Buick Park Avenue, Ninety-Eight, Fleetwood, Deville, Eighty-Eight, Bonneville. Published by Transport Canada as 1994051 on 14 March 1994. System: Powertrain.
What the notice says The upper transaxle oil cooler hose could pull out of the crimped coupling at the transaxle end of the line assembly. if this coupling were to separate, transaxle oil would spill into the engine compartment and, in the presence of an ignition source, a fire could occur.
correction: dealers will install a new upper …
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Buick PARK AVENUE in the other registers
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The Israeli register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1994051
- Recall date
- 14 March 1994
- Make
- Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Pontiac
- Models
- Park Avenue, Ninety-Eight, Fleetwood, Deville, Eighty-Eight, Bonneville, Lesabre
- Model years
- 1991 to 1993
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Powertrain
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 71,790
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
THE UPPER TRANSAXLE OIL COOLER HOSE COULD PULL OUT OF THE CRIMPED COUPLING AT THE TRANSAXLE END OF THE LINE ASSEMBLY. IF THIS COUPLING WERE TO SEPARATE, TRANSAXLE OIL WOULD SPILL INTO THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT AND, IN THE PRESENCE OF AN IGNITION SOURCE, A FIRE COULD OCCUR.
CORRECTION: DEALERS WILL INSTALL A NEW UPPER TRANSAXLE OIL COOLER LINE ON ALL INVOLVED 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 1994051.
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.
- 1994064 · 25 March 1994 · Roadmaster, Fleetwood Brougham, Caprice · Engine
- 1994042 · 1 March 1994 · Grand Prix, Regal, Cutlass Supreme · Suspension
- 1994015 · 2 February 1994 · Century, Ciera · Engine
- 1994085 · 2 May 1994 · Ciera, Century · Structure
- 1994117 · 20 July 1994 · Achieva, Skylark, Grand Am · Fuel System
- 1994141 · 7 September 1994 · Century, Ciera · Electrical
- 1994151 · 4 October 1994 · Century, Ciera · Suspension
- 1994170 · 3 November 1994 · Fleetwood, Roadmaster, Caprice · Fuel System
The same system: Powertrain
823 notices in this register name Powertrain. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1994067 · 29 March 1994 · XT6, Loyale, Legacy · Powertrain
- 1994069 · 7 April 1994 · Civic, Civic Del Sol, Integra · Powertrain
- 1994018 · 3 February 1994 · Fla, FLD, FLB · Powertrain
- 1994003 · 10 January 1994 · Zx1100 · Powertrain
- 1994103 · 3 June 1994 · T Series · Powertrain
- 1994167 · 2 November 1994 · SC, SL · Powertrain
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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 202 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1994.
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