2020 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE — Complaint #2005250
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM filed July 6, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2005250 (ODI reference 11599542) concerns a 2020 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE and was filed on July 6, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 23, 2024. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:exhaust system, 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 engine and engine cooling:exhaust system 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 2020 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The bracket on the front exhaust pipe broke off and created a hole in the exhaust pipe which caused the catalytic converter to become detached from the engine. A recall has already been issued for the previous model year of traverse but the issue is still occurring on this year vehicle.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2005250 |
| ODI Number | 11599542 |
| Date Filed | July 6, 2024 |
| Failure Date | June 23, 2024 |
| VIN | 1GNERGKWXLJ |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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