2005 PONTIAC G6 — Complaint #544202
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION:SHIFT PATTERN INDICATOR filed July 14, 2005
NHTSA complaint #544202 (ODI reference 10128822) concerns a 2005 PONTIAC G6 and was filed on July 14, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 24, 2005. The vehicle had 1,024 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:manual transmission:shift pattern indicator, 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 PONTIAC G6 cohort independently describe similar power train:manual transmission:shift pattern indicator 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 2005 PONTIAC G6 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I HAD TAKEN A TRIP OUT OF STATE AND HAD BEEN ON THE ROAD FOR ABOUT THREE HOUR AND DECIDED TO STOP FOR DINNER, AFTER GOING THROUGH FOUR STOP LIGHTS THE TRANSMISSION STARTED SHIFTING EXTREMLY HARD IN TO GEARS, SO HARD THAT THE CAR WAS JERKING IN THE NEXT GEAR. I WENT THROUGH TWO MORE LIGHTS AND PULLED THE CAR OFF THE ROAD.THE DEALERSHIP HAD THE CAR PUT ON A ROLLBACK AND BROUGHT BACK THE N.C. AT MY REQUEST. THE SERVICE CENTER HAD THE CAR FOR NINE DAYS AND COULD NOT GET THE CAR TO REPEAT THE PROBLEM AND THE CAR WAS RETURNED TO ME WITH NO REPAIRS PREFORMED. THEY SAID THAT NO CODED SHOWED UP ON THE CARS COMPUTER.1024 MILES ON THIS G6
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 544202 |
| ODI Number | 10128822 |
| Date Filed | July 14, 2005 |
| Failure Date | June 24, 2005 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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