA, May 16, 2024 · Service brakes

“The driver window power motor has been malfunctioning and the power steering has been not fixed in the sense of not having a functioning power steering pump”

Owner complaint to NHTSA, September 8, 2021 · Electrical system

Fuel economy and specs

EPA ratings for the 2000 Chevrolet S10 Pickup (S10 Pickup 2WD, S10 Pickup 4WD). Ranges cover every tested configuration.

Compare Chevrolet S10 model years

Recall and complaint counts for every Chevrolet S10 model year in NHTSA's database.

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Other Chevrolet models

• Malibu19,364 complaints
• Silverado 150018,029 complaints
• Impala10,434 complaints
• Tahoe10,032 complaints
• Equinox9,161 complaints
• Silverado8,799 complaints
• Blazer8,192 complaints
• Suburban8,164 complaints

Source: NHTSA recall and complaint databases and EPA fuel economy data, October 2026. Complaint counts are owner reports to NHTSA, not verified defects. Recall counts are safety campaigns that list this model year; whether a particular car was already repaired depends on its VIN. How this data is compiled.