2004 CHEVROLET COLORADO — Complaint #608750
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:REAR:SPRINGS:LEAF SPRING ASSEMBLY:LEAF filed January 6, 2007
NHTSA complaint #608750 (ODI reference 10177987) concerns a 2004 CHEVROLET COLORADO and was filed on January 6, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 11, 2006. The vehicle had 31,413 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:rear: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 COLORADO cohort independently describe similar suspension:rear: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 2004 CHEVROLET COLORADO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
(1) INTERMITTENT NOISE FROM REAR SUSPENSION: MAY BE RELEVANT (2) WHILE DRIVING AT FREEWAY SPEED ON I-15 SOUTH, NORTH OF SAN DIEGO, CA, HEARD NOISE; MANAGED TO DRIVE TRUCK (2004 CHEVY COLORADO) TO NEAREST EXIT, COASTED TO A STOP. ALL THE WHILE, THE TRUCK VIBRATED VIOLENTLY AND I BARELY AVOIDED CRASHING INTO OTHER VEHICLES. A CHEVY DEALERSHIP LOCATED NEARBY INSPECTED THE TRUCK, DETERMINED THAT REAR RIGHT SIDE LEAF-SPRING BROKE AT EYE AND ENTIRE DRIVETRAIN SUFFERED SUBSEQUENT DAMAGE AS THE TRUCK WAS DRIVEN FOR SEVERAL MILES WITH THE LEAF SPRING BROKEN (3) GM AREA SERVICE MANAGER REFUSED TO COVER THE REPAIR UNDER WARRANTY, STATING THAT "USUAL CAUSE IS IMPACT RELATED". GM AND DEALERSHIP CATEGORICALLY REFUSED TO ADVISE THE OWNER IN WRITING REASON FOR WARRANTY COVERAGE DENIAL. OWNER REQUESTED IN WRITING, BEFORE AUTHORIZING REPAIR, THAT OLD PARTS BE RETURNED FOR THE SPECIFIC PURPOSE OF FAILURE ANALYSIS AS OWNER SUSPECTED MANUFACTURER OR INSTALLATION DEFECT. DEALER PROMISED TO SAVE OLD P
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 608750 |
| ODI Number | 10177987 |
| Date Filed | January 6, 2007 |
| Failure Date | May 11, 2006 |
| VIN | 1GCCS196648 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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