# Service bulletin PIP3535C

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10126983
- Published by NHTSA: 2018\-01\-16
- Manufacturer's number: PIP3535C
- Manufacturer's date: 2017\-12\-19
- NHTSA component: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING

## NHTSA's summary

This Preliminary Information communication informs dealer technicians of a potential whining noise that can occur after servicing the water pump, water pump chain or cylinder head without use of the water pump sprocket holding tool. Dealers are advised this condition is the result of a water pump chain tensioner ratcheting out. The dealer is directed to follow service information to reset the water pump chain tensioner to correct.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2017/MC-10126983-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2017/MC-10126983-0001.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Engine

## Vehicles listed

- 2011 to 2016 BUICK LACROSSE
- 2011 to 2017 BUICK REGAL
- 2012 to 2017 BUICK VERANO
- 2010 to 2017 CHEVROLET CAPTIVA
- 2002 to 2005 CHEVROLET CAVALIER
- 2005 to 2010 CHEVROLET COBALT
- 2010 to 2017 CHEVROLET EQUINOX
- 2006 to 2010 CHEVROLET HHR
- 2014 CHEVROLET IMPALA
- 2004 to 2014 CHEVROLET MALIBU
- 2010 to 2017 GMC TERRAIN
- 2002 to 2004 OLDSMOBILE ALERO
- 2007 to 2010 PONTIAC G5
- 2006 to 2010 PONTIAC G6
- 2002 to 2005 PONTIAC GRAND AM
- 2005 to 2006 PONTIAC PURSUIT
- 2006 to 2010 PONTIAC SOLSTICE
- 2002 to 2005 PONTIAC SUNFIRE
- 2007 to 2009 SAAB 9\-3
- 2007 to 2009 SATURN AURA
- 2003 to 2007 SATURN ION
- 2003 to 2005 SATURN L300
- 2001 to 2002 SATURN LW200
- 2003 SATURN LW200
- 2004 to 2005 SATURN LW200
- 2007 to 2010 SATURN SKY
- 2002 to 2010 SATURN VUE

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