Keystone Rear Tail Lamp: problems, complaints, bulletins
Summary for the Keystone Rear Tail Lamp across 1 model years: 2 owner complaints and 0 NHTSA service bulletins, plus repair videos. Pick a year for details.
Model years
| Year | Owner complaints | involving a crash | Technical service bulletins (TSB) | YouTube repair videos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9999 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What fails most often
- Equipment: 2 complaints (100% of all).
Components owners complain about
| Component | Owner complaints | involving a crash | Technical service bulletins (TSB) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equipment | 2 | 0 | 0 |
What owners report
Short excerpts of NHTSA complaints in the original wording. These are owner statements not verified by NHTSA; personal data removed.
2004 chevy malibu lt front left & right amber headlight assemblies are melted. Left side is 9 months old and already melted through. Right side looks like original, has plastic amber bulb melted on top. On left side bulb socket is burnt.
Keystone corporation has supplied thousands of reproduction headlamp assys. For various model vehicles which are not dot compliant and fail "108" test. They have refused to address "recall" issues from the collision industry and contend there are no safety issues which is not true.
When owners complained
NHTSA complaints by filing year. The peak shows at what age the problems show up most.
Other models of this make
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Sources: public NHTSA data (USA): service bulletins and owner complaints; YouTube: links to videos credited to their authors. Complaints are owner statements not verified by NHTSA, and describe defects rather than crash damage. Data updated 2026-11-05.