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1995 CHEVROLET ASTRO — Complaint #553907

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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:TORSION BAR filed September 12, 2005

NHTSA complaint #553907 (ODI reference 10136168) concerns a 1995 CHEVROLET ASTRO and was filed on September 12, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 15, 2002. The vehicle had 100,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Minnesota based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:springs:torsion bar, 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 ASTRO cohort independently describe similar suspension:front:springs:torsion bar 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 1995 CHEVROLET ASTRO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
1995 CHEVROLET ASTRO
Component
SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:TORSION BAR
State
Minnesota
Mileage
100,000 mi

Complaint Description

DT: THE TORSION BARS ARE BREAKING AND IT DROPS THE SUSPENSION. DO NOT HAVE ANY STEERING. CONSUMER'S WIFE WAS COMING OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY AND THE TORSION BAR. THE CONSUMER CONTACTED GM, THEY SAID THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH CAUSE. CONSUMER BELIEVED THAT THE SALT ON ROADWAY CAUSED THEM TO RUST. THIS HAPPENED ON JUNE 15, 2002. DID HAVE BOTH BARS REPAIRED AND SOLD THE VEHICLE.*AK *JB

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 553907
ODI Number 10136168
Date Filed September 12, 2005
Failure Date June 15, 2002

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