2000 PONTIAC GRAND AM — Complaint #528216
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS:UNIT filed March 28, 2005
NHTSA complaint #528216 (ODI reference 10116948) concerns a 2000 PONTIAC GRAND AM and was filed on March 28, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 28, 2005. The vehicle had 144,360 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio 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 PONTIAC GRAND AM 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 PONTIAC GRAND AM shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
RECALL CAMPAIGN 03V327000/HAZARD WARNING DEVICES. VEHICLE IS EXPERIENCING A PROBLEM WITH THE TURN SIGNALS WHICH OPERATED INTERMITTENTLY. OWNER CONTACTED THE MANUFACTURER, AND WAS INFORMED THAT VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL DUE TO VIN. *AK THE CUSTOMER HAD TO PAY FOR REPAIRS. *BF *NM
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 528216 |
| ODI Number | 10116948 |
| Date Filed | March 28, 2005 |
| Failure Date | March 28, 2005 |
| VIN | 1G2NE52T3YM |
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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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