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1976 Oldsmobile 88 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 3, 2001
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 Nov 25, 1996

What this page shows

Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 1976 Oldsmobile 88. 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

Brakes
Filed Oct 3, 2001

REAR WHEEL CYLINDERS WERE DEFECTIVE, CYLINDERS HAVE BEEN REPLACED TWICE WITHIN 40000 MILES. CYLINDER WEARS DOWN EASILY. *AK

NHTSA ID
897305
Incident
Oct 3, 2001
Powertrain (other)
Filed Nov 25, 1996

BOUGHT VEHICLE ASSUMING IT HAD 90,000 MILES, TOOK VEHICLE IN FOR INSPECTION AND DISCOVERED VEHICLE HAD 104,000. THE DEALER SAID THAT THE ODOMETER HAD BEEN TAMPERED WITH. *AK

NHTSA ID
805528
Incident
Oct 24, 1996

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.

Data sources

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