2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO — Complaint #675866
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS filed June 27, 2008
NHTSA complaint #675866 (ODI reference 10232528) concerns a 2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO and was filed on June 27, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 7, 2008. The vehicle had 63,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Minnesota 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 OLDSMOBILE ALERO 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 OLDSMOBILE ALERO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO. WHILE MAKING A TURN AT AN UNKNOWN SPEED, THE BLINKER LIGHT STOPPED WORKING. THE CONTACT MUST TAP THE INSTRUMENT PANEL CLUSTER IN ORDER FOR IT TO WORK AGAIN. EVERYTIME HE MAKES A TURN, THE CONTACT KNOWS TO TAP ON THE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER IN ORDER FOR IT TO FUNCTION PROPERLY. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE TO A MECHANIC AND THEY STATED THAT THERE MAY BE A RECALL RELATED TO THE FAILURE. HE DISCOVERED NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER 03V327000 (EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS:SWITCH) ON SAFERCAR.GOV; HOWEVER, THE MANUFACTURER STATED THAT THE VIN WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 63,000 AND CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 80,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 675866 |
| ODI Number | 10232528 |
| Date Filed | June 27, 2008 |
| Failure Date | January 7, 2008 |
| VIN | 1G3NF12E4YC |
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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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