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2024 BUICK ENVISTA — Complaint #2070130

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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER filed March 1, 2025

NHTSA complaint #2070130 (ODI reference 11645726) concerns a 2024 BUICK ENVISTA and was filed on March 1, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2025. The report was geocoded to Illinois based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:windshield wiper/washer, 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 BUICK ENVISTA cohort independently describe similar visibility:windshield wiper/washer 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 2024 BUICK ENVISTA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2024 BUICK ENVISTA
Component
VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER
State
Illinois

Complaint Description

The windshield wiper blades- especially the drivers side wiper blade- on my 2024 Buick Envista are made of subpar material, and they leave streaks on the windshield in the field of view of the driver, making for hazardous driving conditions in snowy and rainy conditions. I attempted to get wiper blade replacements from my dealer during the 2nd week of January, but the OEM wiper blade replacements are on a very long backorder. In most cases, third-party manufacturers that claim to sell a replacement wiper blade arm compatible with the vehicle feature connectors that are just a small fraction of a different size, so they are prone to coming loose from the wiper arm when driven at high speeds, or the wipers are in use. Dealers have confirmed that there is no third-party manufacturer whose replacement blade perfectly fits the connector on the OEM wiper arm. My dealer has heard of this same wiper blade being an issue on new Envista and Chevy Trax models. There are no warning lights that

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2070130
ODI Number 11645726
Date Filed March 1, 2025
Failure Date January 1, 2025
VIN KL47LBE25RB

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.