2013 BUICK VERANO — Complaint #1558025
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM filed April 15, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558025 (ODI reference 11196437) concerns a 2013 BUICK VERANO and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 5, 2019. The vehicle had 35,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Nevada based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical 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 BUICK VERANO cohort independently describe similar electrical 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 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 AT ANY SPEED, THE 2013 BUICK VERANO LOST POWER, DOORS WOULD UNLOCK, THEN POWER WOULD COME BACK ON AND DOORS WOULD LOCK. THIS WOULD HAPPEN REPEATEDLY, IN ADDITION, THE WRENCH ICON ILLUMINATED AND THE FAILURE RECURRED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO NEWBY BUICK GMC (435-673-1100, LOCATED AT 1629 S CONVENTION CENTER DR, ST. GEORGE, UT 84790), BUT THE CAUSE OF THE FAILURE COULD NOT BE DIAGNOSED. THE FAILURE RECURRED AND THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN BACK TO THE SAME DEALER, BUT THEY DID DIAGNOSE THE FAILURE AND WAS ELECTRICAL. ISSUES. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE AND DID NOT ASSIST. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 35,500. *TT CONSUMER STATED VEHICLE WAS TRADED IN ON 5/7/19*JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558025 |
| ODI Number | 11196437 |
| Date Filed | April 15, 2019 |
| Failure Date | March 5, 2019 |
| VIN | 1G4PP5SK8D4 |
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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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