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2011 GMC TERRAIN — Complaint #1491072

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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR filed August 14, 2018

NHTSA complaint #1491072 (ODI reference 11119873) concerns a 2011 GMC TERRAIN and was filed on August 14, 2018. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 13, 2018. The vehicle had 108,975 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:windshield wiper/washer:motor, 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 GMC TERRAIN cohort independently describe similar visibility:windshield wiper/washer:motor 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 GMC TERRAIN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2011 GMC TERRAIN
Component
VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR
State
North Carolina
Mileage
108,975 mi

Complaint Description

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2011 GMC TERRAIN. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 55 MPH IN THE RAIN, THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS STOPPED FUNCTIONING. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THERE WAS ZERO VISIBILITY TO VIEW THE ROAD. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO SUN BUICK PONTIAC GMC (4230 BIRNEY AVE, MOOSIC, PA 18507, (570) 456-6828) WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE TRANSMISSION FOR THE WIPERS FAILED AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE AND INFORMED THE CONTACT THAT THERE WAS NO RECALL ASSOCIATED WITH THE VIN. THE CONTACT WAS REFERRED TO NHTSA. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 108,975.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1491072
ODI Number 11119873
Date Filed August 14, 2018
Failure Date August 13, 2018
VIN 2CTALSEC3B6

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