2006 PONTIAC SOLSTICE — Complaint #581232
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY:AXLE SHAFT:SEAL filed May 5, 2006
NHTSA complaint #581232 (ODI reference 10156898) concerns a 2006 PONTIAC SOLSTICE and was filed on May 5, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 29, 2006. The vehicle had 1,537 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:axle assembly:axle shaft:seal, 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 PONTIAC SOLSTICE cohort independently describe similar power train:axle assembly:axle shaft:seal 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 2006 PONTIAC SOLSTICE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2006 PONTIAC SOLSTICE REAR DIFFERENTIAL PINION GASKET LEAK REPAIRED BY GM ON 5/2/06. *JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 581232 |
| ODI Number | 10156898 |
| Date Filed | May 5, 2006 |
| Failure Date | April 29, 2006 |
| VIN | 1G2MB33BX6Y |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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