2008 BUICK LUCERNE — Complaint #1558678
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM filed April 17, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558678 (ODI reference 11196310) concerns a 2008 BUICK LUCERNE and was filed on April 17, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 7, 2016. The report was geocoded to New York 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 LUCERNE 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 2008 BUICK LUCERNE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2008 BUICK LUCERNE. CONSUMER WRITES SEEKING REIMBURSEMENT FOR VEHICLE REPAIRS. *LD THE CONSUMER REQUESTED TO BE REIMBURSED FOR REPAIRS TO THE REAR ELECTRICAL CENTER. THE VEHICLE EXCEEDED THE MILEAGE PARAMETERS. *JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558678 |
| ODI Number | 11196310 |
| Date Filed | April 17, 2019 |
| Failure Date | May 7, 2016 |
| VIN | 1G4HE57YX8U |
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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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