2005 CADILLAC STS — Complaint #739890
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY:AXLE SHAFT:SEAL filed October 16, 2009
NHTSA complaint #739890 (ODI reference 10288642) concerns a 2005 CADILLAC STS and was filed on October 16, 2009. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 10, 2009. The vehicle had 62,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Nebraska based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:axle assembly:axle shaft:seal, 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 CADILLAC STS cohort independently describe similar power train:axle assembly:axle shaft:seal 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 CADILLAC STS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
DAUGHTER DRIVING ON CONCRETE HI-WAY AT 50 MPH., HEARS NOISE BY PASSENGER SIDE REAR TIRE AREA. REAR END LOCKS AS IF BRAKES WERE APPLIED BUT WERE NOT. CAR SLIDES OUT-OF-CONTROL . HER AND HER PASSENGERS ARE NOT INJURED. HAD TO SHIFT CAR FROM FORWARD TO REVERSE 2-3 TIMES, CAR MAKES CLUNK NOISE, THEN IT FREES ITSELF SHE DRIVES OUT OF DITCH. NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED THEY DRIVE AT LOWER SPEED CARS REAR END LOCKS AGAIN FOR 2-3 SECONDS THEN FREES ITSELF BUT MAKES GRINDING NOISES.TAKE TO GMAC SERVICE CENTER TOLD REAR DIFFERENTIAL FAILED. FOUND OUT ABOUT RECALL: NHTSA ID # 07V58900. CADILLAC REP. SAID OUR CARS VIN # IS NOT INVOLVED IN RECALL. FOUND RECALLED VIN #'S AND OUR CARS VIN # IS INSIDE THE RECALLED NUMBERS BRACKET. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 739890 |
| ODI Number | 10288642 |
| Date Filed | October 16, 2009 |
| Failure Date | October 10, 2009 |
| VIN | 1G6DC67A250 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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