2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO — Complaint #456177
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS:UNIT filed February 23, 2004
NHTSA complaint #456177 (ODI reference 10059581) concerns a 2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO and was filed on February 23, 2004. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 13, 2004. The vehicle had 47,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:hazard flashing warning lights:unit, 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 OLDSMOBILE ALERO cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting:hazard flashing warning lights:unit 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 2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WHILE DRIVING AT ANY SPEED HAZARD AND SIGNAL LIGHTS DID NOT WORK PROPERLY. THE HAZARD AND SIGNAL LIGHTS MALFUNCTIONED OVER THIRTY TIMES. A RECALL WAS ISSUED ON THIS MAKE/MODEL AND YEAR, BUT CONSUMER'S VEHICLE WAS NOT PART OF RECALL DUE TO VIN. *AK THIS WAS AN INTERMITTENT PROBLEM. THE DEALER WAS UNABLE TO REMEDY THE PROBLEM. THE PROBLEM WOULD ALSO OCCUR IN THE RAIN MORE THAN ONCE AND WHILE IN TRAFFIC. *SC
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 456177 |
| ODI Number | 10059581 |
| Date Filed | February 23, 2004 |
| Failure Date | January 13, 2004 |
| VIN | 1G3NL52T1YC |
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I HAVE A 2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO AND THE TURNING SIGNAL LIGHT AND THE HAZARDOUS LIGHT DOES NOT WORK IT MAKES A BUZZING SOUND WHEN I TRY TO MAKE A TURN. WHILE I WAS HOME FROM WORK ONE DAY AND I PUT ON MY
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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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