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This is an open preview: every record can be read without an account. The details of the plans are in preparation.

Real records, with their sources.

The same symptom has happened somewhere.

Find cases of the same symptom, and what was done about it, in defect and repair records on American vehicles. Each can be checked against the original text and its source.

Choose from the list with pictures

Enter a symptom and its possible causes are drawn

Press a cause for what the technical documents say to check and repair, and how the same work ended in the records, in one answer. The passages behind it open when wanted.

An example of a search

GMC Yukon XL 2000–2006

Symptom Stalls or shuts off74 records match

Candidate causes (the 5 with most records)

745Reduced Engine Power from throttle body connector crimp, broken wire or grounds4Crankshaft position sensor may work intermittently or fail (8.1L V8) - recall 07V-5214Fuel Pump3Fuel Pump Wiring2Out of fuel with the gauge reading above empty, cranks but no start, stall (replace the fuel sensor, not the sender module)

Live data. The size of a node and its number are records, not likelihoods. Solid: the documents say what to do; dashed: only records name it.

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Vehicles
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Records
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Statements with a quoted source
2026-10-05
Data as of

Everything written here stands on a source.

FaultCrate does not fill gaps with guesses. It shows only what the records and documents of public agencies and the manufacturer say, with the original text and its source.

  • A quotation for every statement

    Each statement of a known issue, and each point taken from a manufacturer's document, carries a quotation from the text it comes from. A statement whose quotation is not found in that text is not published.

  • Open the original

    Every record can be opened down to its original text and its source.

  • Nothing added

    No cause, work or figure is supplied that the original does not state. What is not known stays “not stated”.

  • A complaint stays a complaint

    An owner's complaint is an unverified report, not a confirmed failure. It is shown apart from recalls and the manufacturer's documents, by kind.

What each source can be relied on for, and what to watch for →

What you can do

FaultCrate is a search service of defect and repair records for shops that work on American vehicles. It follows records published by public agencies in the United States and Canada, and GM's technical documents, from a symptom to its possible causes and what to do, with the original text and its source. Judging the cause and deciding the repair remain the shop's.

  • From a symptom to its possible causes, drawn

    Enter a symptom, a warning display or a trouble code, and the possible causes are drawn by vehicle system.

  • Down to the check and the repair

    Pick a cause for what the technical documents say to check and repair, the part numbers, and how the same work ended in the records.

  • What each model year reports

    Counts of records by symptom and by system, model year by model year. A count is a number of records, not a failure rate.

  • Recent movement, and related vehicles

    Topics that have grown lately, and the same search on vehicles of the same platform.

How it works

  1. 1

    Choose a vehicle

    Search by part of a name, by brand or by model year.

  2. 2

    Enter the symptom

    Type a symptom, a warning display or a trouble code, or pick one of the common symptoms. Narrow by model year and the like if you wish.

  3. 3

    Pick a cause, read what to do, check the original

    Read the check and the repair, and open the quoted passages or the records behind them when you want to.

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