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1989 Fleetwood Limited Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Oct 27, 2002
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Oct 27, 2002

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 1989 Fleetwood Limited. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

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Electrical
Filed Oct 27, 2002

I CAME TO A STOP AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT AND AS I DID SO ALL ELECTRICAL POWER WENT OUT. NO ELECTRIC, NO BRAKE ASSIST. IT TOOK OVER 50 FEET FOR ME TO GET THE MOTOR HOMR TO A STOP. I SLOWLY CAME TO A STOP IN THE INTERSECTION ON A RED LIGHT, THANK GOD THERE WAS LIGHT TRAFFIC. I THEN TRIED STARTING THE MOTOR AND IT DID. AT THE NEXT LIGHT IT DID THE SAME THING. I WAS ABLE TO GET THE VEHICLE STARTED AGAIN AND IT DIED OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NEXT BLOCK. ON REPAIR IT WAS FOUND OUT THAT THE ALTERNATOR WAS NOT PRODUCING ENOUGH ELECTIC AND I WAS RUNNING ON THE BATTERY! WHEN I PUT ON THE BRAKES THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH ELECTRIC TO ACTIVATE THE ASSIST, CAUSING AN OVERLOAD AND KILLING THE SYSTEM. IF I HAD TRIED TO STOP ON THE HIGHWAY AND THIS HAPPENED IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN ME A MILE TO STOP. ALSO WITH THE MOTOR SHUT DOWN THERE WAS NO POWER STEERING EITHER. ON THE HIGHWAY THIS COULD HAVE BEEN FATAL. IN THE CITY IT JUST SCAREN THE HECK OUT OF US. THE CONFIGURATION OF THE ELECTRIC ASSIST IS A HAZARD IN THE SITUATION!!! DT

NHTSA ID
768951

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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