2008 SATURN OUTLOOK — Complaint #868431
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS:CONCEALMENT DEVICES filed July 20, 2011
NHTSA complaint #868431 (ODI reference 10413749) concerns a 2008 SATURN OUTLOOK and was filed on July 20, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 16, 2011. The vehicle had 50,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to 00 based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:headlights:concealment devices, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 SATURN OUTLOOK cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting:headlights:concealment devices 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 2008 SATURN OUTLOOK shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2008 SATURN OUTLOOK. REPLACED BOTH FRONT HEADLIGHTS IN THE PAST TWO MONTHS. HEADLIGHTS BURNED OUT AGAIN. HEADLIGHT WIRING HAS MELTED - HAVE TO REPLACE WIRING AND WIRING HARNESS. THIS SHOULD BE A RECALL - IT'S NOT DUE TO WEAR AND TEAR OF VEHICLE. IS POOR EQUIPMENT USED IN MANUFACTURING. *KB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 868431 |
| ODI Number | 10413749 |
| Date Filed | July 20, 2011 |
| Failure Date | July 16, 2011 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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