2016 CHEVROLET VOLT — Complaint #1557795
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed April 14, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1557795 (ODI reference 11196115) concerns a 2016 CHEVROLET VOLT and was filed on April 14, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 10, 2019. The vehicle had 39,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train, 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 CHEVROLET VOLT cohort independently describe similar power train 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 2016 CHEVROLET VOLT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
ALL VEHICLE SYSTEMS ARE NOT REGISTERING THAT THE VEHICLE IS IN PARK WHEN THE SHIFTER IS IN THE PARK POSITION. THE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER GEAR INDICATOR REGISTERS THE VEHICLE AS IN PARK, BUT WHEN ATTEMPTING TO POWER DOWN THE VEHICLE AN ERROR MESSAGE OCCURS DIRECTING THE DRIVER TO SHIFT THE VEHICLE INTO PARK. WHEN EXITING THE VEHICLE THE DOORS WILL NOT LOCK.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1557795 |
| ODI Number | 11196115 |
| Date Filed | April 14, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 10, 2019 |
| VIN | 1G1RC6S58GU |
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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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