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2008 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN — Complaint #1038858

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NHTSA Complaint about CHILD SEAT:LATCH CONNECTOR/CLIP filed February 15, 2014

NHTSA complaint #1038858 (ODI reference 10564499) concerns a 2008 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN and was filed on February 15, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 17, 2013. The report was geocoded to Alabama based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as child seat:latch connector/clip, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CHEVROLET SUBURBAN cohort independently describe similar child seat:latch connector/clip failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2008 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2008 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN
Component
CHILD SEAT:LATCH CONNECTOR/CLIP
State
Alabama

Complaint Description

BRITAX FASTBACK CAR SEAT PUSH BUTTON LATCH STUCK. COULDN'T RELEASE EVEN WITH TWO PEOPLE TRYING TO PUSH THE RED BUTTON. FINALLY HAD TO GET SCISSORS TO CUT THE STRAP TO REMOVE THE CHILD (RELATED VEHICLE INFORMATION: MODEL YEAR=2008, MAKE=SUBURBAN, MODEL=CHEVY). *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1038858
ODI Number 10564499
Date Filed February 15, 2014
Failure Date December 17, 2013

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.