1997 Buick Park Avenue defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1997 Buick Park Avenue. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• POWER RACK AND PINION STEERING FAILURE
  Recall Query RQ03001 · opened Jan 2, 2003 · closed Sep 15, 2003

  Gm conducted a safety recall (nhtsa # 02v286) to address a steering defect pertaining to a lower pinion bearing (lpb) within the rack and pinion steering gear (r&p). The recall covered 1,159,156 model year 1997-1998 pontiac grand prix vehicles built between march 1, 1996 and october 31, 1997, 1996-1998 pontiac trans sp…

• ENGINE COMPARTMENT FIRES
  Engineering Analysis EA02030 · opened Oct 22, 2002 · closed Mar 9, 2004 · led to recall 04V090000

  Ea02-030 is closed with gmea02-030 is closed with gm?s actions in 03v-473 and 04v-090 recalling approximately 529,000 my 1998-99 c- and h-body vehicles equipped with defective fuel pressure regulators.these vehicles were equipped with plastic intake manifolds that are unable to contain pressures that occur in some back…

• ENGINE COMPARTMENT FIRES
  Preliminary Evaluation PE02050 · opened Jun 13, 2002 · closed Oct 22, 2002
• FRONT SHOULDER BELT MALFUNCTION
  Engineering Analysis EA00002 · opened Jan 6, 2000 · closed May 2, 2000 · led to recall 00V117000

  There is no summary currently available

• FRONT SHOULDER BELT MALFUNCTION
  Preliminary Evaluation PE99056 · opened Sep 2, 1999 · closed Jan 6, 2000

  There is no summary currently available