Consumer Safety Complaints
Search 2,215,138 safety complaints filed by vehicle owners with NHTSA — including 138,663 crashes, 56,255 fires, and 8,561 deaths.
What is a NHTSA consumer complaint?
A consumer complaint is a free-form report filed by a vehicle owner directly to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) describing a safety concern about their vehicle. NHTSA collects these reports through its Vehicle Owner Defect Report (VOQ) system and publishes them publicly. Each complaint includes the affected component, the date and circumstances of the incident, whether the failure caused a crash or fire, and any reported injuries or deaths. The owner's full narrative description is included verbatim — NHTSA does not edit or moderate the descriptions.
The database below contains over 2,215,138 individual complaints. NHTSA's investigators monitor it for clusters of similar reports — when enough owners describe the same failure mode on the same vehicle, NHTSA may open a Preliminary Evaluation that can lead to a recall. Many of the largest recalls in U.S. history, including the Takata airbag recall and the Hyundai/Kia engine fire recalls, started as patterns visible in this complaint database years before they became formal recalls.
How to interpret what you read
A few principles for reading consumer complaints usefully:
- One complaint is anecdote; a hundred similar complaints is data. NHTSA does not investigate the truthfulness of any individual report — that's the job of the Office of Defects Investigation, which looks at the full pattern. When evaluating a vehicle, look for whether multiple owners describe the same chain of events.
- Crash, fire, injury, and death flags are owner-set. They are not verified by NHTSA. They are still useful as a filter, because owners who tick those boxes are typically reporting more serious incidents than those who don't.
- Component categories are NHTSA-assigned, not owner-assigned. NHTSA standardizes the component field so that complaints can be aggregated. The owner narrative often goes into more detail than the component category captures.
- Complaint volume scales with sales volume. A best-selling model will accumulate more raw complaints than a niche model even at the same defect rate. To compare across vehicles, look at complaints per 100,000 units sold, not raw counts.
If you've experienced a defect
File a complaint. NHTSA's investigators rely on this database to detect emerging defects, and useful complaints — specific, concrete, with dates and mileage and clear descriptions of what happened — feed directly into the agency's pattern detection. The form takes about 10 minutes and is at nhtsa.gov/recalls under "Report a Safety Problem." Your complaint becomes part of the same public record that this page is built from. Owners filing detailed VOQs are how recalls get triggered.
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Showing 39,107 complaints for PONTIAC
Incident date: Apr 3, 2011
DRIVING MY POWER STEERING AND EXTERIOR LIGHTING GOES OUT ALL THE TIME. ALSO MY PASSENGER AIR BAG SAYS SERVICE AIR BAG ALL THE TIME. MY CAR HAS ALSO JUST SHUT DOWN ON ME ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS ON THE HIGHWAY ETC. *TR
Incident date: Apr 3, 2011
DRIVING MY POWER STEERING AND EXTERIOR LIGHTING GOES OUT ALL THE TIME. ALSO MY PASSENGER AIR BAG SAYS SERVICE AIR BAG ALL THE TIME. MY CAR HAS ALSO JUST SHUT DOWN ON ME ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS ON THE HIGHWAY ETC. *TR
Incident date: Apr 3, 2011
DRIVING MY POWER STEERING AND EXTERIOR LIGHTING GOES OUT ALL THE TIME. ALSO MY PASSENGER AIR BAG SAYS SERVICE AIR BAG ALL THE TIME. MY CAR HAS ALSO JUST SHUT DOWN ON ME ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS ON THE HIGHWAY ETC. *TR
Incident date: Aug 20, 2014
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 PONTIAC G6. THE CONTACT RECEIVED A NOTIFICATION FOR RECALL NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V252000 (ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL, EXTERIOR LIGHTING, SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC, VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL) AND NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V224000 (POWER TRAIN). HOWEVER, THE PARTS NEEDED TO THE REPAIRS WERE UNAVAILABLE. THE DEALER WAS UNCERTAIN WHEN THE PARTS WOULD BE... Read more
Incident date: Aug 20, 2014
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 PONTIAC G6. THE CONTACT RECEIVED A NOTIFICATION FOR RECALL NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V252000 (ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL, EXTERIOR LIGHTING, SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC, VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL) AND NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V224000 (POWER TRAIN). HOWEVER, THE PARTS NEEDED TO THE REPAIRS WERE UNAVAILABLE. THE DEALER WAS UNCERTAIN WHEN THE PARTS WOULD BE... Read more
Incident date: Jul 14, 2014
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 PONTIAC G6. THE CONTACT RECEIVED A RECALL NOTIFICATION FOR NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V252000 (ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL, EXTERIOR LIGHTING, SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC, VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL); HOWEVER, THE PARTS NEEDED FOR THE REPAIR WERE UNAVAILABLE. THE DEALER STATED THAT THE MANUFACTURER DID NOT HAVE AN ESTIMATED DATE AS TO WHEN THE PARTS WOULD BEC... Read more
Incident date: Jul 14, 2014
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 PONTIAC G6. THE CONTACT RECEIVED A RECALL NOTIFICATION FOR NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V252000 (ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL, EXTERIOR LIGHTING, SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC, VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL); HOWEVER, THE PARTS NEEDED FOR THE REPAIR WERE UNAVAILABLE. THE DEALER STATED THAT THE MANUFACTURER DID NOT HAVE AN ESTIMATED DATE AS TO WHEN THE PARTS WOULD BEC... Read more
Incident date: Jul 14, 2014
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 PONTIAC G6. THE CONTACT RECEIVED A RECALL NOTIFICATION FOR NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V252000 (ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL, EXTERIOR LIGHTING, SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC, VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL); HOWEVER, THE PARTS NEEDED FOR THE REPAIR WERE UNAVAILABLE. THE DEALER STATED THAT THE MANUFACTURER DID NOT HAVE AN ESTIMATED DATE AS TO WHEN THE PARTS WOULD BEC... Read more
Incident date: Jul 14, 2014
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 PONTIAC G6. THE CONTACT RECEIVED A RECALL NOTIFICATION FOR NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V252000 (ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL, EXTERIOR LIGHTING, SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC, VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL); HOWEVER, THE PARTS NEEDED FOR THE REPAIR WERE UNAVAILABLE. THE DEALER STATED THAT THE MANUFACTURER DID NOT HAVE AN ESTIMATED DATE AS TO WHEN THE PARTS WOULD BEC... Read more
Incident date: Jul 14, 2014
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 PONTIAC G6. THE CONTACT RECEIVED A RECALL NOTIFICATION FOR NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V252000 (ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL, EXTERIOR LIGHTING, SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC, VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL); HOWEVER, THE PARTS NEEDED FOR THE REPAIR WERE UNAVAILABLE. THE DEALER STATED THAT THE MANUFACTURER DID NOT HAVE AN ESTIMATED DATE AS TO WHEN THE PARTS WOULD BEC... Read more
Incident date: Aug 20, 2014
WHILE DRIVING THE POWER STEERING SUDDENLY GAVE OUT. IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO DRIVE AND NEARLY CAUSED AN ACCIDENT. THERE WAS LOTS OF SMOKE AS WELL. AFTER HAVING IT LOOKED AT BY A MECHANIC WE WERE TOLD THAT THE POWER STEERING HOSE IS TOO CLOSE TO THE MANIFOLD AND BURNED A HOLE THROUGH IT. HE SAID IT IS AN UNSAFE DESIGN. *TR
Incident date: Aug 11, 2014
I HAVE A 2008 PONTIAC G6 THAT CONSTANTLY HAS ISSUES WHERE THE LOW BEAM BULBS WILL BURN OUT. IT KEPT GETTING WORSE AS I WAS REPLACING THEM EVERY 8-9 MONTHS. I JUST WENT TO GO TAKE OUT THE BURNED ONE THE OTHER DAY ONLY TO FIND THAT THE WHOLE SOCKET THE BULB IS CONNECTED TO WAS COMPLETELY MELTED ALONG WITH A NASTY BURN SMELL EMITTING FROM THE BACK OF THE HEADLIGHT ASSEMBLY. THANKFULLY GM GAVE ME AN E... Read more
Incident date: Aug 11, 2014
I HAVE A 2008 PONTIAC G6 THAT CONSTANTLY HAS ISSUES WHERE THE LOW BEAM BULBS WILL BURN OUT. IT KEPT GETTING WORSE AS I WAS REPLACING THEM EVERY 8-9 MONTHS. I JUST WENT TO GO TAKE OUT THE BURNED ONE THE OTHER DAY ONLY TO FIND THAT THE WHOLE SOCKET THE BULB IS CONNECTED TO WAS COMPLETELY MELTED ALONG WITH A NASTY BURN SMELL EMITTING FROM THE BACK OF THE HEADLIGHT ASSEMBLY. THANKFULLY GM GAVE ME AN E... Read more
Incident date: Aug 17, 2014
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2003 PONTIAC VIBE. WHILE APPROACHING A STOP LIGHT, THE FRONT END OF THE VEHICLE MADE A LOUD NOISE. AFTER ACCELERATING, THE VEHICLE SEIZED WITHOUT WARNING. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC AND THE TECHNICIAN DIAGNOSED THAT THE TRANSMISSION NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED AND THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILE... Read more
Incident date: Jan 1, 2003
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2003 PONTIAC VIBE. WHILE DRIVING DURING THE DAYTIME, THE CONTACT COULD NOT READ THE INSTRUMENT PANEL DISPLAY. THE LIGHTING WAS ADJUSTED TO THE HIGHEST SETTING. THE DEALER DIAGNOSED THAT THE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 900. UPDATED 6/3/15*CN
Incident date: Jun 10, 2010
TL* THE CONTACT OWNED A 2003 PONTIAC VIBE. WHILE TRAVELING ON A MAJOR ROADWAY, A CRASH OCCURRED AND THE CONTACT EXPERIENCED A FAILURE. THE CONTACT WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL AND DID NOT RECALL THE DETAILS OF HOW THE CRASH OCCURRED. A POLICE REPORT WAS FILED AND THE VEHICLE WAS DESTROYED. THE CONTACT SUSTAINED MAJOR INJURIES INCLUDING RODS IN THE NECK, MEMORY LOSS, HEADACHES, A HUGE LACERATION... Read more
Crash
1 injured
Incident date: Aug 1, 2013
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS: BUT RIGHT NOW I CAN TURN THE IGNITION AND THE CAR WILL GIVE THE SOUND OF STARTING UP BUT WILL NOT. I HAD THE FOLLOWING ITEMS CHECKED: FUEL PUMP OPERATION: PRESSURES ARE GOOD INJECTOR PULSE - ENGINE HAS SPARK BODY CONTROL MODULE: B2965 - KEY IGNITION FAULT RECOMMENDED TO SEE DEALER FOR POSSIBLE RECALL AND OR IGNITION DIAGNOSE. *TR
Incident date: Aug 1, 2013
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS: BUT RIGHT NOW I CAN TURN THE IGNITION AND THE CAR WILL GIVE THE SOUND OF STARTING UP BUT WILL NOT. I HAD THE FOLLOWING ITEMS CHECKED: FUEL PUMP OPERATION: PRESSURES ARE GOOD INJECTOR PULSE - ENGINE HAS SPARK BODY CONTROL MODULE: B2965 - KEY IGNITION FAULT RECOMMENDED TO SEE DEALER FOR POSSIBLE RECALL AND OR IGNITION DIAGNOSE. *TR
Incident date: Aug 1, 2013
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS: BUT RIGHT NOW I CAN TURN THE IGNITION AND THE CAR WILL GIVE THE SOUND OF STARTING UP BUT WILL NOT. I HAD THE FOLLOWING ITEMS CHECKED: FUEL PUMP OPERATION: PRESSURES ARE GOOD INJECTOR PULSE - ENGINE HAS SPARK BODY CONTROL MODULE: B2965 - KEY IGNITION FAULT RECOMMENDED TO SEE DEALER FOR POSSIBLE RECALL AND OR IGNITION DIAGNOSE. *TR
Incident date: Aug 20, 2014
WHEN I ASKED A SERVICE MANAGER AT SULLIVAN PARKHILL GM DEALERSHIP IN CHAMPAIGN, IL. HE STATED THAT GM HAS HAD NO SUCH AGREEMENT REGARDING NHTSA ACTION NUMBER : PE05055 AND IF I WANT THAT COMPONENT REPAIRED IT WOULD BE ON A "TIME AND MATERIALS" PROCEDURE. DO I HAVE ANY OTHER RECOURSE REGARDING NHTSA ACTION NUMBER: PE05055 CORDIALLY, [XXX] NHTSA RECALL CAMPAIGN NUMBER : N/A VEHICLE ... Read more
Incident date: Aug 20, 2014
WHEN I ASKED A SERVICE MANAGER AT SULLIVAN PARKHILL GM DEALERSHIP IN CHAMPAIGN, IL. HE STATED THAT GM HAS HAD NO SUCH AGREEMENT REGARDING NHTSA ACTION NUMBER : PE05055 AND IF I WANT THAT COMPONENT REPAIRED IT WOULD BE ON A "TIME AND MATERIALS" PROCEDURE. DO I HAVE ANY OTHER RECOURSE REGARDING NHTSA ACTION NUMBER: PE05055 CORDIALLY, [XXX] NHTSA RECALL CAMPAIGN NUMBER : N/A VEHICLE ... Read more
Incident date: Aug 1, 2010
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2003 PONTIAC SUNFIRE. WHILE DRIVING AT AN UNKNOWN SPEED, THE CONTACT HEARD A RATTLING NOISE FROM THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHO STATED THAT THE TIMING CHAIN SEPARATED AND CAUSED THE TENSIONER AND VALVE TO FAIL. THE TIMING CHAIN VALVE AND TENSIONER WERE REPLACED, BUT THE FAILURE RECURRED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE ... Read more
Incident date: Jul 13, 2014
MY 2003 PONTIAC VIBE RECEIVED OVER $10000 IN DAMAGES AND WAS JUDGED TOTALED DUE TO A COLLISION WITH A LINCOLN TOWNCAR ON JULY 13, 2014. THE LINCOLN STRUCK THE FRONT OF MY CAR AT AN ANGLE WHILE MAKING A LEFT TURN INTO MY PATH FROM ONCOMING TRAFFIC. I WAS TRAVELING APPROXIMATELY 40-45 MPH AND HAD LITTLE TIME TO REACT AND BRAKE PRIOR TO THE IMPACT. THE IMPACT DROVE THE FRONT BUMPER INTO THE RADIAT... Read more
Crash
1 injured
Incident date: Aug 7, 2012
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2003 PONTIAC VIBE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE DRIVER SIDE AIR BAG WARNING INDICATOR ILLUMINATED. THE CONTACT WAS INFORMED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS INCLUDED IN NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V312000 (AIR BAGS). THE DEALER STATED THAT THE DRIVER SIDE AIR BAG MODULE INFLATOR FAILED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 60,000.
Incident date: Aug 18, 2014
IGNITION SWITCH. *TR
Incident date: Aug 17, 2014
SCARIEST INCIDENT IN MY LIFE, LOST STEERING OF THE CAR AS I TURNED INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC (45 MPH). I HAD TO USE FULL MUSCLE AND WEIGHT TO TURN THE CAR OUT OF THE PATH OF ONCOMING TRAFFIC. SOMEONE WITH LESS MUSCLE WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN HEAD ON COLLISION. THIS INCIDENT IS RELATED TO GM'S NUMBER FOR THIS RECALL IS N140115. I DO NOT THINK GM IS TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY. *TR
Incident date: Aug 15, 2014
WAS FOLLOWING A CAR THEY WANT TO STOP AND I COULDN'T STOP AND REAR ENDED THE CAR. *TR
Crash
Incident date: Aug 15, 2014
WAS FOLLOWING A CAR THEY WANT TO STOP AND I COULDN'T STOP AND REAR ENDED THE CAR. *TR
Crash
Incident date: Aug 15, 2014
WAS FOLLOWING A CAR THEY WANT TO STOP AND I COULDN'T STOP AND REAR ENDED THE CAR. *TR
Crash
Incident date: Aug 1, 2014
HEADLIGHTS ON 2009 PONTIAC G6 GT CONSTANTLY GOING OUT. THE WIRING HARNESS HAS TO BE REPLACED BECAUSE THE CONNECTION MELTS AND HAVE TO REPLACE THE WIRING HARNESS. CALLED GM AND THEY SAID THAT IT IS NOT A CONCERN FOR THEM AND WILL NOT ASSIST IN FIXING THE ISSUE. THIS WILL BE THE 3RD TIME I HAVE REPLACED THE WIRING HARNESS TO THE HEADLIGHTS. THIS IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AS IT COULD CAUSE A FIRE WITH ... Read more
Incident date: Aug 1, 2014
HEADLIGHTS ON 2009 PONTIAC G6 GT CONSTANTLY GOING OUT. THE WIRING HARNESS HAS TO BE REPLACED BECAUSE THE CONNECTION MELTS AND HAVE TO REPLACE THE WIRING HARNESS. CALLED GM AND THEY SAID THAT IT IS NOT A CONCERN FOR THEM AND WILL NOT ASSIST IN FIXING THE ISSUE. THIS WILL BE THE 3RD TIME I HAVE REPLACED THE WIRING HARNESS TO THE HEADLIGHTS. THIS IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AS IT COULD CAUSE A FIRE WITH ... Read more
PONTIAC
BONNEVILLE
(2000) — VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:ACCELERATOR PEDAL
Aug 18, 2014
Incident date: Aug 15, 2014
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE. WHEN THE CONTACT DEPRESSED THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL, THE VEHICLE FAILED TO RESPOND. THE CONTACT NOTICED A FUEL ODOR OUTSIDE OF THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 150,000.
PONTIAC
BONNEVILLE
(2000) — FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
Aug 18, 2014
Incident date: Aug 15, 2014
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE. WHEN THE CONTACT DEPRESSED THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL, THE VEHICLE FAILED TO RESPOND. THE CONTACT NOTICED A FUEL ODOR OUTSIDE OF THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 150,000.
Incident date: Jul 26, 2014
I HAD JUST GOT CAR THE VERY NEXT DAY AS I WAS TURNING A CORNER I SUDDENLY LOST POWER STEERING . CAUSING CAR TO FLIP . THERE WAS BROKEN GLASS AND WENT INTO TOP OF HAND . I WAS TOLD BY EMT THAT STITCHES COULD NOT BE PUT THERE .SO THEY BANDAGED IT JUST BANGED UP AND THEY SAID I SEEMED FINE IF I HAD ANY PROBLEMS IN NEXT FEW HOURS TO GO TO HOSPITAL. SO I WAS NOT TAKEN. SINCE THEN I'VE DEVELOPED NUMBNES... Read more
Crash
Incident date: Jul 26, 2014
I HAD JUST GOT CAR THE VERY NEXT DAY AS I WAS TURNING A CORNER I SUDDENLY LOST POWER STEERING . CAUSING CAR TO FLIP . THERE WAS BROKEN GLASS AND WENT INTO TOP OF HAND . I WAS TOLD BY EMT THAT STITCHES COULD NOT BE PUT THERE .SO THEY BANDAGED IT JUST BANGED UP AND THEY SAID I SEEMED FINE IF I HAD ANY PROBLEMS IN NEXT FEW HOURS TO GO TO HOSPITAL. SO I WAS NOT TAKEN. SINCE THEN I'VE DEVELOPED NUMBNES... Read more
Crash
Incident date: May 14, 2014
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 PONTIAC G6. WHILE DRIVING VARIOUS SPEEDS, THE STEERING WHEEL SEIZED. THE FAILURE OCCURRED ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALER TO BE REPAIRED ACCORDING TO NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V153000 (STEERING); HOWEVER, THE PART NEEDED FOR THE REPAIR WAS UNAVAILABLE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS UNKNOWN.
Incident date: Aug 16, 2014
I HAD PARKED MY CAR IN MY DRIVEWAY, WHEN I NOTICED A GAS SMELL COMING FROM THE BACK END OF MY CAR. WHEN MY FATHER IN LAW CAME OUT HE SAW THAT THERE WAS GAS LEAKING ONTO MY EXHAUST. AFTER DOING RESEARCH ONLINE I HAVE COME ACROSS A RECALL FOR THE FULL PUMP SEAL. I CONTACTED GM AND ARE CLAIMING TO NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THIS RECALL. I AS WELL CALLED AIRTREX PRODUCTIONS AND THEY WILL ONLY TAK... Read more
Incident date: May 24, 2012
I PURCHASED A CAR FROM AN INDIVIDUAL WHO ADVERTISED A CAR FOR SALE BY STATING"AC WORKS HEATER WORKS" UNFORTUNATELY WITHIN 45 MIN AFTER PURCHASING THE VEHICLE I WAS LEFT STRANDED ON SIDE OF THE ROAD IN EXTREMELY HIGH HEAT DUE TO CAR DYING BECAUSE IT OVERHEATED BUT I WASNT AWARE OF IT BECAUSE IT NEVER GOT HOT ON TEMP GAUGE BECAUSE I LATER FOUND OUT THERE WAS NO THERMOSTAT IN THE MOTOR.. I WAS UNABLE... Read more
PONTIAC
GRAND PRIX
(2006) — ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Aug 18, 2014
Incident date: Aug 7, 2014
LOW BEAMS WENT OUT , WHEN I GOT HOME AND TURNED OFF CAR, I NOTICED SMOKED COMING FROM UNDER HOOD OF CAR MY RELAY FUSE BOX WAS ON FIRE ,LOW BEAM RELAY WAS MELTED. PONTIAC SAYS THERE ARE NO RECALLS ON THIS CAR BUT THERE SEEMS TO BE ALOT OF PEOPLE WITH THE SAME PROBLEM. *TR
Fire
PONTIAC
GRAND PRIX
(2006) — EXTERIOR LIGHTING
Aug 18, 2014
Incident date: Aug 7, 2014
LOW BEAMS WENT OUT , WHEN I GOT HOME AND TURNED OFF CAR, I NOTICED SMOKED COMING FROM UNDER HOOD OF CAR MY RELAY FUSE BOX WAS ON FIRE ,LOW BEAM RELAY WAS MELTED. PONTIAC SAYS THERE ARE NO RECALLS ON THIS CAR BUT THERE SEEMS TO BE ALOT OF PEOPLE WITH THE SAME PROBLEM. *TR
Fire
PONTIAC
GRAND PRIX
(2008) — EXTERIOR LIGHTING
Aug 17, 2014
Incident date: Jan 31, 2014
LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS SHUT OFF DURING DRIVING. HAVE OWNED THE CAR FOR ABOUT 8 MONTHS NOW AND HAS HAPPENED 4 TIMES RANDOMLY (3 ON THE INTERSTATE). THE HIGH BEAMS WILL STILL WORK. JUST HAVE TO PULL OVER AND WAIT UNTIL THEY COME BACK ON. VERY FRUSTRATING & WORRISOME. *TR
Incident date: Jun 1, 2014
DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD ABS, BATTERY AND AIR BAG LIGHTS COME ON 99-2005 PONTIAC GRAND AMS HAVE A COMMON PROBLEM WITH WATER GOING THROUGH BLOWER MOTOR GOING ON TO THE FLOOR THE AIR BAG MODULE LOCATED UNDER THE CARPET ON THE PASSENGER SIDE GETS WET CAUSING AIR BAG FAILURE THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE THAT NEEDS ADDRESSED AGAIN A COMMON PROBLEM GENERAL MOTORS HAS KNOWN ABOUT BUT ALL THEY DID WAS CREATE A SER... Read more
Incident date: Jun 1, 2014
DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD ABS, BATTERY AND AIR BAG LIGHTS COME ON 99-2005 PONTIAC GRAND AMS HAVE A COMMON PROBLEM WITH WATER GOING THROUGH BLOWER MOTOR GOING ON TO THE FLOOR THE AIR BAG MODULE LOCATED UNDER THE CARPET ON THE PASSENGER SIDE GETS WET CAUSING AIR BAG FAILURE THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE THAT NEEDS ADDRESSED AGAIN A COMMON PROBLEM GENERAL MOTORS HAS KNOWN ABOUT BUT ALL THEY DID WAS CREATE A SER... Read more
Incident date: Jul 9, 2014
MY SON WAS DRIVING AND HE COULDN'T TURN THE WHEEL BACK AS HE CAME OUT OF A CURVE. THIS RESULTED IN THE VEHICLE BEING WRECKED AND TOTALED. *TR
Crash
Incident date: Aug 16, 2014
MY WIFE, MY CHILD, AND I WERE ON OUR WAY HOME WHEN SUDDENLY THE TRACTION CONTROL ON MY WIFE'S 2008 PONTIAC G6 STOPPED WORKING WHILE ROUNDING A SHARP CORNER GOING DOWN A MOUNTAIN JUST A FEW MILES FROM MY HOME. THE CAR SLID SIDEWAYS TO THE LEFT MID TURN AND LEFT US COMPLETELY SIDEWAYS ACROSS BOTH LANES. I WAS IN A PANIC AS IT HAPPENED SO FAST, BEFORE I COULD REACT A LARGE TRUCK ROUNDED THE CORNER CO... Read more
Incident date: Aug 16, 2014
MY WIFE, MY CHILD, AND I WERE ON OUR WAY HOME WHEN SUDDENLY THE TRACTION CONTROL ON MY WIFE'S 2008 PONTIAC G6 STOPPED WORKING WHILE ROUNDING A SHARP CORNER GOING DOWN A MOUNTAIN JUST A FEW MILES FROM MY HOME. THE CAR SLID SIDEWAYS TO THE LEFT MID TURN AND LEFT US COMPLETELY SIDEWAYS ACROSS BOTH LANES. I WAS IN A PANIC AS IT HAPPENED SO FAST, BEFORE I COULD REACT A LARGE TRUCK ROUNDED THE CORNER CO... Read more
Incident date: Aug 11, 2014
I WAS DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 35-40 MPH APPROACHING AN INTERSECTION WITH A STOP SIGN, (WHICH CAN SNEAK UP ON YOU IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE AREA, WHICH I AM), AND APPLIED MY BRAKES TO SLOW FOR THE SIGN. THE VEHICLE BEHIND ME DID NOT APPEAR TO BE SLOWING, AND THEN I HEAR BRAKES SCREECHING. THE VEHICLE DID MANAGE TO STOP BEFORE HITTING ME; HOWEVER, I WAS RATTLED. AFTER THE ALMOST CRASH, THE ... Read more
Incident date: Aug 11, 2014
I WAS DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 35-40 MPH APPROACHING AN INTERSECTION WITH A STOP SIGN, (WHICH CAN SNEAK UP ON YOU IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE AREA, WHICH I AM), AND APPLIED MY BRAKES TO SLOW FOR THE SIGN. THE VEHICLE BEHIND ME DID NOT APPEAR TO BE SLOWING, AND THEN I HEAR BRAKES SCREECHING. THE VEHICLE DID MANAGE TO STOP BEFORE HITTING ME; HOWEVER, I WAS RATTLED. AFTER THE ALMOST CRASH, THE ... Read more
Incident date: Aug 14, 2014
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2002 PONTIAC GRAND AM. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING 45 MPH, THE PASSLOCK ANTI-THEFT SYSTEM SUDDENLY ACTIVATED CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO STALL. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO THE DEALER. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED ABOUT THE FAILURE. THE VIN WAS NOT AVAILABLE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE IS UNKNO... Read more