2008 CHEVROLET CORVETTE — Complaint #1558621
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM filed April 17, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558621 (ODI reference 11196864) concerns a 2008 CHEVROLET CORVETTE and was filed on April 17, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 15, 2019. The vehicle had 81,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Arkansas 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 CORVETTE 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 2008 CHEVROLET CORVETTE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 CHEVROLET CORVETTE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THERE WAS AN ABNORMAL ODOR OF FUEL EMERGING FROM THE VEHICLE. THE CONTACT ALSO NOTICED FUEL LEAKING FROM THE FUEL TANK AREA AND THE CHECK ENGINE INDICATOR WAS ILLUMINATED. THE LOCAL DEALER AND MANUFACTURER WERE NOT CONTACTED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 81,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558621 |
| ODI Number | 11196864 |
| Date Filed | April 17, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 15, 2019 |
| VIN | 1G1YY26W685 |
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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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