2.0

hardly worth mentioning
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
80,000 miles

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problem #1

Dec 172018

Outback

  • 80,000 miles
My complaint is my headlights' they're cloudy. On Nov. 29, 2018 the institute of highway safety released a report that said that 'most base model cars have poor-quality headlights. My complaint is the car manufacturers created this problem when they decided decades ago that plastic was a better shield over the headlights than glass. My suggestion is to make the car manufacturers go back to installing glass over their headlights or U.S. drivers are always going to have cloudy headlights. Even when we buff them out and make them shine again, it only last 6 or 7 years. This is ridiculous and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should change this flaw in auto manufacturing by making it a law to use glass when they build their headlights in the future.

- Dayton, NV, USA

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