2008 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX — Complaint #1423429
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING filed November 8, 2017
NHTSA complaint #1423429 (ODI reference 11044743) concerns a 2008 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX and was filed on November 8, 2017. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 8, 2017. The vehicle had 122,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Missouri based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting, 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 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting 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 2008 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I WAS DRIVING AT DARK HOURS WITH HEADLIGHTS ON AND LIGHTS JUST WENT OUT. TURNED ON BRIGHT LIGHTS AND THE LIGHTS WORKED. TURNED BACK TO DIM AND LIGHTS WORKED FOR ABOUT HALF A MILE.LIGHTS WENT OUT AGAIN TURNED ON BRIGHTS AND SAME THING AS BEFORE THE LIGHTS WORKED. I THOUGHT I SEEN SOMEWHERE A RECALL WAS ISSUED FOR THIS PROBLEM. I GUESS I DIDNT.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1423429 |
| ODI Number | 11044743 |
| Date Filed | November 8, 2017 |
| Failure Date | November 8, 2017 |
| VIN | 2G2WP552X81 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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