2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO — Complaint #722808
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS:UNIT filed June 8, 2009
NHTSA complaint #722808 (ODI reference 10273072) concerns a 2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO and was filed on June 8, 2009. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 1, 2009. The vehicle had 118,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida 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 OLDSMOBILE ALERO 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 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. THREE MONTHS AGO, THE CONTACT NOTICED THAT THE TURN SIGNALS AND HAZARD LIGHTS WORKED INTERMITTENTLY. THE MANUFACTURER STATED THAT HER VIN WAS NOT INCLUDED IN NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER 03V327000 (EXTERIOR LIGHTING: HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS: SWITCH). THEY FURTHER STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS OLD. THE VEHICLE WILL BE TAKEN TO THE DEALER FOR REPAIR. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 118,000 AND CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 119,723.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 722808 |
| ODI Number | 10273072 |
| Date Filed | June 8, 2009 |
| Failure Date | April 1, 2009 |
| VIN | 1G3NF52E0YC |
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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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