Pontiac Bonneville. Published by Transport Canada as 1987069 on 3 July 1987. System: Lights And Instruments.
What the notice says On vehicles with foglamps, the headlamp circuit breaker may overheat at low beam resulting in an intermittent headlamp circuit. an intermittent circuit could cause the headlamps and foglamps to suddenly go out. under nighttime or severe weather conditions, this could reduce visibility and result in a vehicle crash …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1987069
- Recall date
- 3 July 1987
- Make
- Pontiac
- Models
- Bonneville
- Model years
- 1987
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Lights And Instruments
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 403
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
ON VEHICLES WITH FOGLAMPS, THE HEADLAMP CIRCUIT BREAKER MAY OVERHEAT AT LOW BEAM RESULTING IN AN INTERMITTENT HEADLAMP CIRCUIT. AN INTERMITTENT CIRCUIT COULD CAUSE THE HEADLAMPS AND FOGLAMPS TO SUDDENLY GO OUT. UNDER NIGHTTIME OR SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS, THIS COULD REDUCE VISIBILITY AND RESULT IN A VEHICLE CRASH WITHOUT PRIOR WARNING.
CORRECTION: WIRING WILL BE REVISED FOR THE FORWARD LAMP CIRCUIT ON SUSPECT VEHICLES.
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 1987069.
Pontiac elsewhere in this register
Pontiac is named on 332 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1987065 · 22 June 1987 · 6000 · Brakes
- 1987082 · 7 August 1987 · Somerset, Grand Am, Calais · Structure
- 1987096 · 26 August 1987 · Bonneville, Ninety-Eight, Delta 88 · Electrical
- 1987053 · 25 May 1987 · Skyhawk, Sunbird, Cavalier · Structure
- 1987051 · 21 May 1987 · Spectrum, Sunburst · Fuel System
- 1987046 · 6 May 1987 · Beretta, Corsica, Tempest · Structure
- 1987037 · 7 April 1987 · Grand Prix · Electrical
- 1987106 · 9 October 1987 · Monte Carlo, Firebird, Grand Prix · Emissions
The same system: Lights And Instruments
900 notices in this register name Lights And Instruments. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1987110 · 19 October 1987 · Trailer · Lights And Instruments
- 1987018 · 13 February 1987 · Firetruck · Lights And Instruments
- 1986133 · 26 November 1986 · Semi-Trailer · Lights And Instruments
- 1986119 · 23 October 1986 · Sedan · Lights And Instruments
- 1986064 · 11 June 1986 · Travel Trailer · Lights And Instruments
- 1986063 · 9 June 1986 · Lebaron · Lights And Instruments
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 Pontiac: 332 in the register, and 142 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1987.
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