Consumer Complaint Detail

BUICK / CENTURY / 1998

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0 Injured
Investigations
0 Death
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No Fire
Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 007096563 Incident Date: Jan, 14 2007
Consumer's City: POTOMAC Consumer's State: MD
Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC
Model Name: CENTURY Model Year: 1998
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Exterior lighting:headlights
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: 2G4WS52M1W1 Date added to File: May, 23 2021
Date Complaint Received: Feb, 25 2007 Complaint Type: EVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Jul, 14 2000
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: No
Number of Cylinders: 6 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: Tl* - the contact owns a 1998 buick century. during january 2007 the contact noticed that the head lights were not on while driving. the contact tried to turn them on with the on off switch but that did not work. the high beams would turn on while holding the lever, but the normal head beams lights did not. the contact explained that after moving the light lever the normal headlight beams turned on. a month after the failure began the head lights completely stopped working on 2/25/07. the contact was going to take the vehicle to the dealer and have it inspected. the contact believed that this failure was too soon for a vehicle with an odometer reading of 119,000 miles and about 9 years old. the failure mileage was 118500.*ak