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2002 CHRYSLER PT CRUISER — Complaint #625168

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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:FOG LIGHTS:SWITCH filed May 23, 2007

NHTSA complaint #625168 (ODI reference 10191584) concerns a 2002 CHRYSLER PT CRUISER and was filed on May 23, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2007. The report was geocoded to Washington based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:fog 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.

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 CHRYSLER PT CRUISER cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting:fog 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 2002 CHRYSLER PT CRUISER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2002 CHRYSLER PT CRUISER
Component
EXTERIOR LIGHTING:FOG LIGHTS:SWITCH
State
Washington

Complaint Description

TROUBLE WITH MULTIFUNCTION CONTROL SWITCH FOR PT CRUISER HEADLIGHTS. THE FOG LIGHTS ON THE PT CRUISER ILLUMINATED INTERMITTENTLY WITHOUT OPERATOR INTERFACE OR FAIL TO SHUT OFF WHEN MULTIFUNCTION SWITCH IS OPERATED. THIS CAUSED BATTERY TO FAIL. NO AUDIBLE INDICATION THAT LIGHTS REMAINED ON. *AK

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 625168
ODI Number 10191584
Date Filed May 23, 2007
Failure Date January 1, 2007

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.