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2002 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX — Complaint #636601

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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS:UNIT filed August 30, 2007

NHTSA complaint #636601 (ODI reference 10201227) concerns a 2002 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX and was filed on August 30, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 30, 2007. The vehicle had 73,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Alabama 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 PRIX 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 2002 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2002 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX
Component
EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS:UNIT
State
Alabama
Mileage
73,000 mi

Complaint Description

BRAKE LIGHTS NOT WORKING AND WAS ALMOST REAR ENDED. HAZARD SWITCH IS STUCK. AFTER CHECKING ONLINE THIS APPEARS TO BE A VERY COMMON PROBLEM RELATED TO THE MULTI-FUNCTION SWITCH. IT APPEARS THAT GM IS WAITING FOR A FEW FATALITIES TO OCCUR BEFORE TAKING ANY ACTION!!

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 636601
ODI Number 10201227
Date Filed August 30, 2007
Failure Date August 30, 2007
VIN 1G2WP52K52F

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