NHTSA Manufacturer Communications 10078735
Original text and source
Original text
THIS PRELIMINARY INFORMATION COMMUNICATION PROVIDES INFORMATION TO HELP THE DEALERSHIP TECHNICIANS PERFORM A PARASITIC DRAIN TEST FOR THE ONSTAR MODULE. WHEN PERFORMING BATTERY PARASITIC DRAIN TEST, THERE MAY BE SOME CONFUSION AS TO WHAT THE NORMAL POWER CONSUMPTION READING SHOULD BE FROM THE ONSTAR SYSTEM.
Source
- Source
- NHTSA Manufacturer Communications — Communication from a manufacturer to dealers (summary published by a government agency)
- Reporter type
- Manufacturer
- Source reference
- 10078735
- Country / market
- US
- Language
- en
- Document version
- Version 2 (2 held)
- Note on the source
- US federal government dataset of communications manufacturers sent to dealers. NHTSA publishes a summary of each communication, not its full text.
Dates
- Incident date
- Unknown
- Received by source
- 2016-08-17
- Added to the source's file
- 2016-08-17
- Issued / published
- 2016-04-19
- First observed
- 2026-10-05 02:21 UTC (initial bulk load)
- This version fetched
- 2026-10-05 03:49 UTC

