2006 CHEVROLET COBALT — Complaint #1675056
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE filed July 7, 2020
NHTSA complaint #1675056 (ODI reference 11338003) concerns a 2006 CHEVROLET COBALT and was filed on July 7, 2020. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 1, 2018. The vehicle had 105,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Wisconsin based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, gasoline:storage, 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 COBALT cohort independently describe similar fuel system, gasoline:storage 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 2006 CHEVROLET COBALT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2006 CHEVROLET COBALT. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE APPROACHING THE VEHICLE, HE BECAME AWARE OF A FUEL LEAK UNDER THE DRIVER'S SIDE TIRE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS STARTED AND DRIVEN TO THE RESIDENCE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO BE DIAGNOSED NOR REPAIRED. NEITHER THE DEALER NOR THE MANUFACTURER WERE MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 105,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1675056 |
| ODI Number | 11338003 |
| Date Filed | July 7, 2020 |
| Failure Date | August 1, 2018 |
| VIN | 1G1AM15B467 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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