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1998 CHEVROLET BLAZER — Complaint #580647

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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:SWITCH/WIRING filed April 30, 2006

NHTSA complaint #580647 (ODI reference 10156468) concerns a 1998 CHEVROLET BLAZER and was filed on April 30, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 30, 2006. The vehicle had 91,025 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 visibility:windshield wiper/washer:switch/wiring, 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 BLAZER cohort independently describe similar visibility:windshield wiper/washer:switch/wiring 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 1998 CHEVROLET BLAZER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
1998 CHEVROLET BLAZER
Component
VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:SWITCH/WIRING
State
Minnesota
Mileage
91,025 mi

Complaint Description

WINDSHIELD WIPERS FAIL TO OPERATE WHEN SWITCHED ON AND/OR SHUT-OFF WITHOUT WARNING IN ALL POSITIONS EXCEPT THE FULL-ON POSITION. *NM

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 580647
ODI Number 10156468
Date Filed April 30, 2006
Failure Date April 30, 2006

Similar VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:SWITCH/WIRING Complaints for 1998 CHEVROLET BLAZER

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