Brightstar Exterior Lighting

Brightstar is recalling about 900 vehicles over a problem with the exterior lighting. Lamps may produce excess glare to oncoming traffic.

Campaign
04E055000
Manufacturer
IMPORTHOOKUP.COM
Reported
4 August 2004
Vehicles
900
Built between
Not published
Models
1
Recall type
Equipment
Initiated by
NHTSA compliance test
Owners notified
Not yet
Repaired
Not reported
Unrepaired
Not reported

Does this affect my vehicle?

The manufacturer did not publish a build-date range for this recall, so the model and year list below is the only way to tell whether your vehicle is covered.

  • Brightstar HID Conversion KIT

What the defect is

Importhookup.com hid kits for use on passenger vehicles. The lamps in these kits do not comply with the electrical and dementional requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 108, lamps, reflective devices, and associated equipment.

What could happen

Lamps may produce excess glare to oncoming traffic.

What gets fixed

IMPORTHOOKUP.COM WILL NOTIFY ITS CUSTOMERS AND WILL REPURCHASE OR OFFER A REFUND FOR THE NONCOMPLIANT HID KITS. THE RECALL IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN DURING AUGUST 2004.

Timeline

  1. Recall reported to NHTSA4 August 2004

No owner-notification date has been published yet. Manufacturers normally write to registered owners within 60 days of reporting a recall.

Your rights

A safety recall repair is free. Under US federal law the manufacturer must fix a safety defect at no cost to you — no charge for parts, labor or diagnosis — whether or not you are the original owner. A dealer cannot charge you for recall work, and cannot require you to have bought the vehicle from them.

That entitlement is not unlimited. It applies where the vehicle was first sold less than 15 years before the recall was announced — 5 years for tires. Past that a manufacturer may still do the repair free of charge, and many do, but they are no longer obliged to. This recall was reported on 4 August 2004.

To arrange the repair, contact any franchised dealer for the brand. If a dealer refuses the work or tries to charge for it, you can report that to NHTSA at nhtsa.gov/recalls or on 1-888-327-4236.

Manufacturer contact

Owners who do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact importhookup.com at 949-679-1928.

Official source

Recalling manufacturer
IMPORTHOOKUP.COM
Safety standard
FMVSS 108
Recall initiated by
OVSC

Everything on this page — the models listed, the build dates and the repair figures — comes from the manufacturer's filing to NHTSA and describes the vehicle line as a whole, not any individual car. Only the manufacturer can confirm whether a specific vehicle is affected, and whether its recall work has already been carried out. Check yours by VIN and read the official notice at nhtsa.gov/recalls.

Additional notes

Also, customers can contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-DASH-2-DOT (1-888-327-4236).

Check your own vehicle

This page describes the recall, not any one car. To see which recalls cover a specific vehicle, search by make, model and year.

A VIN lookup here identifies your vehicle and shows recalls issued for that make, model and year. It cannot tell you what is still open on your individual car - only the manufacturer knows that. Search by VIN instead, or check your VIN at nhtsa.gov for whether a recall is still open on your individual car.

Same component

Same brand