2000 CHEVROLET CORVETTE — Complaint #873406
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI-THEFT DEVICE filed August 12, 2011
NHTSA complaint #873406 (ODI reference 10419151) concerns a 2000 CHEVROLET CORVETTE and was filed on August 12, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 11, 2011. The vehicle had 38,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New Hampshire based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:column locking:anti-theft device, 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 CHEVROLET CORVETTE cohort independently describe similar steering:column locking:anti-theft device 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 2000 CHEVROLET CORVETTE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 CHEVROLET CORVETTE. WHILE PARKED THE STEERING WHEEL SEIZED AND THE CONTACT WAS UNABLE TO MANEUVER THE STEERING WHEEL. THE VEHICLE WAS INCLUDED IN THE RECALL UNDER NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 04V060000 (STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI-THEFT DEVICE) AND WAS REPAIRED BEFORE THE FAILURE. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE AND ADVISED THAT THE REPAIRS WOULD NOT BE COVERED BECAUSE THE RECALL REPAIRS HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN PERFORMED. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO THE DEALER FOR REPAIRS. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE 38,000. ..UPDATED 09/29/11 *BF THE CONSUMER STATED THE STEERING COLUMN PROBLEM HAD TO BE REPAIRED TWICE. UPDATED 10/11/11
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 873406 |
| ODI Number | 10419151 |
| Date Filed | August 12, 2011 |
| Failure Date | August 11, 2011 |
| VIN | 1G1YY22G4Y5 |
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ON 6/17/10, MY WIFE ATTEMPTED TO DRIVE OUR 2000 CHEVY CORVETTE MILEAGE 46,494, WHEN SERVICE SECURITY COLUMN CAME ON AND PULL KEY WAIT FOR 10 SECONDS WAS DISPLAYED. SEVERAL ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO COMPLY
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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