2021 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE — Complaint #1965233
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NHTSA Complaint about Carry Handle, Shell, Base filed February 6, 2024
NHTSA complaint #1965233 (ODI reference 11570416) concerns a 2021 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE and was filed on February 6, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 24, 2024. The report was geocoded to Indiana based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as carry handle, shell, base, 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 TRAVERSE cohort independently describe similar carry handle, shell, base 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 2021 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
When this seat is first installed with the seat belt, it has a tight fit. However, the install seems to loosen for no apparent reason on its own. This occurs frequently. The seat is properly installed with pulling the slack out of the seat belt, securing the snuglock, and then locking the vehicle seat belt. I am concerned that the install will loosen in the event of an accident, and my toddler will not be properly secured. When the seat loosens, it moves more than one inch from side to side. It has even loosened so much that it began visibly lean to one side.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1965233 |
| ODI Number | 11570416 |
| Date Filed | February 6, 2024 |
| Failure Date | January 24, 2024 |
| VIN | 1GNERJKW4MJ |
Similar Carry Handle, Shell, Base Complaints for 2021 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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