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2009 CHEVROLET HHR — Complaint #825939

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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER filed November 15, 2010

NHTSA complaint #825939 (ODI reference 10365889) concerns a 2009 CHEVROLET HHR and was filed on November 15, 2010. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 20, 2010. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, other, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.

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 HHR cohort independently describe similar fuel system, other 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 2009 CHEVROLET HHR shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2009 CHEVROLET HHR
Component
FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER
State
Ohio

Complaint Description

WE RECENTLY PURCHASED A 09 CHEVY HHR AND WITHIN THE FIRST 150 MILES WE GOT A CHECK ENGINE LIGHT, TOOK IT TO THE DEALER AND WAS TOLD THE FUEL WAS RUNNING LEAN. HE RESET THE COMPUTER AND TOLD ME TO PUT FUEL ADDITIVE IN THE TANK. I DID SO AND THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT IS STILL COMING ON AND THE ENGINE IS BEGINNING TO STALL AND LOSE POWER....WHAT ARE WE TO DO, CAR STILL HAS A FACTORY WARRANTY, BUT CAN'T GET HELP... *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 825939
ODI Number 10365889
Date Filed November 15, 2010
Failure Date October 20, 2010

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