NHTSA complaint: 2002 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN — SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:TORSION BAR
type: Event
additional type: https://schema.org/AccidentReport
start date: 2003-08-11
description: THE PASSENGER SIDE "SWAY BAR", "STABILIZER BAR", OR "TORSION BAR" (UNSURE OF TRUE NAME) CAME UNDONE WHILE MY WIFE, FOUR KIDS, AND MY MOTHER WERE DRIVING IN THE VEHICLE. I KNOW SEVERAL MECHANICS AND NONE HAD EVER HEARD OF THIS HAPPENING TO SUCH A NEW VEHICLE. THE DEALERSHIP FIXED THE VEHICLE WITH NO PROBLEM. THEY HAD NEVER HEARD OF THIS SORT OF THING HAPPENING EITHER. I BOUGHT THE VEHICLE USED FROM THE SAME DEALERSHIP AND THEY STATED THE PREVIOUS OWNER "MUST HAVE LOWERED THE FRONT END." I HAVE PARKED NEXT TO OTHER SUBURBANS AND MINE WAS EQUAL IN HEIGTH TO THE OTHER VEHICLES. I FEEL THIS IS JUST AN EXCUSE TO WHY THERE WAS SUCH A FAILURE IN THE SUSPENSION OF THE VEHICLE. LUCKILY MY WIFE WAS ONLY TRAVELLING AT APPROXIMATELY FIVE MILES AN HOUR WHEN THE THING FELL APART. I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED AT HIGHWAY SPEED. PRIOR TO PURCHASING THE VEHICLE I SPOKE TO THE PREVIOUS OWNER. THE VEHICLE WAS USED BY HIS WIFE AND WAS TRADED BECAUSE SHE WANTED SOMETHING NEWER. I ASKED IF ANYTHING HAD BEEN DONE TO THE VEHICLE HE REPLIED "I DIDN'T EVEN OWN IT FOR A FULL YEAR" AND THAT NOTHING WAS DONE TO THE VEHICLE. I FELT THE NEED TO REPORT THIS BECAUSE I FEEL I MAY HAVE COME VERY CLOSE TO LOOSING MY FAMILY, AND IF I REPORT IT IT COULD BE RESEARCHED TO INSURE THAT THIS TYPE OF THING DOESN'T HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE.*AK
organizer: General Motors, LLC
publisher: AI Analytics
license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
source: https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/
source organization: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — Office of Defects Investigation

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property ID: NHTSA Complaint ID
value: 425179

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