2004 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER — Complaint #1557868
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM filed April 14, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1557868 (ODI reference 11196162) concerns a 2004 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER and was filed on April 14, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 22, 2018. The vehicle had 240,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel/propulsion system, 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 TRAILBLAZER cohort independently describe similar fuel/propulsion system 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 2004 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
STRONG SMELL OF RAW GAS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1557868 |
| ODI Number | 11196162 |
| Date Filed | April 14, 2019 |
| Failure Date | February 22, 2018 |
| VIN | 1GNDT13S242 |
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FUL PUMP
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THE CABIN SMELLS VERY STRONGLY OF GAS AND AS IS LEAKING FROM UNDER THE VEHICLE WHEN DRIVEN.
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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