2006 PONTIAC G6 — Complaint #722494
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL:AUTOMATIC (ASC) filed June 3, 2009
NHTSA complaint #722494 (ODI reference 10272820) concerns a 2006 PONTIAC G6 and was filed on June 3, 2009. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 22, 2009. The vehicle had 48,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to 00 based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electronic stability control:automatic (asc), 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 G6 cohort independently describe similar electronic stability control:automatic (asc) 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 2006 PONTIAC G6 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I BOUGHT A PONTIAC 2006 G6 GT 3.5 LITER ENGINE HAS A LOTS OF POWER FOR A V6, MILEAGE WAS 47,000 KILO. FIRST WEEK HAD TO REPLACE ONE FRONT STRUT WAS LEAKING, ALSO FRONT TOP PLATE BEARING AND STEERING KIT WAS KNOCKING . TRACTION CONTROL VERY NOISY. NOW MILEAGE WAS ABOUT 52,000 K . STILL HAVE PROBLEM WITH THE MANUAL TAP SHIFTING WONT SHIFT DOWN TO 4TH GEAR , SEEN THE DEALER THREE TIME NOW DOESN'T HAVE THE PROBLEM EVERY THING WAS SHIFTING GOOD. SEEN THE DEALER AGAIN FOR THE SAME PROBLEM YESTERDAY THANK GOD IT DID IT ONCE WHILE THE MECHANIC DID A TEST DRIVE WAS WITH HIM FOR THE TEST NOW BEEN OK FOR THREE DAYS. NOW 56,123 K THEY SAID MAYBE WONT COVER ON WARRANTY BECAUSE ABUSE , IF THEY SEE SIGN OF COFFEE OR SOFT DRINK SPILLS. WHY THE CAR HAS COFFEE CUP HOLDER RIGHT THERE OR NEAR THE SHIFTER COLUMN THE ELECTRONIC COMPONENT HIS RIGHT THERE? CRAZY DON'T YOU THINK. HOPE IT WITH GET BETTER. NOT THE BEST CAR FOR ME UP TO NOW. WITH THAT MILEAGE SHOULD BE LIKE A NEW CAR. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 722494 |
| ODI Number | 10272820 |
| Date Filed | June 3, 2009 |
| Failure Date | January 22, 2009 |
| VIN | 1G2ZH558664 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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