Hyundai Excel. Published by Transport Canada as 1988089 on 24 June 1988. System: Steering.
What the notice says Note: 5 door models only.
the lower steering column u-joint (coupler) bolt may have insufficient torque and could loosen. this could result in loss of steering and a vehicle crash without prior warning.
correction: lower steering column coupler bolt will be replaced and torqued.
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.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1988089
- Recall date
- 24 June 1988
- Make
- Hyundai
- Models
- Excel
- Model years
- 1986
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Steering
- Raised as
- Safety TC
- Vehicles affected
- 10,546
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
NOTE: 5 DOOR MODELS ONLY.
THE LOWER STEERING COLUMN U-JOINT (COUPLER) BOLT MAY HAVE INSUFFICIENT TORQUE AND COULD LOOSEN. THIS COULD RESULT IN LOSS OF STEERING AND A VEHICLE CRASH WITHOUT PRIOR WARNING.
CORRECTION: LOWER STEERING COLUMN COUPLER BOLT WILL BE REPLACED AND TORQUED.
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 1988089.
Hyundai elsewhere in this register
Hyundai is named on 270 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1988158 · 16 November 1988 · Stellar · Heater And Defroster
- 1987127 · 27 November 1987 · Excel · Brakes
- 1987041 · 23 April 1987 · Pony · Structure
- 1990031 · 20 February 1990 · Sonata · Structure
- 1986082 · 5 August 1986 · Stellar · Brakes
- 1990072 · 18 May 1990 · Excel · Suspension
- 1990073 · 18 May 1990 · Pony · Heater And Defroster
- 1986044 · 18 April 1986 · Excel · Fuel System
The same system: Steering
582 notices in this register name Steering. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1988115 · 5 August 1988 · Conventional · Steering
- 1988116 · 5 August 1988 · Midliner · Steering
- 1988117 · 5 August 1988 · RM, Rd, DMM · Steering
- 1988120 · 17 August 1988 · Conventional, Flc11264, FLC112 · Steering
- 1988121 · 18 August 1988 · C.o.e., Conventional · Steering
- 1988122 · 19 August 1988 · Conventional · Steering
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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 Hyundai: 270 in the register, and 174 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1988.
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