2015 CHEVROLET CAMARO — Complaint #2020802
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:DEFROSTER/DEFOGGER/HVAC SYSTEM:AIR HANDLER/CHAMBER, DUCTS, AND VALVES filed August 30, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2020802 (ODI reference 11611753) concerns a 2015 CHEVROLET CAMARO and was filed on August 30, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2021. The vehicle had 30,000 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 visibility:defroster/defogger/hvac system:air handler/chamber, ducts, and valves, 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 CAMARO cohort independently describe similar visibility:defroster/defogger/hvac system:air handler/chamber, ducts, and valves 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 CAMARO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2015 Chevrolet Camaro. The contact stated that the heater and A/C were inoperable. There was no heat and no cold air. The contact stated that sometimes the wrong temperature was distributed through the vents. There were no warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic, who recharged the HVAC. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer, where it was diagnosed that the failure was due to the blend door actuator. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and referred the contact to the NHTSA Hotline. The failure mileage was approximately 30,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2020802 |
| ODI Number | 11611753 |
| Date Filed | August 30, 2024 |
| Failure Date | January 1, 2021 |
| VIN | 2G1FD3D39F9 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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