2005 HUMMER H2 SUT — Complaint #720025
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:REAR WINDOW WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR filed May 14, 2009
NHTSA complaint #720025 (ODI reference 10268757) concerns a 2005 HUMMER H2 SUT and was filed on May 14, 2009. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 1, 2008. The vehicle had 72,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:rear window wiper/washer:motor, 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 HUMMER H2 SUT cohort independently describe similar visibility:rear window wiper/washer:motor 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 HUMMER H2 SUT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 HUMMER H2 SUT. WHILE DRIVING 20 MPH, THE CONTACT NOTICED WIPER FLUID RELEASING ON ITS OWN. HE TOOK THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALER AND THEY STATED THAT THE WIPER MOTOR CONTROL MODULE WAS RETAINING MOISTURE AND CAUSED THE MOTOR TO FAIL. THE DEALER ESTIMATED THE REPAIR COST AT $500 BECAUSE THE VIN WAS NOT INCLUDED IN NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER 08V456000 (VISIBILITY: WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER: MOTOR). THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 72,000 AND CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 76,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 720025 |
| ODI Number | 10268757 |
| Date Filed | May 14, 2009 |
| Failure Date | November 1, 2008 |
| VIN | 5GRGN22UX5H |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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