2010 CHEVROLET IMPALA — Complaint #1108714
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:REAR:SPRINGS:COIL SPRINGS filed September 12, 2014
NHTSA complaint #1108714 (ODI reference 10632681) concerns a 2010 CHEVROLET IMPALA and was filed on September 12, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 1, 2010. The vehicle had 4,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:rear:springs:coil springs, 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 IMPALA cohort independently describe similar suspension:rear:springs:coil springs 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 CHEVROLET IMPALA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2010 CHEVROLET IMPALA. WHILE DRIVING 30 MPH, THE REAR OF THE VEHICLE MADE A RATTLING NOISE. AS TIME PROGRESSED, THE RATTLING NOISE CHANGED TO A BANGING NOISE. ALSO, WHILE DRIVING AT HIGH SPEEDS, THE TRANSMISSION SUDDENLY DOWNSHIFTED TO A LOWER GEAR. THE DEALER STATED THAT THE WRONG COIL SPRINGS WERE INSTALLED ON THE VEHICLE AND A VALVE MUST BE REPLACED ON THE TRANSMISSION. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE ISSUE. THE VIN WAS INVALID. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 4,000. UPDATED 10/30/14*CN UPDATED 08/28/2017*CT
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1108714 |
| ODI Number | 10632681 |
| Date Filed | September 12, 2014 |
| Failure Date | February 1, 2010 |
| VIN | 2G1WA5EK4A1 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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