Consumer Complaint Detail

SUZUKI / VITARA / 1999

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NHTSA Complaint Number: 000145902 Incident Date: Feb, 16 2000
Consumer's City: Consumer's State: NY
Vehicle Transmission Type: MAN Manufacturers Name: Suzuki Motor USA, LLC
Model Name: VITARA Model Year: 1999
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Power train:manual transmission
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: 2S3TA52C8X6 Date added to File: May, 25 2021
Date Complaint Received: May, 07 2001 Complaint Type: EVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Feb, 16 2000
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: No
Number of Cylinders: 0 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: Transmission does not shift into gear. dealer has attempted to repair vehicle.*ak consumer states transmission has failed to work properly since purchase date, while traveling on highway transmission would not go into 5th gear, making it impossible to merge into traffic, consumer was informed by dealer that they would replace the transmission but it would take three weeks for the transmission to come in and one week to replace, when consumer picked up vehicle he was told that a reciept was unavailable and one year later when he obtained a reciept stating that transmission was rebuilt and not replaced, consumer states between 3-23-2000 and 3-16-2001 it becaome diffucult to down shift into 3rd gearand impossible to go into reverse.*jb