2002 PONTIAC GRAND AM — Complaint #561666
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS filed November 7, 2005
NHTSA complaint #561666 (ODI reference 10141940) concerns a 2002 PONTIAC GRAND AM and was filed on November 7, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 1, 2005. The vehicle had 48,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:hazard flashing warning lights, 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 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 2002 PONTIAC GRAND AM shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TURN SIGNALS AND FLASHERS DO NOT WORK INTERMITTENTLY. THEY DON'T WORK MORE OFTEN THEN THEY DO. THE DEALERSHIP COULD NOT DUPLICATE (DON'T THINK THEY REALLY TRIED) I AM CONCERNED THAT WHEN I REALLY NEED THE HAZARD FLASHERS THEY WONT WORK, IT IS DANGEROUS TO NOT USE BLINKERS AND HAND SIGNALS ARE HARDER TO SEE. *JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 561666 |
| ODI Number | 10141940 |
| Date Filed | November 7, 2005 |
| Failure Date | August 1, 2005 |
| VIN | 1G2NE52F12C |
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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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