2001 PONTIAC AZTEK — Complaint #427429
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:AIR filed August 28, 2003
NHTSA complaint #427429 (ODI reference 10036757) concerns a 2001 PONTIAC AZTEK and was filed on August 28, 2003. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 8, 2001. The vehicle had 44,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:conventional:air, 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 PONTIAC AZTEK cohort independently describe similar parking brake:conventional:air 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 2001 PONTIAC AZTEK shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
OUR AIR CONDITIONER QUIT WORKING, WE THOUGHT IT JUST NEEDED TO BE RE-CHARGED, I HAD IT RE-CHARGED TWO WEEKS IN A ROLL, THEN IT QUIT WORKING AGAIN, I LOOKED ON THE INTERNET AND SAW MANY COMPLAINS ABOUT THE COMPRESSOR LEAKING IN THE AZTEK 2001, I WOULD THINK THAT A NOTIFICATION SHOULD BE SENT OUT TO CONSUMERS. OF COURSE THIS ALL HAPPENS AFTER THE WARRANTY JUST RAN OUT. YOU WANT TO INCREASE YOUR SALES AND WITH PROBLEMS LIKE THIS MANY OF US GET RATHER WEARY OF GM AUTOS.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 427429 |
| ODI Number | 10036757 |
| Date Filed | August 28, 2003 |
| Failure Date | August 8, 2001 |
| VIN | 3G7DA03E71S |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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