Saab 99, 900 Turbo. Published by Transport Canada as 1983067 on 4 August 1983. System: Not Entered.
What the notice says Due to the specific attachment of the front exhaust pipe bracket at the rear differential cover, there is a risk of gradual loss of transmission oil which may lead to transmission lock up unless the transmission oil level is checked frequently.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Saab 99 in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Saab 99 is named on 12 British notices and 17 Japanese. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The British register
The Japanese 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
- 1983067
- Recall date
- 4 August 1983
- Make
- Saab
- Models
- 99, 900 Turbo
- Model years
- 1978 to 1980
- Vehicle class
- Car
- Vehicles affected
- 317
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
DUE TO THE SPECIFIC ATTACHMENT OF THE FRONT EXHAUST PIPE BRACKET AT THE REAR DIFFERENTIAL COVER, THERE IS A RISK OF GRADUAL LOSS OF TRANSMISSION OIL WHICH MAY LEAD TO TRANSMISSION LOCK UP UNLESS THE TRANSMISSION OIL LEVEL IS CHECKED FREQUENTLY.
Transport Canada recorded this notice in capitals, as its system did for many years. It is reproduced here exactly as published.
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 1983067.
Saab elsewhere in this register
Saab is named on 70 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1984012 · 25 January 1984 · Turbo · Not Entered
- 1984028 · 27 February 1984 · 900 · Not Entered
- 1984039 · 19 March 1984 · 900 · Not Entered
- 1981114 · 7 December 1981 · 900 · Not Entered
- 1985045 · 23 April 1985 · 900 · Not Entered
- 1985060 · 14 May 1985 · 900 · Not Entered
- 1980125 · 1 October 1980 · 900, 99 · Not Entered
- 1986121 · 27 October 1986 · 9000 · Electrical
The same system: Not Entered
882 notices in this register name Not Entered. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1983058 · 17 June 1983 · 352 · Not Entered
- 1983055 · 14 June 1983 · 359 · Not Entered
- 1983054 · 13 June 1983 · Bronco · Not Entered
- 1983051 · 31 May 1983 · KB210 Hatchback · Not Entered
- 1983049 · 18 May 1983 · Trailer · Not Entered
- 1983047 · 13 May 1983 · F-250, F-350 · Not Entered
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 register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Saab: 70 in the register, and 122 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1983.
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