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1998 CHEVROLET BLAZER — Complaint #668205

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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:SWITCH/WIRING filed May 2, 2008

NHTSA complaint #668205 (ODI reference 10226519) concerns a 1998 CHEVROLET BLAZER and was filed on May 2, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 7, 2006. The vehicle had 160,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Mississippi based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:windshield wiper/washer:switch/wiring, 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 BLAZER cohort independently describe similar visibility:windshield wiper/washer:switch/wiring 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 1998 CHEVROLET BLAZER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
1998 CHEVROLET BLAZER
Component
VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:SWITCH/WIRING
State
Mississippi
Mileage
160,000 mi

Complaint Description

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 1998 CHEVROLET BLAZER. WHILE DEPRESSING THE BRAKE PEDAL FROM APPROXIMATELY 2-5 MPH, THE VEHICLE FAILED TO IMMEDIATELY STOP. AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC REPLACED THE BRAKE SYSTEM, BUT THE FAILURE STILL REMAINED. IN ADDITION, THE WIPER BLADES WIRING MECHANISM DID NOT WORK EFFECTIVELY. THE CONTACT WAS DRIVING IN RAINY WEATHER CONDITIONS AND THE WIPERS WOULD NOT OPERATE. SHE HAD THE WIRING SPLICED AND WAS ABLE TO USE THE WIPERS. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 160,000. UPDATED 7/3/08 *CN UPDATED 07/03/08

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 668205
ODI Number 10226519
Date Filed May 2, 2008
Failure Date February 7, 2006
VIN 1GNDT13WXW2

Similar VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:SWITCH/WIRING Complaints for 1998 CHEVROLET BLAZER

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