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2000 Am General Hummer Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Apr 8, 2006
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
0
Reports on file since Mar 5, 2004

What this page shows

Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 2000 Am General Hummer. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

Showing 1–2 of 2

Transmission
Filed Apr 8, 2006
Crash reported3 injuries reported

UNINTENDED REARWARD MOVEMENT OF 2000 M.Y. HUMVEE H-1 WHILE IDLING, WITH TRANSMISSION SELECTOR MID-WAY BETWEEN PARK AND REVERSE POSITIONS. VEHICLE HAD REMAINED STATIONARY FOR SEVERAL MINUTES BEFORE TRANSMISSION INTERNALLY SHIFTED INTO REVERSE, CAUSING VEHICLE TO MOVE REARWARD AT INCREASING SPEEDS, STRIKING A SECURITY FENCE AT 7- TO 10 MPH; THE FENCE & GATE TOPPLED ONTO SIDEWALK, STRIKING 3 PEDESTRIANS WALKING ALONG THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE FENCE. OUR ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION TEAM RECREATED EVENT SEQUENCE MULTIPLE TIMES -- WITH DELAY BEFORE MOVEMENT RANGING FROM SECONDS TO MINUTES. TRANSMISSION SHIFT MECHANISM OR INTERNAL VALVE BODY CONTROLS EVIDENTLY MIS-ADJUSTED. *NM

NHTSA ID
10154882
Incident
Feb 12, 2006
Mileage
17,089 mi
Steering
Filed Mar 5, 2004

BARELY AVOIDED ACCIDENT DUE TO A KNOWN STEERING DEFECT THAT THE MANUFACTURER WILL NOT REPAIR. THEY CLAIM MY FAULTY STEERING CONDITION IS "ACCEPTABLE". *JB

NHTSA ID
10060526
Incident
Mar 2, 2004

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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