2002 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER — Complaint #392553
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY:BANJO HOUSING filed February 4, 2003
NHTSA complaint #392553 (ODI reference 10006433) concerns a 2002 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER and was filed on February 4, 2003. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 15, 2001. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:axle assembly:banjo housing, 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 TRAILBLAZER cohort independently describe similar power train:axle assembly:banjo housing 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 2002 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
THE TRANSMISSION SUDDENLY LOCKED UP, THROWING PASSENGERS FORWARD WITH GREAT FORCE. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION. PH
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 392553 |
| ODI Number | 10006433 |
| Date Filed | February 4, 2003 |
| Failure Date | August 15, 2001 |
| VIN | 1GNDT13S122 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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