2003 CHEVROLET CORVETTE — Complaint #559634
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:LEAF SPRING ASSEMBLY:LEAF filed October 22, 2005
NHTSA complaint #559634 (ODI reference 10140502) concerns a 2003 CHEVROLET CORVETTE and was filed on October 22, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 22, 2005. The vehicle had 6,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Kentucky based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:springs:leaf spring assembly:leaf, 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 CORVETTE cohort independently describe similar suspension:front:springs:leaf spring assembly:leaf 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 CORVETTE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
FRONT END OF CAR FALLS DOWN DUE TO BROKEN LEAF SPRING WHEN TAKEN THROUGH A CAR WASH. SECOND OCCURRENCE. PART WAS JUST REPLACED A MONTH AGO AND BROKE AGAIN. *JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 559634 |
| ODI Number | 10140502 |
| Date Filed | October 22, 2005 |
| Failure Date | October 22, 2005 |
| VIN | 1G1YY22G635 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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