1998 Cadillac Deville defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1998 Cadillac Deville. 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…

• INADVERTENT OF SIDE IMPACT AIR BAG
  Engineering Analysis EA00004 · opened Feb 15, 2000 · closed Sep 28, 2000 · led to recall 00V217000

  There is no summary currently available

• INADVERTENT DEPLOYMENT OF SIDE AIR BAG
  Preliminary Evaluation PE99061 · opened Sep 27, 1999 · closed Feb 15, 2000

  This side impact air bag can inadvertently deploy due to a number of root caused including: erroneous acceleration inputs or false activation of the air bag deployment algorithm due to an electrical malfunction in the sensing and diagnostic module (sdm); false activation resulting from an electrical short in the sdm wi…