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2002 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER EXT — Complaint #590232

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NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:RECREATIONAL VEHICLE/TRAILER:LPG SYSTEMS:TANK ASSEMBLY filed July 28, 2006

NHTSA complaint #590232 (ODI reference 10163769) concerns a 2002 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER EXT and was filed on July 28, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 25, 2006. The vehicle had 86,692 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Tennessee based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:recreational vehicle/trailer:lpg systems:tank assembly, 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 TRAILBLAZER EXT cohort independently describe similar equipment:recreational vehicle/trailer:lpg systems:tank assembly 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 2002 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER EXT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2002 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER EXT
Component
EQUIPMENT:RECREATIONAL VEHICLE/TRAILER:LPG SYSTEMS:TANK ASSEMBLY
State
Tennessee
Mileage
86,692 mi

Complaint Description

CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON MY 2002 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER (86,000 MILES). TEAM CHEVROLET ANALYZED AND ADVISED THE GAS TANK IS CRACKED. THIS SAME PROBLEM OCCURRED AT 12,000 MILES BUT WAS REPAIRED FOR FREE AS VEHICLE WAS UNDER WARRANTY AND THERE WAS AN ALERT ISSUED FOR THIS PROBLEM. HOWEVER, THE ALERT "POLICY" RAN OUT AT 70,000 MILES SO THE DEALERSHIP, NOR GM WILL COVER THE ESTIMATED EXPENSES OF $850. I PROTESTED THAT THIS WAS A KNOWN AND REPEATED PROBLEM AND A FIRE/SAFETY ISSUE BUT THEY ARE NOT WILLING TO ASSIST IN ANY WAY. *JB

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 590232
ODI Number 10163769
Date Filed July 28, 2006
Failure Date July 25, 2006
VIN 1GNES16S526

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