Pontiac Sunfire, Cavalier. Published by Transport Canada as 1999155 on 19 August 1999. System: Lights And Instruments.
What the notice says Certain vehicles may not comply with the requirements of CMVSS 101 - Control Location and Identification. The instrument panel backlighting may not function after adjusting the interior light intensity. If the instrument panel is not lit at night, the driver may not be able to see the controls and displays. …
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
- 1999155
- Recall date
- 19 August 1999
- Make
- Pontiac, Chevrolet
- Models
- Sunfire, Cavalier
- Model years
- 2000
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Lights And Instruments
- Raised as
- Compliance MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 1,423
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain vehicles may not comply with the requirements of CMVSS 101 - Control Location and Identification. The instrument panel backlighting may not function after adjusting the interior light intensity. If the instrument panel is not lit at night, the driver may not be able to see the controls and displays. Correction: Dealers will test the body control module (BCM) for the condition, and if necessary, replace the BCM.
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 1999155.
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.
- 1999128 · 28 June 1999 · Bonneville, Lesabre, Eighty-Eight · Emissions
- 1999180 · 20 October 1999 · Montana, Silhouette, Venture · Fuel System
- 1999209 · 15 November 1999 · Grand Prix · Seats And Restraints
- 1999083 · 12 May 1999 · Lumina Car, Monte Carlo, Grand Prix · Engine
- 1999080 · 6 May 1999 · Lesabre, Eighty-Eight, Bonneville · Powertrain
- 1999066 · 16 April 1999 · Bonneville · Suspension
- 1999067 · 16 April 1999 · Silhouette, Venture, Transport · Steering
- 1999060 · 15 April 1999 · Grand Am, Alero · Seats And Restraints
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.
- 1999149 · 10 August 1999 · Empress, Signature · Lights And Instruments
- 1999165 · 17 September 1999 · LS · Lights And Instruments
- 1999173 · 28 September 1999 · XC · Lights And Instruments
- 1999178 · 19 October 1999 · Ranger, Explorer · Lights And Instruments
- 1999201 · 29 October 1999 · B Series · Lights And Instruments
- 1999202 · 29 October 1999 · Tracker · 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 240 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1999.
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