1999 CHEVROLET VENTURE — Complaint #434201
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:REAR WINDOW WIPER/WASHER:LINKAGES filed October 8, 2003
NHTSA complaint #434201 (ODI reference 10042563) concerns a 1999 CHEVROLET VENTURE and was filed on October 8, 2003. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 8, 2003. The report was geocoded to Indiana based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:rear window wiper/washer:linkages, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 VENTURE cohort independently describe similar visibility:rear window wiper/washer:linkages 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 1999 CHEVROLET VENTURE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
REAR PASSENGER'S WINDOW EXPLODED WHILE DRIVING AT 30 MPH. FORTUNATELY SEAT WAS EMPTY AND NOBODY WAS HURT.*AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 434201 |
| ODI Number | 10042563 |
| Date Filed | October 8, 2003 |
| Failure Date | October 8, 2003 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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