Owner-reported complaints naming the heating or air-conditioning system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1996 Pontiac Grand Am submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 8 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
I BELIEVE THIS CAR TO BE A LEMON, MOST OF THE COMPLAINTS DESCRIBED BY OTHER OWNERS THIS YEAR MODEL EXIST WITH THIS VEHICLE. HOW CAN I GET HELP, NOW SOMETHING IS SMOKING UNDER THE HOOD, I BELIEVE IT TO BE ELECTRICAL BUT I DON'T HAVE THE CASH TO TAKE TO A MECHANIC. HELP. NO SAFETY DEFECT. *AK
DAYTIME RUNNING LIGHTS WERE SERVICED TWICE BECAUSE THEY WOULD FLICKER ON AND OFF WHEN THE CAR WAS BEING DRIVEN AND PARKED. AFTER I HAD THE CAR FOR ABOUT A YEAR THE AIR CONDITIONER WOULD NOT PUT OUT ANY COLD AIR. WE HAVE REFILLED THE FREEON ONCE AND THAT DIDN'T SEEM TO HELP AT ALL. THE DRIVERSIDE POWER WINDOW WILL NOT GO DOWN UNLESS ITS BEEN A VERY WARM DAY AND THE CAR HAS SAT IN THE SUN. THE FUSE WAS CHECKED AND IS OKAY.*AK
I CAN'T BELIEVE THERE ARE NO DEFECTS INVESTIGATIONS IN THE DATABASE FOR THE 1996 PONTIAC GRAND AM GIVEN THE NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS SUBMITTED CONCERNING THIS VEHICLE. WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN A DEATH? MY VEHICLE LIKE SEVERAL OTHERS I'VE READ ABOUT , STALLS AT ANY GIVEN TIME WITH THE MOST RECENT BEING ON THE INTERSTATE WHERE I HAD TO TAKE THE MEDIAN FOR SAFETY. OTHERWISE I WOULD HAVE BEEN RUN OVER BY A RIG. THIS CAR IS UNSAFE AND WAS REPORTED BY THE PREVIOUS OWNER AS SUCH; HOWEVER, NO INVESTIGATION HAS TAKEN PLACE. THE CAR JUST SHUTS OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC, LOSING ALL POWER (INCLUDING STEERING AND BRAKES). ALL THE INSTRUMENT PANEL LIGHTS COME ON AND THE CAR IS DEAD; THAT'S RIGHT DEAD. LEAVING THE OCCUPANTS IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC HOPING THEY'RE NOT GOING TO SMASHED BY SPEEDING TRAFFIC CONSIDERING NO SIGNAL WILL WORK AND NEITHER DO BRAKE LIGHTS OR ANYTHING. PEOPLE'S LIVES ARE AT STAKE HERE AND COMPLAINTS ARE BEING HANDLED BY THIS DEPARTMENT AS IF THEY COULDN'T CARE LESS. HOW COULD ANYONE WITH THEIR RIGHT MIND NOT ASSESS THIS SITUATION AS A SAFETY VIOLATION. THE REPORTS FOR THIS SAME DEFECT ARE JUST TOO NUMEROUS AND IF YOU CAN'T SEE IT THEN I NEED A HIGHER OFFICE AND THIS OFFICE NEEDS TO CLOSE SHOP! *AK
WHEN A/C IS FIRST TURNED ON THE CONSUMER SMELLS ODOR FROM A/C DURING HUMID DAYS. *ET
CONTINUALLY DISREGARDED BY DEALERSHIPS AND CORPORATE OFFICES
I DRIVE 50 MILES A DAY TO AND FROM WORK THATS THE REASON FOR HIGH MILEGE ON MY CAR. I STILL BELIEVE THIS CAR SHOULD LAST LONGER THAN ITS PAYMENTS.
TRANSMISSION FAILED. NLM
THE TEMPERATURE GAUGE AND THE AIR CONDITIONER DON'T WORK AND THE VEHICLE IS OVERHEATING, CAUSING THE CONSUMER TO HAVE PROBLEMS SEEING OUT THE WINDOW. DEALER HAS WORKED ON THE VEHICLE FOUR TIMES, AND STILL CAN'T DETERMINE THE PROBLEM. ALSO, WATER PUMP HAD TO BE REPLACED. *AK
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.
Categories with enough reports to have a page of their own
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