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2008 PONTIAC TORRENT — Complaint #810828

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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:REAR WINDOW WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR filed August 30, 2010

NHTSA complaint #810828 (ODI reference 10352832) concerns a 2008 PONTIAC TORRENT and was filed on August 30, 2010. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 6, 2010. The vehicle had 42,000 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 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 PONTIAC TORRENT 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 2008 PONTIAC TORRENT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2008 PONTIAC TORRENT
Component
VISIBILITY:REAR WINDOW WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR
State
Michigan
Mileage
42,000 mi

Complaint Description

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 PONTIAC TORRENT. WHILE DRIVING 50 MPH, THERE WAS A BURNING INSULATION SMELL AND WHEN TURNING ON THE REAR WINDSHIELD WIPER THEY FAILED TO FUNCTION. THE CONTACT THEN DROVE ONTO THE EMERGENCY LANE AND CHECKED THE FUSE WHICH WAS BURNED OUT. THE FUSE WAS REPLACED AGAIN AND THE FAILURE OCCURRED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER WHERE THEY STATED THAT THE MOTOR BURNED OUT AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED . THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPAIRS AT THIS TIME. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 42000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 47000. UPDATED 01/27/11*JB

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 810828
ODI Number 10352832
Date Filed August 30, 2010
Failure Date June 6, 2010
VIN 2CKDL43F286

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