2013 BUICK VERANO — Complaint #1479108
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:REAR:SPRINGS:COIL SPRINGS filed June 28, 2018
NHTSA complaint #1479108 (ODI reference 11104564) concerns a 2013 BUICK VERANO and was filed on June 28, 2018. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 1, 2018. The vehicle had 83,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New York 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 BUICK VERANO 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 2013 BUICK VERANO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2013 BUICK VERANO. WHILE DRIVING VARIOUS SPEEDS, THE REAR OF THE VEHICLE WOULD BECOME UNSTABLE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE LOCAL DEALER (PARK FORD OF MAHOPAC, 276 US-6, MAHOPAC, NY) WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE REAR DRIVER'S SIDE COIL SPRING WAS FAULTY AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS CONTACTED AND INFORMED THE CONTACT THAT THE PART NEEDED TO REPAIR THE VEHICLE WAS DISCONTINUED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 83,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1479108 |
| ODI Number | 11104564 |
| Date Filed | June 28, 2018 |
| Failure Date | June 1, 2018 |
| VIN | 1G4PP5SK5D4 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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