2005 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX — Complaint #663193
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:GEAR BOX:SHAFT PITMAN filed March 26, 2008
NHTSA complaint #663193 (ODI reference 10222411) concerns a 2005 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX and was filed on March 26, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 19, 2008. The vehicle had 25,300 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:gear box:shaft pitman, 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 GRAND PRIX cohort independently describe similar steering:gear box:shaft pitman 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 2005 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TIE ROD FAILURE DRIVERS SIDE THEN LEAK IN TIE-ROD RACK AND PINION DRIVER'S SIDE AS A RESULT OF REPAIR. NOTIFIED DEALER WHILE UNDER WARRANTY THAT POWER STEERING FLUID WAS LOW AND THEY DID NOT ASSIST IN A CHECK. I HAD TO PAY AFTER WARRANTY EXPIRATION FOR REPAIR. FUEL TANK BAND LOOSE HAD TO BE RETIED. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 663193 |
| ODI Number | 10222411 |
| Date Filed | March 26, 2008 |
| Failure Date | February 19, 2008 |
| VIN | 2G2WR544751 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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