{"@context":{"@vocab":"https://schema.org/"},"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/nhtsa/complaints/check?make=POWERTRAIN","name":"POWERTRAIN","_source":{"data_provider":"AI Analytics","data_provider_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","primary_source":"https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/","generated_at":"2026-09-10T00:38:25.718Z"},"summary":{"total_complaints":10,"deaths":0,"injured":1,"fires":1},"top_components":[{"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:MECHANICAL","n":3},{"component_desc":"SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST","n":1},{"component_desc":"SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP","n":1},{"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:RECREATIONAL VEHICLE/TRAILER:LPG SYSTEMS:TANK VALVE/GAUGE","n":1},{"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL","n":1},{"component_desc":"ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE","n":1},{"component_desc":"ELECTRICAL SYSTEM","n":1},{"component_desc":"AIR BAGS","n":1}],"recent_complaints":[{"cmplid":"937211","date_received":"2012-09-01","make":"POWERTRAIN","model":"POWERTRAIN","model_year":1997,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:MECHANICAL","description":"TOOK MY 2005 PILOT IN FOR MAJOR SERVICE 100K . VEHICLE HAS BEEN MAINTAINED WITH REGULAR INTERVALS OF FLUID REPLACEMENT AND OIL CHANGES AT NON HONDA SHOPS BUT WITH CERTIFIED COMPATIBLE PRODUCTS FROM VALVOLINE. MILEAGE ON CAR IS 107,928. PICKED UP CAR WAS RUNNING GREAT. WITHIN 7 MILES FLASHING D LIGHT ENGINE WARNING LIGHT STAYS ON AND CAR FEELS LIKE ITS LOSING POWER AND WON'T SHIFT. DEALER SAYS ITS COINCIDENCE. NO SLOWING OF TRANSMISSION NO WARNING WHEN DEALER DID MAJOR SERVICE AND ALL POINT INSPECTION WITH HONDA DIAGNOSTIC COMPUTER. CONTACTED DEALER WAS TOLD CAR SHOULD BE DRIVABLE TO BRING IT IN. CAR STALLED OUT JERKED BACK AND RPMS SOARED ALMOST CAUSING ME TO GET REAR ENDED WHILE TRAVELING AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. DROVE CAR 20 MILES AN HOUR AND JERKED BACK AGAIN CAUSING ME TO BE STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF AN INTERSECTION. PULLED OVER TURNED CAR OFF AND BACK ON ONLY ENGINE SILHOUETTE STILL ON AND DROVE 20 MPH TO DEALERSHIP. CAR IN DEALERSHIP MILEAGE IS 107953 AND AM TOLD ITS A COMPLETE TRANSMISSION FAILURE ON A SEALED TRANSMISSION THAT DEALER COULDN'T DETECT THREE DAYS EARLIER. NO WARNING SYSTEM OR FAILED WARNING SYSTEM ON A VERY DANGEROUS MAJOR CAR FAILURE. I WAS ALSO TOLD THAT IT WAS AN EMISSIONS PROBLEM EVEN CAR HAS BEEN  THOUGH MY CAR PASSED SMOG IN MAY 2012 WITH ABOVE AVERAGE RATING. MY POINT IS WHY IS THERE NO WARNING OR DETECTION TO THIS POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING CAR FAILURE?????  *TR","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/937211"},{"cmplid":"828328","date_received":"2010-11-30","make":"POWERTRAIN","model":"POWERTRAIN","model_year":1997,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL","description":"STALLS IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC WHILE DRIVING. ALMOST KILLED ME AND MY KIDS TODAY. *TR","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/828328"},{"cmplid":"828330","date_received":"2010-11-30","make":"POWERTRAIN","model":"POWERTRAIN","model_year":1997,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:RECREATIONAL VEHICLE/TRAILER:LPG SYSTEMS:TANK VALVE/GAUGE","description":"STALLS IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC WHILE DRIVING. ALMOST KILLED ME AND MY KIDS TODAY. *TR","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/828330"},{"cmplid":"789333","date_received":"2010-05-24","make":"POWERTRAIN","model":"POWERTRAIN","model_year":1997,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:MECHANICAL","description":"ENGINE REVVS AND VEHICLE IS THRUSTED FORWARD AT TOP SPEED FROM DEAD START OR WHEN SLOWING DOWN. THIS IS THE SECOND ON THIS PROBLEM. BOTH TIMES LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE, AND ACCIDENT. *TR","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/789333"},{"cmplid":"627879","date_received":"2007-06-20","make":"POWERTRAIN","model":"POWERTRAIN","model_year":1993,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"AIR BAGS","description":"I WAS SIDE SWIPED ON THE LEFT SIDE AND THE AIR BAGS DID NOT OPEN.  *AK","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/627879"},{"cmplid":"627316","date_received":"2007-06-15","make":"POWERTRAIN","model":"POWERTRAIN","model_year":1993,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE","description":"VEHICLE ENGINE IDLES TOO HIGH WHEN VEHICLE IS MOVING (OK AFTER VEHICLE IS STOPPED FOR OVER 10 SECONDS).  THIS MAKES STOPPING VEHICLE VERY DIFFICULT.  HAVE TO THROW VEHICLE INTO NEUTRAL AND LET ENGINE RACE WHEN STOPPING.  BRAKING DISTANCE GREATLY INCREASED, HAD MANY CLOSE CALLS, AND A MINOR CRASH WITH DAMAGE.  DEALER ATTEMPTED TO CORRECT 3 TIMES AND BEEN TO 2 OTHER MECHANICS.  PROBLEM STILL PERSISTS.*AK","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/627316"},{"cmplid":"627317","date_received":"2007-06-15","make":"POWERTRAIN","model":"POWERTRAIN","model_year":1993,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST","description":"VEHICLE ENGINE IDLES TOO HIGH WHEN VEHICLE IS MOVING (OK AFTER VEHICLE IS STOPPED FOR OVER 10 SECONDS).  THIS MAKES STOPPING VEHICLE VERY DIFFICULT.  HAVE TO THROW VEHICLE INTO NEUTRAL AND LET ENGINE RACE WHEN STOPPING.  BRAKING DISTANCE GREATLY INCREASED, HAD MANY CLOSE CALLS, AND A MINOR CRASH WITH DAMAGE.  DEALER ATTEMPTED TO CORRECT 3 TIMES AND BEEN TO 2 OTHER MECHANICS.  PROBLEM STILL PERSISTS.*AK","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/627317"},{"cmplid":"551524","date_received":"2005-08-26","make":"POWERTRAIN","model":"POWERTRAIN","model_year":1993,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":1,"crash":0,"component_desc":"ELECTRICAL SYSTEM","description":"MY GMC SAFARI 1993 MODEL WAS PARKED IN THE SAME SPOT AS USUAL IN FRONT OF MY HOME AND HAD NOT BEEN DRIVEN SINCE THE EVENING BEFORE. WE WERE AWAKEN  BY SIRENS FROM A FIRE TRUCK AND THE VAN WAS ENGULFED IN FLAMES COMING FROM UNDER THE HOOD THE FIRE DEPARTMENT PUT THE FIRE OUT AND WAS UNABLE TO OPEN THE HOOD EVEN WITH AXES THEY TRIED FOR AN HOUR AND GAVE UP AND SAID A FIRE INSPECTOR WOULD BE OUT TO INVESTIGATE THE CAUSE TODAY. THE FIRE CAME FROM UNDER THE DRIVERS SIDE AND THE WHOLE DASHBOARD IS MELTED AWAY TO NOTHING AND THE STEERING WHEEL WE HAVE LOST EVERYTHING DUE TO THIS FIRE. THE WHOLE FRONT INTERIOR IS MELTED AWAY TOO. THE FIREMEN SMELLED SULFUR WHILE PUTTING IT OUT AND STILL SMELLED IT AFTER THE FIRE WAS OUT TOO. I NEED TO KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THIS I HAVE SENT GMC A REPORT ON THEIR WEBSITE ABOUT THIS AS A COMPLAINT AND SHOULD HEAR FROM THEM WITHIN 48 HOURS. PLEASE CONTACT ME IF I SHOULD DO ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT THIS. *JB","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/551524"},{"cmplid":"524072","date_received":"2005-03-02","make":"POWERTRAIN","model":"POWERTRAIN","model_year":1997,"deaths":0,"injured":1,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:MECHANICAL","description":"TRANSMISSION LOCKED UP AND THREW ME FROM THE VEHICLE GOING 50 MPH DOWNHILL!  I WAS IN HOSPITAL/ICU FROM SEPT 17TH, 2004 TO ~ MID OCTOBER.  LUCKY TO BE ALIVE.  VEHICLE WAS A 1995 GEO TRACKER.  COULD SOMEONE CONTACT ME?  I NEED HELP.*AK","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/524072"},{"cmplid":"500818","date_received":"2004-10-11","make":"POWERTRAIN","model":"POWERTRAIN","model_year":1996,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP","description":"ANTILOCK BRAKING SYSTEM FAILURE.  3 REAR END BUMP UPS. AT LOW SPEEDS (10 - 20 MPH) ON WET OR CHANGING ROAD CONDITIONS (RAILROAD TRACKS) THE VEHICLE WILL NOT STOP IN LESS THAN 15 - 20 FEET.  UNDER THESE CONDITIONS AT FASTER SPEEDS, BREAKS LOCK UP AND EMIT GRINDING NOISE.   ADVISED CHEVROLET DEALERSHIP AND HAD TRUCK CHECKED PRIOR TO ANY ACCIDENTS AND THEY STATE NOTHING WRONG.  ATTEMPTED AGAIN AT CHEVROLET DEALERSHIP (DIDN'T HAVE CHECKED AGAIN) AND TOLD THEM THE PROBLEM BUT THEY DIDN'T WANT TO LISTEN.  MY DEALERSHIP ENCOUNTERS ON THIS MATTER WAS IN MID 98 AND AGAIN IN LATE 98.  I NOW TRY NOT TO DRIVE THE VEHICLE DURING RAIN OR OTHER BAD WEATHER.   *NM","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/500818"}]}