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2013 Chevrolet Volt - Complaint #1615581

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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed October 26, 2019

NHTSA complaint #1615581 (ODI reference 11271184) concerns a 2013 Chevrolet Volt and was filed on October 26, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 26, 2019. The vehicle had 73,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida 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 2013 Chevrolet Volt shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2013 Chevrolet Volt
Component
POWER TRAIN
State
Florida
Mileage
73,500 mi

Complaint Description

REDUCED PROPULSION WARNING. CAUSES CAR TO NOT GO OVER 40 MPH WHILE DRIVING. COVERED UNDER VOLTECH WARRANTY BUT DEALERS WANT TO CHARGE FOR THE DIAGNOSIS. UNFAIR, AS THIS IS A SAFETY CONCERN. I REFUSE TO PAY FOR A WARRANTY DIAGNOSIS.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1615581
ODI Number 11271184
Date Filed October 26, 2019
Failure Date October 26, 2019
VIN 1G1RA6E45DU

Similar POWER TRAIN Complaints for 2013 Chevrolet Volt

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.