2000 CHEVROLET MALIBU — Complaint #743184
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS:SWITCH filed November 9, 2009
NHTSA complaint #743184 (ODI reference 10291451) concerns a 2000 CHEVROLET MALIBU and was filed on November 9, 2009. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 1, 2009. The vehicle had 120,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Kansas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:hazard flashing warning lights: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 MALIBU cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting:hazard flashing warning lights: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 2000 CHEVROLET MALIBU shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 CHEVROLET MALIBU. THE FRONT EXTERIOR LIGHTS WOULD OPERATE INTERMITTENTLY. ALTHOUGH RECALL CAMPAIGN ID NUMBERS:03V327000 AND 09E012000 (EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS:SWITCH) REFERENCE THE FAILURE, HER VIN WAS NOT INCLUDED IN EITHER RECALL. ALSO SHE COULD SMELL AN ELECTRICAL BURNING ODOR. NO REPAIRS HAD BEEN MADE. THE CURRENT AND FAILURE MILEAGES WERE UNDER 120,000. UPDATED 02/17/10 *BF THE CONSUMER STATED THE TURN SIGNALS WORKED INTERMITTENTLY. THE SIGNALS FAILED TWICE WITHIN THE LAST 2 MONTHS. IF THE CONSUMER TURNED ON THE HAZARD LIGHTS, THE TURN SIGNALS WOULD THEN WORK. UPDATED 02/17/10.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 743184 |
| ODI Number | 10291451 |
| Date Filed | November 9, 2009 |
| Failure Date | November 1, 2009 |
| VIN | 1G1ND52JXY6 |
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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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