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Emissions · 1 owner report

Exhaust leak or fumes in the cabin on the 2018 Chevrolet Colorado

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 29 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $250–$2,000
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 46th

When exhaust leak or fumes in the cabin gets reported

There are 1 report of exhaust leak or fumes in the cabin on the 2018 Chevrolet Colorado. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 46th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $250–$2,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure, every year of the Chevrolet Colorado

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 2004 Chevrolet Colorado exhaust leak or fumes in the cabin 65k
  2. 2005 Chevrolet Colorado exhaust leak or fumes in the cabin 25k
  3. 2009 Chevrolet Colorado exhaust leak or fumes in the cabin 222k
  4. 2012 Chevrolet Colorado exhaust leak or fumes in the cabin 60k
  5. 2016 Chevrolet Colorado exhaust leak or fumes in the cabin 39k
  6. 2018 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  7. 2020 Chevrolet Colorado exhaust leak or fumes in the cabin
    no odometer readings given
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Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2018 Chevrolet Colorado

Other powertrain problem

51 reports median 19k

Other electrical problem

23 reports median 20k

Other engine problem

15 reports median 35k

Other steering problem

10 reports median 16k

Torque converter failure

9 reports median 13k

Wiring harness or short circuit

8 reports median 862

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 1 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed