Government Investigating Possible Defects in Cadillacs, Oldsmobiles

TBO ^ | 11/3/03 | AP

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is investigating Cadillac and Oldsmobile vehicles after consumers reported six fires due to fuel leaks, the National Highway Safety Administration said Monday. NHTSA is investigating Cadillac DeVilles, Eldorados and Sevilles and Oldsmobile Auroras after getting 69 complaints from consumers in the last two years. No injuries have been reported. Around 400,000 vehicles from model years 1995-97 could be affected.

NHTSA said many of the complaints describe fuel spraying from small holes in plastic sections of the fuel rail, which is a pipe that supplies fuel to the injectors. Cadillac and Oldsmobile vehicles have the same fuel rail.

NHTSA investigations can lead to a vehicle recall.

[capitan_refugio]

It has been my experience that the defects in most any automobile are usually found behind the steering wheel.

[IYAS9YAS]

You would change your mind about my 1983 Peugeot 505s...Got it on the cheap...was a real losermobile. It had all the acceleration of a fully loaded semi, stopped on a dime - providing the street was paved with dimes, cornered like it was off rails and idled like a diesel - it was gas. One vehicle I was happy to rid myself of.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That's some car, that Peugeot.

[trebb]

It has been my experience that the defects in most any automobile are usually found behind the steering wheel. You would love reading up on how the Ford Pinto was allowed to kill a lot of people when the fix would have added less than $20.00 to the cost of the auto...

[Zathras]

One time in everyone's life, you should own a car worthy of being taken out and shot.
Mine was an Audi 5000. We took it out and shot it.

12ga slugs make very big holes.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I could name a whole series of English cars that deserved a 12 gauge. Hell, the whole damned English car industry of the 1950s and 60s deserved what it eventually got.

[IYAS9YAS]

Yeah, I think it was French for "Sucker". Glad I didn't pay new price for it.

[IYAS9YAS]

Yeah, I would have loved to shoot it. Oh, did I mention the driver's seat back mechanism (the release to let the seat back drop backward into the rear seat) gave out on me as I was going down the road? One second I'm happily motoring away from a stop sign at break neck speed (okay, a turtle stuck in glue pace), the next, I'm looking at the headliner. That was fun.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Was this the model often referred to as being "bent at both ends" ?

[capitan_refugio]

I'm not saying there aren't lemons out there. I'm just saying there are A LOT of people with driver's licenses who have no business behind the wheel.

[capitan_refugio]

I drove a Pinto station wagon for a while in college. Loved it.

[IYAS9YAS]

Couldn't say...never heard that saying.

[IYAS9YAS]

I agree with what you say but one thing..."with driver's licenses". Where I live, there are a lot of people (mostly undocumented immigrant workers - read "illegal aliens") who don't have them.

[capitan_refugio]

After the Pinto, I drove a Fiat X 1/9 Bertone. I was hoping it would be a chick magnet. I don't know which was slower, me for owning that thing, or the Fiat trying to accelerate onto Los Angeles Freeways.

Never had mechanical problems that Fiats were known for ... FIAT = Fix It Again Tony.

[capitan_refugio]

In California, where I live, it doesn't matter anymore! If you are an illegal, you are welcomed! and they give you licenses! and they register you to vote!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That's because your Fiat never visited a cold climate. X19s and 128s died awful deaths in midwest and northern winters in the 1970s.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The "bent" thing came from both the hood and trunk having a prominent sawed off edge in sheet metal. I am slightly familiar with the 304 and 404 sedans. These were dogs from an earlier era, which is why we called then by the correct name: Pooch-owe !