2000 CHEVROLET BLAZER — Complaint #545081
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS:SWITCH filed July 20, 2005
NHTSA complaint #545081 (ODI reference 10129471) concerns a 2000 CHEVROLET BLAZER and was filed on July 20, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 12, 2002. The vehicle had 80,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:hazard flashing warning lights: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:hazard flashing warning lights: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
DT: THREE YEARS AGO THE PROBLEM BEGAN. THE OWNER PULLED OVER TO THE SIDE OF THE STREET AND WHEN THE HAZARD LIGHTS WERE TURNED OFF THEN BRAKES WENT OFF AS WELL AND WOULD NOT COME BACK ON. THE MAIN TAIL LIGHTS AND BRAKE LIGHTS DID NOT WORK ANYMORE. THERE WAS A RECALL AND THE OWNER DID NOT RECEIVE THE RECALL NOTICE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER FOR SERVICE AND THE HAZARD LIGHT SWITCH WAS REPLACED. THE NEXT TIME THE HAZARD LIGHTS WERE USED, THE BRAKE LIGHTS STOPPED WORKING AGAIN. THIS HAPPENED ABOUT TEN MONTHS AFTER THE FIRST FAILURE. THEN THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN BACK TO THE DEALER, THEY WERE WILLING TO REPAIR THE HAZARD LIGHTS AT A COST OF $500. THERE SEEMED TO BE NO INDICATION FROM THE DEALERSHIP AS TO WHY THESE HAZARDS LIGHTS KEPT FAILING. THE DEALERSHIP HAS BEEN CONTACTED BY THE OWNER AT LEAST 7 TIMES IN LAST MONTH AND A HALF. THE OWNER ATTEMPTED TO WORK IT OUT WITH GM 10 TIMES IN THE LAST MONTH AND A HALF. *AK *SC
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 545081 |
| ODI Number | 10129471 |
| Date Filed | July 20, 2005 |
| Failure Date | June 12, 2002 |
| VIN | 1GNDT13W3Y2 |
Similar EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS:SWITCH Complaints for 2000 CHEVROLET BLAZER
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 CHEVROLET BLAZER. THE CONTACT STATED THE VEHICLE WAS INCLUDED IN THE RECALL UNDER NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 01V364000 (EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS:SWIT
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 CHEVROLET BLAZER. WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN IN FOR REGULAR MAINTENANCE, THE REPAIR SHOP STATED THAT THE BRAKE AND HAZARD LIGHTS WERE INOPERATIVE. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEH
ON OUR 2000 CHEVY BLAZER 4WD OUR BRAKE LIGHT DO NOT WORK AND NEITHER DOES THE HAZARD LIGHTS. I HAVE REPLACE THE BULBS BUT STILL THIS DOES NOT FIX THE PROBLEM. I RECENTLY FOUND THIS WEBSITE AND FOUND
THE HAZARD/BLINKER SWITCH IS BEGINNING TO SHORT OUT ON MY VEHICLE A 2000 CHEVY BLAZER VIN [XXX]. I RESEARCHED AND FOUND A RECALL FOR THIS PROBLEM: NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER : 01V364000. HOWEVER AFTER
CONSUMER RECEIVED SEVEN RECALL NOTICES REGARDING THE HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHT SWITCH, THE RECALL WAS RESOLVED AND THE CONSUMER WAS HAVING A HARD TIME TRYING TO GET THE RECALL CLOSED. *PH *JB
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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