Cadillac Fleetwood, Caprice, Impala, Roadmaster. Published by Transport Canada as 1996025 on 12 February 1996. System: Suspension.
What the notice says Note: includes caprice police sedans, taxi cabs and special service wagons; fleetwood hearse and limousine.
the lower control arm ball joint attachment may be loose. this condition can cause the lower control arm ball joint to loosen, fatigue and separate from the front suspension knuckle. if separation were to occur …
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
- 1996025
- Recall date
- 12 February 1996
- Make
- Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick
- Models
- Fleetwood, Caprice, Impala, Roadmaster
- Model years
- 1995 to 1996
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Suspension
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 1,942
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
NOTE: INCLUDES CAPRICE POLICE SEDANS, TAXI CABS AND SPECIAL SERVICE WAGONS; FLEETWOOD HEARSE AND LIMOUSINE.
THE LOWER CONTROL ARM BALL JOINT ATTACHMENT MAY BE LOOSE. THIS CONDITION CAN CAUSE THE LOWER CONTROL ARM BALL JOINT TO LOOSEN, FATIGUE AND SEPARATE FROM THE FRONT SUSPENSION KNUCKLE. IF SEPARATION WERE TO OCCUR WITH THE VEHICLE IN MOTION, LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL COULD OCCUR, WHICH COULD RESULT IN A VEHICLE CRASH.
CORRECTION: FRONT LOWER CONTROL ARM BALL JOINT ATTACHMENT NUTS WILL BE INSPECTED FOR PROPER TORQUE. IF THE BALL JOINT HAS LOOSENED FROM THE KNUCKLE, BOTH THE BALL JOINT AND KNUCKLE WILL BE REPLACED.
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 1996025.
Cadillac elsewhere in this register
Cadillac is named on 228 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1996141 · 16 September 1996 · Eldorado, Deville, Seville · Fuel System
- 1996205 · 13 December 1996 · Fleetwood, Roadmaster, Caprice · Suspension
- 1995230 · 18 December 1995 · Seville, Eldorado · Electrical
- 1995224 · 12 December 1995 · Deville · Structure
- 1995211 · 29 November 1995 · Roadmaster, Fleetwood, Caprice · Structure
- 1995101 · 16 June 1995 · Eldorado, Toronado, Riviera · Seats And Restraints
- 1995074 · 24 April 1995 · Roadmaster, Fleetwood, Caprice · Engine
- 1997091 · 28 April 1997 · Eldorado, Seville, Deville · Brakes
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.
- 1996026 · 12 February 1996 · Caprice · Suspension
- 1996033 · 16 February 1996 · Thundercat (yzf600r) · Suspension
- 1996038 · 22 February 1996 · Rm250t, Rm125t · Suspension
- 1996041 · 29 February 1996 · Fe, Wah, Wca · Suspension
- 1996057 · 10 April 1996 · Range Rover · Suspension
- 1996069 · 6 May 1996 · C Series, K Series · Suspension
Reading this against the source
This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.
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 notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Indian Roadmaster, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Cadillac: 228 in the register, and 209 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1996.
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