Oldsmobile Delta 88. Published by Transport Canada as 1986104 on 26 September 1986. System: Suspension.
What the notice says The left and rear lower control arm ball joint stud to knuckle attachment may be inadequately tightened. this could allow the ball joint stud to loosen at the knuckle attachment. a loose ball joint stud could eventually break and separate from the knuckle. this could result in loss of vehicle control and a crash …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1986104
- Recall date
- 26 September 1986
- Make
- Oldsmobile
- Models
- Delta 88
- Model years
- 1986
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Suspension
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 2,955
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
THE LEFT AND REAR LOWER CONTROL ARM BALL JOINT STUD TO KNUCKLE ATTACHMENT MAY BE INADEQUATELY TIGHTENED. THIS COULD ALLOW THE BALL JOINT STUD TO LOOSEN AT THE KNUCKLE ATTACHMENT. A LOOSE BALL JOINT STUD COULD EVENTUALLY BREAK AND SEPARATE FROM THE KNUCKLE. THIS COULD RESULT IN LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL AND A CRASH WITHOUT PRIOR WARNING.
CORRECTION: DEALERS WILL REPLACE AND TIGHTEN THE LEFT AND RIGHT REAR LOWER CONTROL ARM BALL JOINT STUD NUTS AND, IF NECESSARY, REPLACE THE KNUCKLE(S).
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 1986104.
Oldsmobile elsewhere in this register
Oldsmobile is named on 204 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1986102 · 15 September 1986 · Firenza · Not Entered
- 1986097 · 29 August 1986 · Calais · Not Entered
- 1986123 · 5 November 1986 · Electra, Ninety-Eight · Steering
- 1986077 · 16 July 1986 · Regal, Cutlass Supreme · Seats And Restraints
- 1986056 · 28 May 1986 · Lemans, Cutlass Supreme, Cutlass · Brakes
- 1986055 · 22 May 1986 · Firenza · Lights And Instruments
- 1986037 · 7 April 1986 · Ciera · Emissions
- 1986026 · 20 February 1986 · Somerset, Calais, Grand Am · Not Entered
The same system: Suspension
746 notices in this register name Suspension. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1986122 · 5 November 1986 · W900, Hustler, K100 · Suspension
- 1986126 · 13 November 1986 · Trailer · Suspension
- 1986069 · 20 June 1986 · Kz1000 · Suspension
- 1986050 · 5 May 1986 · Yj · Suspension
- 1986048 · 29 April 1986 · Trailer · Suspension
- 1987005 · 13 January 1987 · Truck · Suspension
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 an Oldsmobile: 204 in the register, and 147 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1986.
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