AutoUtility currently tracks 51 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2018 Chevrolet Corvette. Wheels & Tires issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 46 complaints (90.2% of submitted records). Among these NHTSA complaint records, 1 filing cites a crash.

Key Problem Findings
  • • Total NHTSA Complaints: 51 reports
  • • #1 Reported Problem Area: Wheels & Tires (46 reports • 90.2% of submitted complaints)
  • • Secondary Problem Areas: Brakes & Traction Control (2), Electrical System (1)
  • • Crash-Citing Complaints: 1 filings
  • • Fire-Citing Complaints: 0 filings
  • • Complaints Reporting Injuries / Fatalities: 0 injury filings • 0 fatality filings
Reporting Methodology: Statistics describe unverified consumer submissions voluntarily filed with NHTSA. Complaint volume is not normalized for vehicle sales volume or miles driven. Multiple components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission.
Total Complaints
51
Submitted to NHTSA ODI
Crash-Citing Complaints
1
Filings citing a collision
Fire-Citing Complaints
0
Filings citing smoke or fire
Complaints Reporting Injuries
0
Filings citing one or more injuries
Complaints Reporting Fatalities
0
Consumer filings citing fatalities

Most Reported Problems for 2018 Chevrolet Corvette

Top automotive subsystem defect categories ranked by unique owner complaint volume in federal records

#1 Problem Area 90.2% of complaints

Wheels & Tires

46 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#2 Problem Area 3.9% of complaints

Brakes & Traction Control

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ 1 crash report
#3 Problem Area 2% of complaints

Electrical System

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#4 Problem Area 2% of complaints

Steering System

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ NHTSA Recall Context

NHTSA records list 1 official safety recall campaign for this model year involving the same broad component area:

*Component overlap means an official recall exists for the same broad vehicle system. It does not establish that an individual owner complaint was caused by, covered by, or resolved through that recall.
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#5 Problem Area 2% of complaints

Powertrain & Transmission

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
Domain Share Note: Share percentage represents the proportion of unique complaint filings referencing each vehicle system. Because single complaints may cite multiple systems (such as engine and electrical simultaneously), domain percentages represent individual category incidence and may sum to over 100%.

Recent NHTSA Owner Reports for 2018 Chevrolet Corvette

Representative defect filings submitted by owners to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation

Wheels & Tires NHTSA ODI ID: #11632251
Filed: 12/24/2024

"Wheels on these cars commonly crack and break online. Mine have a visible crack in one of them and is losing air due to quality of wheel from Chevrolet"

Incident Date: 12/14/2024 • Raw NHTSA Component: WHEELS
Other / Miscellaneous NHTSA ODI ID: #11627601
Filed: 11/26/2024

"Multiple rim cracks due to manufacturing error. General Motors had acknowledged this but not made reimbursement possible nor provided information if defective rims are still being produced. My car was inspected and rim was repaired by a Chevy dealer and confirmed to have a cracked rim in several..."

Incident Date: 01/01/2024 • Raw NHTSA Component: UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Wheels & Tires NHTSA ODI ID: #11550568
Filed: 10/18/2023

"Inside lip of rear wheel cracked and wheel bent beyond repair, per wheel repair company. OEM make and model tire was in place and no noticeable impact was felt to cause this failure. This caused an air leak leaving me stranded at the side of the highway. Had to buy an expensive replacement wheel."

Incident Date: 07/31/2023 • Raw NHTSA Component: WHEELS
Wheels & Tires NHTSA ODI ID: #11542753
Filed: 09/05/2023

"Vehicle had a shake, and felt like it was shifting wrong. Apparently, Two of the four rims have were confirmed cracked which led to an unsafe vehicle for travel. The vehicle had approximately 15,230 miles on the tires and rims when air was leaking out. All four tires were shot. All four tires and..."

Incident Date: 08/08/2023 • Raw NHTSA Component: WHEELS
Wheels & Tires NHTSA ODI ID: #11486702
Filed: 09/27/2022

"Rear wheel cracked in 4 places inside rim towards outside causing slow leak. Could eventually crack enough to cause wheel to fail."

Incident Date: 09/21/2022 • Raw NHTSA Component: WHEELS
Consumer Narrative Notice: Excerpts are sanitized text descriptions submitted by vehicle owners to the federal ODI database. They reflect the reporting consumer's observations at the time of filing and have not been independently confirmed by vehicle manufacturers or government investigators.

Complaint History for Chevrolet Corvette

Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2015–2026)

Model Year NHTSA Complaints Crash Reports Safety Recalls Detailed Report
2015 Chevrolet Corvette 64 3 5 View 2015 Problems →
2016 Chevrolet Corvette 103 1 2 View 2016 Problems →
2017 Chevrolet Corvette 255 3 4 View 2017 Problems →
2018 Chevrolet Corvette Current Page 51 1 1 Current
2019 Chevrolet Corvette 147 0 1 View 2019 Problems →
2020 Chevrolet Corvette 34 1 4 View 2020 Problems →
2021 Chevrolet Corvette 12 1 2 View 2021 Problems →
2022 Chevrolet Corvette 20 0 1 View 2022 Problems →
2023 Chevrolet Corvette 24 1 1 View 2023 Problems →
2024 Chevrolet Corvette 21 1 2 View 2024 Problems →
2025 Chevrolet Corvette 10 0 3 View 2025 Problems →
2026 Chevrolet Corvette 0 0 0 View 2026 Problems →
Comparative Disclaimer: Complaint totals are unadjusted historical counts and are not normalized for vehicles sold, active fleet size, or total road mileage. Newer model years naturally have had less calendar exposure time to accumulate owner filings.

Detailed NHTSA Component Breakdown for 2018 Chevrolet Corvette

Complete distribution of consumer defect reports across all 8 granular NHTSA system and subsystem classifications

Vehicle Component / System Total Complaints Crash Reports Fire Reports Reported Injury Entries Reported Fatality Entries
Wheels & Hubs NHTSA category: WHEELS 43 0 0 0 0
Service Brakes NHTSA category: SERVICE BRAKES 2 1 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,WHEELS 1 0 0 0 0
Powertrain NHTSA category: POWER TRAIN 1 0 0 0 0
Steering NHTSA category: STEERING 1 0 0 0 0
STRUCTURE,WHEELS 1 0 0 0 0
Tires NHTSA category: TIRES 1 0 0 0 0
Other / Uncategorized NHTSA category: UNKNOWN OR OTHER 1 0 0 0 0
Data Attribution & Reporting Methodology: Complaints are unverified voluntary submissions to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI). Because multiple vehicle components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission, component-level rollups may sum to more than the unique complaint count (51). Injury and fatality entries in the detailed table reflect raw values entered by reporting consumers across individual submissions; they are not deduplicated casualty statistics and may include duplicate or unverified entries. Complaint volume is not normalized for sales volume or vehicle mileage and does not represent an audited component failure rate.

Related Official Reports for 2018 Chevrolet Corvette

Cross-reference safety recalls, crash test safety ratings, and EPA fuel economy for this model year

Official US Government Data Provenance

The complaint records on this page are retrieved directly from the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) public database.

Local Production Store Compiled: August 2026 • Deterministic Audited Dataset • Zero Dynamic External API Runtime Latency.