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2008 CHEVROLET HHR — Complaint #665611

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST:HYDRAULIC filed April 14, 2008

NHTSA complaint #665611 (ODI reference 10224414) concerns a 2008 CHEVROLET HHR and was filed on April 14, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 12, 2008. The vehicle had 1,330 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:power assist:hydraulic, 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 HHR cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:power assist:hydraulic 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 2008 CHEVROLET HHR shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2008 CHEVROLET HHR
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST:HYDRAULIC
State
Michigan
Mileage
1,330 mi

Complaint Description

HHR SS HAS A HARD PEDAL AND DOES NOT STOP EASILY ON IN A NORMAL DISTANCE. THIS HAS OCCURRED 4 TIMES AFTER SITTING IN COLD WEATHER FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD. IT TAKES ABOUT A MINUTE OF WARM-UP TO HAVE THE HARD PEDAL-NON BRAKING TO CORRECT TO NORMAL. *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 665611
ODI Number 10224414
Date Filed April 14, 2008
Failure Date April 12, 2008
VIN 3GNDA63X48S

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