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2003 CHEVROLET SILVERADO — Complaint #484661

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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:LEAF SPRING ASSEMBLY:SHACKLE filed July 14, 2004

NHTSA complaint #484661 (ODI reference 10081967) concerns a 2003 CHEVROLET SILVERADO and was filed on July 14, 2004. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 14, 2004. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:springs:leaf spring assembly:shackle, 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 SILVERADO cohort independently describe similar suspension:front:springs:leaf spring assembly:shackle 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 2003 CHEVROLET SILVERADO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2003 CHEVROLET SILVERADO
Component
SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:LEAF SPRING ASSEMBLY:SHACKLE
State
North Carolina

Complaint Description

WHILE DRIVING AT ANY SPEED VEHICLE PULLED TO LEFT. DEALERSHIP REPLACED THE LEAF COIL SPRING AND TWO SPACE BARS. BUT, PROBLEM STILL RECURRED. MANUFACTURER ADMITTED THERE WAS A PROBLEM ,BUT THEY DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO RESOLVE IT. *AK

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 484661
ODI Number 10081967
Date Filed July 14, 2004
Failure Date July 14, 2004
VIN 1GCEC14XX3Z

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