1996 Cadillac Seville defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1996 Cadillac Seville. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• FUEL RAIL LEAKS
  Engineering Analysis EA04003 · opened Feb 3, 2004 · closed Apr 23, 2004 · led to recall 04V110000

  On march 3, 2004, general motors notified odi that it was recalling approximately 94,000 my 1995-97 oldsmobile aurora vehicles equipped with 4.0l v8 engines (rpo l47 - vin8 c) to address concerns with underhood fuel leakage from cracked fuel rails and, in some of the vehicles, cracked fuel return lines. According to gm…

• FUEL RAIL LEAKAGE
  Preliminary Evaluation PE03050 · opened Oct 30, 2003 · closed Feb 3, 2004

  The fuel rail assemblies used in the subject vehicles were manufactured by dana.the fuel rail jumper tubes were made of monolayer nylon 12 (pa12).in model year (my) 1998, the jumper tube material was changed from pa12 to m-bond (a multi-layer ptfe/pa12).in addition, all service parts produced since the end of productio…

• 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 AIR BAG DEPLOYMENT
  Engineering Analysis EA98004 · opened Feb 24, 1998 · closed Jun 16, 1998 · led to recall 98V115000

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