2015 CHEVROLET SPARK — Complaint #1743772
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:INTERNAL:GEARS filed April 26, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1743772 (ODI reference 11414037) concerns a 2015 CHEVROLET SPARK and was filed on April 26, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 18, 2021. The vehicle had 119,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:automatic transmission:internal:gears, 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 SPARK cohort independently describe similar power train:automatic transmission:internal:gears 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 2015 CHEVROLET SPARK shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2015 CHEVROLET SPARK. THE CONTACT STATED WHILE STATIONARY, THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT SHIFT GEAR. THE CONTACT SLAMMED THE SHIFTER INTO DRIVE AND DROVE THE VEHICLE HOME. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE COULD BE RESTARTED HOWEVER, THE TRANSMISSION WAS INOPERABLE. THERE WAS NO WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO A DEALER. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS INFORMED OF THE FAILURE AND INFORMED THE CONTACT THAT THE VIN WAS NOT UNDER RECALL. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 119,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1743772 |
| ODI Number | 11414037 |
| Date Filed | April 26, 2021 |
| Failure Date | April 18, 2021 |
| VIN | KL8CA6S93FC |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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