Buick Regal, El Camino, Monte Carlo, Century, Camaro, C Series. Published by Transport Canada as 1979104 on 14 July 1979. System: Electrical.
What the notice says On certain vehicles equipped with cruise control. The brake stop light and cruise control switch may be assembled with incorrect lubrication on the actuating plunger. This results in adverse wear between the internal contacts of the switch which can cause the plunger to stick and cause the rear brake stop lights to …
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Buick REGAL in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Buick REGAL is named on 15 American notices and 7 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The Israeli register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1979104
- Recall date
- 14 July 1979
- Make
- Buick, Chevrolet, GMC, Pontiac
- Models
- Regal, El Camino, Monte Carlo, Century, Camaro, C Series, Caprice, Impala, G Series, Malibu, K Series, Firebird, Lesabre, Electra
- Model years
- 1979
- Vehicle class
- Light Truck & Van
- System
- Electrical
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 577
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles equipped with cruise control. The brake stop light and cruise control switch may be assembled with incorrect lubrication on the actuating plunger. This results in adverse wear between the internal contacts of the switch which can cause the plunger to stick and cause the rear brake stop lights to become inoperative and if the cruise control is actuated, to stay electrically engaged. Without stop light operation, a vehicle approaching from the rear would not be aware that the brake was being applied. If the cruise control would not disengage through brake pedal operation vehicle sp
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1979104.
Buick elsewhere in this register
Buick is named on 326 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1979103 · 12 July 1979 · Sunbird, Skyhawk, Monza · Not Entered
- 1979123 · 18 July 1979 · Regal, Lemans, Cutlass · Not Entered
- 1979117 · 10 July 1979 · Riviera · Not Entered
- 1979115 · 5 July 1979 · Estate Wagon, Safari, Grand Safari · Not Entered
- 1979116 · 5 July 1979 · Sunbird, Skyhawk · Not Entered
- 1979158 · 20 September 1979 · Regal, Century · Not Entered
- 1979161 · 26 September 1979 · Skylark, Phoenix, Omega · Not Entered
- 1979162 · 26 September 1979 · Skylark, Omega, Phoenix · Not Entered
The same system: Electrical
686 notices in this register name Electrical. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1979211 · 27 December 1979 · CB750 · Electrical
- 1978023 · 4 May 1978 · 3 Series · Electrical
- 1981110 · 4 November 1981 · Conventional School Bus, Conventional Non-School Bus · Electrical
- 1983020 · 22 February 1982 · GL, GLF, DL · Electrical
- 1982033 · 23 March 1982 · L Series · Electrical
- 1983005 · 12 January 1983 · Brat, GLF, Standard · Electrical
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Buick Regal, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Buick: 326 in the register, and 209 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1979.
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