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2010 NISSAN 370Z — Complaint #1539067

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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI-THEFT DEVICE filed February 12, 2019

NHTSA complaint #1539067 (ODI reference 11176456) concerns a 2010 NISSAN 370Z and was filed on February 12, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 4, 2019. The vehicle had 19,800 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 steering:column locking:anti-theft device, 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 NISSAN 370Z cohort independently describe similar steering:column locking:anti-theft device 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 2010 NISSAN 370Z shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2010 NISSAN 370Z
Component
STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI-THEFT DEVICE
State
Louisiana
Mileage
19,800 mi

Complaint Description

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2010 NISSAN 370Z. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE FAILED TO START WHEN THE ENGINE BUTTON WAS PRESSED. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHO DIAGNOSED THAT THE ELECTRIC STEERING COLUMN LOCK FAILED. THE VEHICLE WAS THEN TOWED TO RAY BRANDT NISSAN (4000 LAPALCO BOULEVARD, HARVEY, LA 70058, (504) 367-1666) WHERE THE STEERING COLUMN FAILURE WAS CONFIRMED. THE CONTACT SPOKE WITH THE MANUFACTURER TO HAVE THE VEHICLE REPAIRED PER THE NISSAN WARRANTY REGARDING THE STEERING LOCK MECHANISM, BUT THE VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED. THE MANUFACTURER PROVIDED CASE NUMBER: 34390382. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 19,800.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1539067
ODI Number 11176456
Date Filed February 12, 2019
Failure Date February 4, 2019
VIN JN1AZ4FH9AM

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