2000 CHEVROLET CORVETTE — Complaint #852127
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TURN SIGNAL:FLASHER UNIT filed April 18, 2011
NHTSA complaint #852127 (ODI reference 10396692) concerns a 2000 CHEVROLET CORVETTE and was filed on April 18, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 19, 2011. The vehicle had 82,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:turn signal:flasher 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 CHEVROLET CORVETTE cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting:turn signal:flasher 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 CHEVROLET CORVETTE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 CHEVROLET CORVETTE. THE CONTACT STATED UNLESS THE TURN SIGNALS ARE BEING USED, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR AN OPERATOR TO KNOW WHEN THEY ARE OPERABLE. THE INTERMITTENT FAILURE OF THE TURN SIGNALS AND HAZARDS HAS BEEN OCCURRING FOR A FEW YEARS. THE FREQUENCY OF THE FAILURES HAS INCREASED AND THE FAILURE DURATION HAS LENGTHENED . INITIALLY, THE FAILURE LASTED FOR ONLY A FEW SECONDS. THE SOLUTION THE CONTACT DISCOVERED WAS TO PUNCH THE HAZARD LIGHTS BUTTON A COUPLE OF TIMES AND THIS WOULD SOMEHOW CAUSE THE TURN SIGNALS TO START OPERATING. THE PROBLEM WAS DUE TO AGE AND WEAR AS WELL AS BAD PARTS. THE HEADLIGHTS, WINDOW MOTORS AND DRIVER'S SEAT MOTOR HAVE ALL BEEN REPLACED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 82,500. UPDATED 5/24/11 *CN UPDATED 06/13/11
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 852127 |
| ODI Number | 10396692 |
| Date Filed | April 18, 2011 |
| Failure Date | March 19, 2011 |
| VIN | 1G1YY32G5Y5 |
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TURN SIGNALS AND HAZARD LIGHTS DO NOT WORK ALL THE TIME WHEN HOT THEY DO NOT WORK AT ALL. *JB
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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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