Owner-reported complaints naming the engine system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming the engine itself — including stalling, misfires, oil consumption, cooling and internal engine components. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1991 Isuzu Trooper submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 13 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
VEHICLE'S ENGINE COMPARTMENT CAUGHT ON FIRE.*MR CONSUMER WAS AT A TOLL BOTH WHEN SHE NOTICED SMOKE COMING FROM THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT. SHE PULL OVER INTO THE EMPLOYEE PARKING LOT AND EXITED THE VEHICLE WITH THREE OTHER OCCUPANTS. THE FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. THERE WERE NO INJURIES. *PH *NLM
NO SUMMARY LISTED FOR ABOVE VEHICLE. *AK
THE TROOPER HAD AN OIL LEAK AND THE ENGINE WENT ON FIRE. MY CAR IS TOTALED. I HAVE BEEN RESEARCHING AND SEE A PROBLEM WITH THIS MODEL AND YEAR. HELP! I WANT ISUZU TO PAY FOR MY LOSE EVEN IF I WAS THE SECOND OWNER OR BOB CIASULLI USED CARS FOR SELLING ME THIS CAR WHICH HAD A RECALL ON AND PUT MYSELF AND MY 5 YEAR OLD SON IN DANGER.
ENGINE OIL COOLER HOSE TOUCHED EXHAUST MANIFOLD AND MELTED HOSE.
WHILE DRIVING VEHICLE CAUGHT ON FIRE IN THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT. CAUSE UNKNOWN. PLEASE PROVIDE DETAILS. *AK
ENGINE FIRE (OHIO TRAFFIC CRASH REPORT).
ENGINE FIRE (OHIO CRASH REPORT).
CONSUMER STATES THAT THERE IS A GENERAL RECALL ON THE ENGINE COOLING SYSTEM. SHE CONTACTED THE MANUFACTURER AND WAS INFORMED THAT THE TRUCK WAS NOT INCLUDED UNDER THE RECALL . OWNER THINKS THAT VEHICLE SHOULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN THE RECALL. *AK
THE ENGINE IS LEAKING COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF OIL BECAUSE THE RINGS ARE NOT SEATED.
ENGINE HAS CAUGHT ON FIRE TWICE WHILE TRAVELING AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS.
VEHICLE FIRE.
UNDER HOOD FIRE, CAUSE UNKNOWN. *AK CONSUMER STATES THERE WAS NO COLLSION, NO WARNING, LIGHTS ON THE PANEL WERE ACTIVATED AND THERE WAS NO SUDDEN ACCELERATION.DECELERATION NOTICED, NO NOISES, CONSUMER WAS AT STOP LIGHT AND NOTICED BLACK SMOK FROM THE ENGINE AND HE PROMPTLY TURNED OFF ENGINE AND RELEASED THE HOOD, CONSUMER OBSERVED THE FIRE IN ITS ENTIRETY, STARTING FROM THE ENGINE MOVING TO THE BACK OF THE VEHICLE PRIOR TO INCIDENT CONSUMER HAD NUMEROUS PROBLEMS RIGHT REAR BUMPER, BRAKE LIGHTS WERE NOT WORKING FUSES HAD TO BE REPLACED, REAR ARM REST, ENTIRE HYDRALIC SYSTEM NEEDED TO BE REPLACED ROTORS WARPED, EXHAUST WAS SLIGHTLY BENT, MOUNTS WERE BALANCED, BACK SEAT SLIDE FOWARD WHEN BRAKES ARE BEING APPLIED, RIGHT HEAD LIGHT INOPERABLE, SIDE TURN SIGNAL INOPERABLE, FUEL INJECTION SERVICED..*JB
ENGINE SEIZED WHILE DRIVING THE VEHICLE, OIL PUMP IS NOT PUMPING SUFFICIENT OIL INTO ENGINE. TT
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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