2008 CADILLAC DTS — Complaint #1109373
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:HOSE, PIPING, AND CONNECTIONS filed September 15, 2014
NHTSA complaint #1109373 (ODI reference 10633152) concerns a 2008 CADILLAC DTS and was filed on September 15, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 12, 2014. The vehicle had 112,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:hydraulic power assist:hose, piping, and connections, 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 CADILLAC DTS cohort independently describe similar steering:hydraulic power assist:hose, piping, and connections 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 CADILLAC DTS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 CADILLAC DTS. WHILE DRIVING AT LOW SPEEDS, THE POWER STEERING FAILED AND SMOKE APPEARED. THE CONTACT NOTICED POWER STEERING FLUID LEAKING. THE DEALER STATED THAT THE HIGH PRESSURE HOSES NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 112,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1109373 |
| ODI Number | 10633152 |
| Date Filed | September 15, 2014 |
| Failure Date | September 12, 2014 |
| VIN | 1G6KD57Y98U |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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