AutoUtility currently tracks 14 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2019 Chevrolet Spark. Air Bags & Restraints issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 7 complaints (50% of submitted records). Among these NHTSA complaint records, 4 filings cite a crash, 3 report one or more injuries.

Key Problem Findings
  • • Total NHTSA Complaints: 14 reports
  • • #1 Reported Problem Area: Air Bags & Restraints (7 reports • 50% of submitted complaints)
  • • Secondary Problem Areas: Wheels & Tires (2), Powertrain & Transmission (2)
  • • Crash-Citing Complaints: 4 filings
  • • Fire-Citing Complaints: 0 filings
  • • Complaints Reporting Injuries / Fatalities: 3 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
14
Submitted to NHTSA ODI
Crash-Citing Complaints
4
Filings citing a collision
Fire-Citing Complaints
0
Filings citing smoke or fire
Complaints Reporting Injuries
3
Filings citing one or more injuries
Complaints Reporting Fatalities
0
Consumer filings citing fatalities

Most Reported Problems for 2019 Chevrolet Spark

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

#1 Problem Area 50% of complaints

Air Bags & Restraints

7 owner complaints 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.
⚠️ 4 crash reports 🩹 3 injury report entries
#2 Problem Area 14.3% of complaints

Wheels & Tires

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#3 Problem Area 14.3% of complaints

Powertrain & Transmission

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#4 Problem Area 14.3% of complaints

Driver Assistance & Safety Tech

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#5 Problem Area 14.3% of complaints

Brakes & Traction Control

2 owner complaints 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 2019 Chevrolet Spark

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

Wheels & Tires NHTSA ODI ID: #11743505
Filed: 06/11/2026

"LandGolden LG17 185/55R15 82V All Season Radial Tires purchased from Amazon (seller: Priority Tire) and professionally installed. Tires have been balanced and rotated approximately every 5000 miles. Less than 30,000 miles and tires are already at 3/32" tread due to manufacturing defect, per..."

Incident Date: 06/10/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: TIRES
Wheels & Tires NHTSA ODI ID: #11743500
Filed: 06/11/2026

"LandGolden LG17 185/55R15 82V All Season Radial Tires were purchased from Amazon (seller: Priority Tire) and professionally installed. Tires have been balanced and rotated approximately every 5000 miles. Less than 30,000 miles and tires are already at 3/32" tread due to manufacturing defect. Older..."

Incident Date: 06/19/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: TIRES
Air Bags & Restraints NHTSA ODI ID: #11657335
Crash Cited 1 Injury Entry Filed: 04/28/2025

"The contact owned a 2019 Chevrolet Spark. The contact stated that while driving at approximately 50 MPH, the contact had lost consciousness. The contact stated that an emergency services vehicle was behind her and had observed her go through an intersection, crash through and guardrail, and roll..."

Incident Date: 03/28/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: AIR BAGS
Other / Miscellaneous NHTSA ODI ID: #11640960
Filed: 02/05/2025

"Car is hesitating alot from a stop and has locked up. Engine light came on. Had it diagnosed and the codes came up Transmission control module (Tcm). Cant find the part and the ine i did find was 800. It's only 6 years old and should not have Transmission problems and be locking up on me."

Incident Date: 01/08/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Powertrain & Transmission NHTSA ODI ID: #11615655
Filed: 09/20/2024

"I have a 2019 Chevy Spark after doing research it appears that the Spark has a high transmission failure"

Incident Date: 09/20/2024 • Raw NHTSA Component: POWER TRAIN
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 Spark

Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2015–2022)

Model Year NHTSA Complaints Crash Reports Safety Recalls Detailed Report
2015 Chevrolet Spark 83 4 7 View 2015 Problems →
2016 Chevrolet Spark 42 3 3 View 2016 Problems →
2017 Chevrolet Spark 29 5 1 View 2017 Problems →
2018 Chevrolet Spark 9 0 0 View 2018 Problems →
2019 Chevrolet Spark Current Page 14 4 1 Current
2020 Chevrolet Spark 19 6 0 View 2020 Problems →
2021 Chevrolet Spark 6 2 0 View 2021 Problems →
2022 Chevrolet Spark 3 1 0 View 2022 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 2019 Chevrolet Spark

Complete distribution of consumer defect reports across all 11 granular NHTSA system and subsystem classifications

Vehicle Component / System Total Complaints Crash Reports Fire Reports Reported Injury Entries Reported Fatality Entries
Air Bags NHTSA category: AIR BAGS 3 3 0 2 0
Tires NHTSA category: TIRES 2 0 0 0 0
AIR BAGS,SEAT BELTS,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 1 0 0 0 0
AIR BAGS,SERVICE BRAKES,ENGINE 1 0 0 0 0
AIR BAGS,STRUCTURE 1 1 0 1 0
Electrical System NHTSA category: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 1 0 0 0 0
Powertrain NHTSA category: POWER TRAIN 1 0 0 0 0
POWER TRAIN,AIR BAGS 1 0 0 0 0
Service Brakes NHTSA category: SERVICE BRAKES 1 0 0 0 0
Other / Uncategorized NHTSA category: UNKNOWN OR OTHER 1 0 0 0 0
Vehicle Speed Control NHTSA category: VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL 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 (14). 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 2019 Chevrolet Spark

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.