Is This A Lemon?

Year · Make · Model

1992 GEO Metro

What the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration knows about this vehicle: every recall, every consumer complaint, every defect investigation, every NCAP crash test. Sourced directly from NHTSA data feeds.

1
Open recalls
54
NHTSA complaints
1
Defect investigations
1
Service bulletins

NCAP safety

Overall
Not rated
Frontal
Not rated
Side
Not rated
Rollover
Not rated

Consumer complaints

54 filed
6
Crashes
0
Fires
6
Injuries reported
1
Fatalities reported

What people complain about

  • LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:HOOD:LATCH
    6
  • Seat BELTS:FRONT:BUCKLE Assembly
    5
  • STRUCTURE:BODY:DOOR
    4
  • SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM
    3
  • AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
    3
  • Seat BELTS:FRONT:ANCHORAGE
    3
  • Service BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION Components
    2
  • SUSPENSION:FRONT:WHEEL Bearing
    2

Recalls

1 campaign
93V189001·LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:HOOD:LATCH1993-11-23

MISLOCATED ATTACHING SPOT WELDS OF THE HOOD STRIKER ASSEMBLY CAUSE CRACKS TO START ON THE HOOD INNER PANEL. IF CRACKS OCCUR, THE HOOD STRIKER ASSEMBLY MAY NOT PROPERLY ENGAGE THE HOOD LATCH WHEN THE HOOD IS CLOSED.

RiskAN IMPROPERLY ENGAGED HOOD LATCH MAY RESULT IN A HOODFLY-UP WHILE THE VEHICLE IS IN MOTION. THIS WOULD OBSTRUCT THE DRIVER'S VIEWAND COULD CAUSE A VEHICLE CRASH.

FixGM DEALERS WILL (A) INSTALL TWO BOLTS AND NUTS TO SECURE THE STRIKER ASSEMBLY TO THE HOOD INNER PANEL, AND (B) ENSURE THAT THE HOOD LATCH ASSEMBLY FASTENERS ARE PROPERLY TIGHTENED.

NHTSA investigations

1 action
EA93006·STRUCTURE1993-02-26 → 1993-11-26

HOOD FLY-UPS

Led to recall93V189000

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