2000 CHEVROLET BLAZER — Complaint #484715
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TURN SIGNAL:SWITCH filed July 14, 2004
NHTSA complaint #484715 (ODI reference 10081071) concerns a 2000 CHEVROLET BLAZER and was filed on July 14, 2004. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 23, 2004. The vehicle had 71,000 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:turn signal: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 BLAZER cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting:turn signal: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 2000 CHEVROLET BLAZER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
THE TURN SIGNAL IN THE VEHICLE BEGAN CLICKING EVEN WHEN THE SWITCH WAS IN THE NEUTRAL (OFF) POSITION SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, HOWEVER, THE TURN SIGNALS APPEARED TO WORK PROPERLY. A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, WHILE SITTING AT A LEFT TURN LIGHT WITH THE TURN SIGNAL ON, A WHITE STREAM OF SMOKE BEGAN COMING OUT OF THE STEERING COLUMN IN THE VICINITY OF THE TURN SIGNAL LEVEL. I TURNED OFF THE LEVEL, AND THE SMOKE STOPPED. NO CORRECTIVE ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN YET, BUT I AM AFRAID A FIRE MAY START IN THE VEHICLE FROM THIS. IT APPEARS THERE IS A SERVICE BULLETIN (# 01073) RELATED TO NHTSA ITEM # 636517 THAT MAY BE RELATED OR THE SAME, BUT THE DEALER SAYS NO RECALL IS OPEN AND WILL ONLY CHARGE TO REPLACE THE PART(S). THIS SEEMS LIKE A SAFETY/FIRE RELATED ISSUE AND I HAVE READ NUMEROUS CASES ONLINE WHERE OTHER OWNERS EXPERIENCE THE CONSTANT CLICKING NOISE FROM THE TURN SIGNAL TOO.*AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 484715 |
| ODI Number | 10081071 |
| Date Filed | July 14, 2004 |
| Failure Date | June 23, 2004 |
| VIN | 1GNCT18W2YK |
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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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