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1996 Gulf Stream Seahawk 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 Feb 27, 2006
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 Jun 22, 2001

What this page shows

Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 1996 Gulf Stream Seahawk. 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

Showing 1–2 of 2

Tires & wheels
Filed Feb 27, 2006

DT*: THE CONTACT STATED WHILE DRIVING 70 MPH THE RIGHT REAR TIRE BLEW OUT. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER FOR INSPECTION. UPON INSPECTION, THE DEALER REPLACED THE TIRE. EIGHT MONTHS LATER, THE TIRE ON THE RIGHT FRONT ALSO BLEW WHILE DRIVING 70 MPH. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER FOR INSPECTION. UPON INSPECTION, THE DEALER REPLACED THE TIRE AND ANOTHER TIRE THAT WAS NOTICED WITH TREAD SEPARATION. SIX MONTHS LATER, THE RIGHT REAR TIRE WAS NOTICED AGAIN WITH TREAD SEPARATION AND WAS REPLACED BY THE DEALER. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT ALERTED.

NHTSA ID
10151339
Incident
Nov 1, 2004
Other / unspecifiedTires & wheels
Filed Jun 22, 2001

ALL WHEELS OF THE TRAILER CRACKED AND TIRES BLEW OUT SEVERAL TIMES, THE CONSUMER SAYS THAT THE WHEELS AND TIRES WERE NOT CORRECT SIZE TO CARY 10,000 LB TRAILER. THE MANUFACTURER BLAMES THE TIRE BUT THE CONSUMER BELIEVED THE SIZE OF THE WHEELS AND TIRES WERE THE CAUSE. *YH

NHTSA ID
561746

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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