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2003 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER — Complaint #1319349

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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS:SWITCH filed September 21, 2016

NHTSA complaint #1319349 (ODI reference 10908382) concerns a 2003 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER and was filed on September 21, 2016. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 2, 2015. The vehicle had 120,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:headlights:switch, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting:headlights:switch failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2003 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2003 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER
Component
EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS:SWITCH
State
Michigan
Mileage
120,000 mi

Complaint Description

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2003 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER. WHILE DRIVING VARIOUS SPEEDS, THE HEADLIGHTS SUDDENLY SHUT OFF AND LATER TURNED BACK ON. THE HEADLIGHTS ON/OFF SWITCH WAS REPLACED, BUT THE FAILURE CONTINUED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER, BUT THE FAILURE COULD NOT BE DUPLICATED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 120,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1319349
ODI Number 10908382
Date Filed September 21, 2016
Failure Date September 2, 2015
VIN 1GNET16P236

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.