2008 CHEVROLET COBALT — Complaint #1858927
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER filed December 12, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1858927 (ODI reference 11497109) concerns a 2008 CHEVROLET COBALT and was filed on December 12, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 25, 2022. The vehicle had 70,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Minnesota based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, other, 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, other 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 COBALT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact's son owns a 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt. The contact's son stated while driving at approximately 30 MPH, he could smell gasoline inside the cabin of the vehicle. The contactâs son stated that once he had parked the vehicle, he saw fuel leaking from underneath the rear driverâs side wheel well. The contact stated no warning light was illuminated. The contact had the vehicle towed to a local dealer, where it was diagnosed and determined that the fuel line was corroded and needed to be replaced. The contact researched online and related the failure to NHTSA Action Number: PE20011 (Fuel System, Other). The vehicle had not been repaired. The manufacturer had been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 70,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1858927 |
| ODI Number | 11497109 |
| Date Filed | December 12, 2022 |
| Failure Date | November 25, 2022 |
| VIN | 1G1AL18F987 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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