2010 BUICK ENCLAVE — Complaint #1086622
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:PUMP filed July 15, 2014
NHTSA complaint #1086622 (ODI reference 10610698) concerns a 2010 BUICK ENCLAVE and was filed on July 15, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 4, 2014. The vehicle had 108,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania 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 BUICK ENCLAVE 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 2010 BUICK ENCLAVE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2010 BUICK ENCLAVE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE STEERING WHEEL SEIZED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER, WHO DIAGNOSED THAT THE STEERING PUMP NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 108,000. UPDATED 09/16/14*LJ THE CONSUMER STATED THAT IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO MAKE TURNS AT LOW SPEEDS AND DIFFICULT TO PARK. UPDATED 1/15/15 *JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1086622 |
| ODI Number | 10610698 |
| Date Filed | July 15, 2014 |
| Failure Date | June 4, 2014 |
| VIN | 5GALVBED4AJ |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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