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2011 BUICK REGAL — Complaint #1160452

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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES filed February 25, 2015

NHTSA complaint #1160452 (ODI reference 10667997) concerns a 2011 BUICK REGAL and was filed on February 25, 2015. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 5, 2014. The report was geocoded to Arkansas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:automatic transmission:cooling unit and lines, 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 REGAL cohort independently describe similar power train:automatic transmission:cooling unit and lines 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 2011 BUICK REGAL shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2011 BUICK REGAL
Component
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES
State
Arkansas

Complaint Description

2011 BUICK REGAL. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARDS TO VEHICLE REPAIR ISSUES. *SMD THE CONSUMER STATED HE RECENTLY NOTICED SEVERAL FLUID SPOTS UNDER THE VEHICLE. AN INSPECTION REVEALED THE TRANSMISSION COOLER LINES DETERIORATED WHICH CAUSED THE LEAK. *JB

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1160452
ODI Number 10667997
Date Filed February 25, 2015
Failure Date December 5, 2014
VIN W04GR5EC5B1

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