2007 GMC ACADIA — Complaint #1382656
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS:SWITCH filed June 5, 2017
NHTSA complaint #1382656 (ODI reference 10993303) concerns a 2007 GMC ACADIA and was filed on June 5, 2017. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 15, 2016. The vehicle had 75,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to South Carolina 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 GMC ACADIA 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 2007 GMC ACADIA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 GMC ACADIA. WHILE DRIVING VARIOUS SPEEDS, THE TRANSMISSION STALLED WITHOUT WARNING. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO A DEALER OR DIAGNOSED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. ALSO, WHILE DRIVING, THE HEADLIGHT SWITCH BECAME INOPERABLE. AS A RESULT, THE CONTACT WAS UNAWARE OF WHEN THE HEADLIGHTS WERE ON OR OFF. THERE WERE NO WARNING INDICATORS ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO A DEALER OR DIAGNOSED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 75,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1382656 |
| ODI Number | 10993303 |
| Date Filed | June 5, 2017 |
| Failure Date | September 15, 2016 |
| VIN | 1GKER13777J |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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