2014 CHEVROLET CAPTIVA — Complaint #1300221
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NHTSA Complaint about INTERIOR LIGHTING filed July 21, 2016
NHTSA complaint #1300221 (ODI reference 10887386) concerns a 2014 CHEVROLET CAPTIVA and was filed on July 21, 2016. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 18, 2016. The vehicle had 38,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Louisiana based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as interior lighting, 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: 1, 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 CAPTIVA cohort independently describe similar interior lighting 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 2014 CHEVROLET CAPTIVA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2014 CHEVROLET CAPTIVA. WHEN THE AIR CONDITIONER WAS ACTIVATED, AN AMMONIA ODOR EMITTED FROM THE VENTS WITHOUT WARNING. AS A RESULT, THE CONTACT SUSTAINED BURNING AND IRRITATION TO THE EYES. IN ADDITION, THE INTERIOR DOME LIGHT CONTINUOUSLY FLICKERED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURES. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 38,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1300221 |
| ODI Number | 10887386 |
| Date Filed | July 21, 2016 |
| Failure Date | July 18, 2016 |
| VIN | 3GNAL4EK8ES |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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