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 1996 Oldsmobile Bravada submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 11 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
MY VEHICLE WILL NOT START HAVING TROUBLE GETTING ENGINE TO START I WAS AT A GAS STATION WHEN IT FIRST HAPPENED THEN MANAGED TO START IT MADE IT HOME THEN DIED AT MY HOUSE AND HAS NOT MOVED SINCE.
ENGINE OVERHEATING UD-LIKE COOLANT (DEX-COOL). *AK
THE VEHICLE BEGAN OVERHEATING. THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT APPEARED. IT WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER AND SAID THAT THE COOLANT BECAME MUDDY AND THAT HAPPENS A LOT WHEN THE COOLANT GETS A LITTLE LOW. THE THERMOSTAT WAS REPLACED ALONG WITH A FLUSH AND FILL ON THE RADIATOR AND COOLING SYSTEM. THE DEALER WANTED TO PUT THE SAME COOLANT IN THE RADIATOR AND THIS WAS UNUSUAL TO ME. I HAD THEM PUT IN PRESTON AND HAD NO PROBLEMS SINCE. *LA
DRIVER STOPPED AT TOLL BOOTH TO PAY TOLL AND SAW SMOKE COMING FROM REAR OF VEHICLE. CONSUMER GOT OUT OF VEHICLE TO INVESTIGATE WHERE THE SMOKE WAS COMING FROM, AND DETERMINED THAT VEHICLE CAUGHT ON FIRE FROM THE EXHAUST.DRIVER HAD VEHICLE TOWED TO THE DEALERSHIP.*AK
CONSUMER STATES THAT THERE IS OIL LEAKING ONTO THE BRAKES WHICH IS CAUSING THE CONSUMER TO HAVE TROUBLE STOPPING BECAUSE THE BRAKES WILL BECOME SLIPPERY. CONTACTED DEALER AND THE DEALER IS NOT WILLING TO DO ANYTHING. MR
WHILE DRIVING, VEHICLE WOULD STALL, DEALER REPLACED THE FUEL FILTER, COIL AND MODULE, FUEL PUMP, CRANK SENSOR AND IGNITION SWITCH, HOWEVER PROBLEM CONTINUED, CONSUMER HAS SINCE TRADED VEHICLE IN FOR A 2002 BRAVADA. *SLC
VEHICLE OVERHEATED AND TEMPERATURE GAUGE WENT TO THE TOP, ENGINE BEGAN TO MAKE NOISES, DEALER FOUND THAT RADIATOR WAS FULL OF BAD COOLANT AND VERY MUDDY, THE MUD WAS CLOGGING THE RADIATOR WHICH CAUSED LOSS OF COOLANT FLOW AND OVERHEATED CONDITION, THE RADIATOR WAS REPLACED, FLUSHED ENGINE BLOCK AND HEATER CORE OF MUDDY COOLANT, AND THERMOSTAT AND RADIATOR CAP WAS REPLACED.*JB
BRAKE PEDAL IS EXTREMELY HARD TO PRESS, IT GOES LOW TO THE FLOOR AND CAUSES EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE. PROBLEM GETS BETTER WHEN THEY PUT NEW PADS ON. THEN 5,000 TO 8,000 MILES IT HAPPENS ALL OVER AGAIN.*AK MECHANIC FOUND ROTORS TO BE HARD THEY WERE REMOVED AND CLEANED AND READJUSTED AND ALSO CLEANED REAR DRUMS, ALSO CONSUMER STATES A LIGHT WAS ON, OXYGEN SENSOR WAS REPLACED. *JB
ABS BRAKES FAILED. ALSO REPLACED FRONT BRAKE ROTORS/CALIPERS AND ENGINE FAN BELT. *AK
BRAKES FAILED.
ENGINE LEAKS OIL SINCE DELIVERY.
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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