Buick Skylark, Grand Am, Calais. Published by Transport Canada as 1992032 on 24 March 1992. System: Electrical.
What the notice says On vehicles with power windows, moisture may enter the express-down electronic control module and could cause phantom window operation in which the window may cycle without operator input and sometimes remain down. the module may eventually fail by overheating, which could result in a fire in the door …
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
- 1992032
- Recall date
- 24 March 1992
- Make
- Buick, Pontiac, Oldsmobile
- Models
- Skylark, Grand Am, Calais
- Model years
- 1991
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Electrical
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 1,225
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
ON VEHICLES WITH POWER WINDOWS, MOISTURE MAY ENTER THE EXPRESS-DOWN ELECTRONIC CONTROL MODULE AND COULD CAUSE PHANTOM WINDOW OPERATION IN WHICH THE WINDOW MAY CYCLE WITHOUT OPERATOR INPUT AND SOMETIMES REMAIN DOWN. THE MODULE MAY EVENTUALLY FAIL BY OVERHEATING, WHICH COULD RESULT IN A FIRE IN THE DOOR PANEL.
CORRECTION: DEALERS WILL REPLACE THE POWER WINDOW EXPRESS-DOWN ELECTRONIC CONTROL MODULE.
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 1992032.
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.
- 1992059 · 14 May 1992 · Cutlass Cruiser, Century · Electrical
- 1992002 · 9 January 1992 · Cavalier, Cutlass Supreme, Regal · Seats And Restraints
- 1992076 · 29 June 1992 · Caprice, Roadmaster · Seats And Restraints
- 1992084 · 13 July 1992 · Bonneville, Park Avenue, Ultra · Other
- 1992103 · 25 August 1992 · Ciera, Celebrity, 6000 · Electrical
- 1991174 · 12 December 1991 · Skylark, Calais, Grand Am · Engine
- 1991161 · 29 November 1991 · Century, Lumina Car, Ciera · Powertrain
- 1991147 · 31 October 1991 · Roadmaster, Caprice · Structure
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.
- 1992008 · 28 January 1992 · All American School Bus, All American Non-School Bus · Electrical
- 1992006 · 27 January 1992 · Softail (fx), Softail (fl) · Electrical
- 1992103 · 25 August 1992 · Ciera, Celebrity, 6000 · Electrical
- 1992124 · 29 September 1992 · Camry · Electrical
- 1993006 · 20 January 1993 · Softail (fl), Softail Springer (fxsts), Softail Custom (fxstc) · Electrical
- 1993022 · 1 March 1993 · 5 Series · 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 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 169 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1992.
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