1999 HONDA PASSPORT — Complaint #938957
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:REAR:SPRINGS:COIL SPRINGS filed September 11, 2012
NHTSA complaint #938957 (ODI reference 10475099) concerns a 1999 HONDA PASSPORT and was filed on September 11, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 4, 2012. The vehicle had 127,000 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 suspension:rear:springs:coil springs, 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 HONDA PASSPORT cohort independently describe similar suspension:rear:springs:coil springs 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 1999 HONDA PASSPORT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 1999 HONDA PASSPORT. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC FOR AN OIL CHANGE WHO NOTIFIED HIM THAT THE REAR COIL SPRINGS WERE FAULTY. THE COIL SPRING ON THE REAR PASSENGER SIDE BROKE OFF THE FRAME AND WAS VISIBLE FROM THE INSIDE OF THE VEHICLE. ALSO, THE ENTIRE FRAME WAS RUSTED OUT AND WAS DEEMED UNSAFE TO DRIVE. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED AND REFERRED THE CONTACT TO NHTSA TO FILE A COMPLAINT AND OFFERED NO OTHER ASSISTANCE. THE FAILURE AND CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 127,000. UPDATED 10/15/12 *CN UPDATED 10/24/2012 *JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 938957 |
| ODI Number | 10475099 |
| Date Filed | September 11, 2012 |
| Failure Date | August 4, 2012 |
| VIN | 4S6CM58W1X4 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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