2009 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE — Complaint #1063300
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:PUMP filed May 8, 2014
NHTSA complaint #1063300 (ODI reference 10587252) concerns a 2009 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE and was filed on May 8, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 2, 2014. The vehicle had 93,186 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:hydraulic power assist:pump, 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. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
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 TRAVERSE cohort independently describe similar steering:hydraulic power assist:pump 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 2009 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2009 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING AT VARIOUS SPEEDS, THE STEERING WHEEL BECAME VERY DIFFICULT TO TURN. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER WHO DIAGNOSED THAT THE POWER STEERING PUMP WAS DEFECTIVE. THE POWER STEERING PUMP WAS REPLACED AND THE STEERING GEAR TOE WAS ADJUSTED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 93,186.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1063300 |
| ODI Number | 10587252 |
| Date Filed | May 8, 2014 |
| Failure Date | May 2, 2014 |
| VIN | 1GNER23DX9S |
Similar STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:PUMP Complaints for 2009 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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