2000 PONTIAC GRAND AM — Complaint #599655
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TURN SIGNAL:FLASHER UNIT filed October 16, 2006
NHTSA complaint #599655 (ODI reference 10170897) concerns a 2000 PONTIAC GRAND AM and was filed on October 16, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 4, 2006. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:turn signal:flasher 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:turn signal:flasher 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
DT*: THE CONTACT STATED WHILE TRAVELING 55 MPH, THERE WAS A CLICKING NOISE COMING FROM THE DASHBOARD AND THE LIGHTS FAILED TO ILLUMINATE ON THE DASHBOARD OR THE EXTERIOR OF THE VEHICLE. THE SERVICE DEALER REPLACED THE EXTERIOR LIGHTING: FLASHING WARNING LIGHT UNIT. AFTER A MONTH, THE FAILURE OCCURRED AGAIN. THE TURN SIGNALS FAILED AS WELL, BOTH ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL AND THE EXTERIOR OF THE VEHICLE. THE SERVICE DEALER AND MANUFACTURER WERE NOT CONTACTED.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 599655 |
| ODI Number | 10170897 |
| Date Filed | October 16, 2006 |
| Failure Date | September 4, 2006 |
| VIN | 1G2NV52E0YM |
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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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