2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO — Complaint #873887
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS:SWITCH filed August 15, 2011
NHTSA complaint #873887 (ODI reference 10419485) concerns a 2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO and was filed on August 15, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2007. The vehicle had 70,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California 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 OLDSMOBILE ALERO 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 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. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE TURN SIGNALS WERE INOPERATIVE. THE DEALER AND MANUFACTURER WERE NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE AND MADE THE CONTACT AWARE OF THE NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 03V327000 (EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS:SWITCH) RECALL, BUT THE CONTACTS VIN WAS NOT A PART OF THE RECALL. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 70,000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 101,000. UPDATED 09/8/11*LJ THE CONSUMER STATED THE INTERMITTENT SIGNAL PROBLEM STARTED APPROXIMATELY FOUR YEARS AGO. THE PROBLEM HAS BECOME WORSE OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, TO THE POINT WHERE THE SIGNALS HARDLY WORK. (DAUGHTER WROTE IN ON BEHALF OF MOTHER) UPDATED 09/14/11. *JB UPDATED 09/15/11
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 873887 |
| ODI Number | 10419485 |
| Date Filed | August 15, 2011 |
| Failure Date | January 1, 2007 |
| VIN | 1G3NL52T4YC |
Similar EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS:SWITCH Complaints for 2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO
THIS CAR IS EXPERIENCING THE SAME PROBLEMS AS DESCRIBED IN NHTSA RECALL 03V327000. THE SIGNAL LIGHTS AND HAZARD LIGHTS ARE INTERMITTENTLY WORKING AND NOT RELIABLE AT ALL. CALLED TO SEE IF OLDSMOBILE
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE TURN SIGNALS INTERMITTENTLY STOPPED WORKING. WHEN THE TURN SIGNALS STOPPED FUNCTIONING CORRECTLY, THE HAZARD LIGHTS WOULD MALFU
I RECEIVED LETTER FROM GMC INFORMING OF A RECALL ON THE HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHT (03V327000 OR GMC # 03043. I WAS ALREADY EXPERIENCING ISSUES AT THAT TIME THE DEALER TOLD ME THAT IT WOULD HAVE TO
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE TURN SIGNAL AND HAZARD LIGHT BUTTONS ON THE DASHBOARD CONSTANTLY SWITCH. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER AND THEY STATED
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE EXTERIOR LIGHTING OF THE VEHICLE WAS DEFECTIVE. WHEN THE LEFT OR RIGHT TURN SIGNALS WERE ACTIVATED, THE REAR EXTERIOR LIGHTIN
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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