2004 CHEVROLET IMPALA — Complaint #653343
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS:HIGH/LOW BEAM DIMMER SWITCH filed January 13, 2008
NHTSA complaint #653343 (ODI reference 10214665) concerns a 2004 CHEVROLET IMPALA and was filed on January 13, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 5, 2008. The vehicle had 185,263 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to 00 based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:headlights:high/low beam dimmer 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 IMPALA cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting:headlights:high/low beam dimmer 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 2004 CHEVROLET IMPALA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
MULTIFUNCTION SWITCH ON STEERING COLUM FAILED , AS A RESULT I HAVE NO HIGHBEAMS , IF I ATTEMPT TO PUT THEM ON ALL LIGHTS GO OUT , THIS IS A VERY EXPENSIVE PROBLEM THAT I THINK GENERAL MOTORS SHOULD COME GOOD FOR. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 653343 |
| ODI Number | 10214665 |
| Date Filed | January 13, 2008 |
| Failure Date | January 5, 2008 |
| VIN | 2G1WF52E649 |
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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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