2000 CHEVROLET IMPALA — Complaint #656870
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS filed February 8, 2008
NHTSA complaint #656870 (ODI reference 10217508) concerns a 2000 CHEVROLET IMPALA and was filed on February 8, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 1, 2006. The vehicle had 126,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio 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 CHEVROLET IMPALA 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 2000 CHEVROLET IMPALA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
VEHICLES TURN SIGNALS STOP WORKING INTERMITTENTLY AND SOMETIMES WILL NOT ALLOW THE HAZARD LIGHTS TO WORK. THIS POSES A SERIOUS SAFETY RISK - I WAS STOPPED IN A DARK UNLIT AREA WHEN MY VEHICLE BROKE DOWN AND VEHICLES WERE UNABLE TO SEE MY CAR OR MYSELF. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 656870 |
| ODI Number | 10217508 |
| Date Filed | February 8, 2008 |
| Failure Date | November 1, 2006 |
| VIN | 2G1WF55K2Y9 |
Similar EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS Complaints for 2000 CHEVROLET IMPALA
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 CHEVROLET IMPALA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE TURN SIGNAL LIGHTS, HAZARD LIGHTS, AND HEADLIGHTS SUDDENLY FAILED TO ACTIVATE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE
DT*: THE CONTACT STATED THE VEHICLE'S TURN SIGNAL INTERMITTENTLY DID NOT WORK WHILE TRYING TO SIGNAL IN ANY DIRECTION. ALSO THE HAZARD LIGHTS FAILED TO ILLUMINATE, WHEN THE HAZARD LIGHTS BUTTON WAS D
CONSUMER STATES HAZARD INDICATOR WORKS INTERMITTENTLY DURING USAGE. *AK
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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