Buick Regal, Century, Grand Prix. Published by Transport Canada as 2000002 on 4 January 2000. System: Visual System.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the windshield wipers may stop working, usually after operation under heavy load conditions such as accumulated snow or ice, because of separation between the drive pin and crescent in the crank arm assembly. If this were to occur during driving in adverse weather conditions, driver visibility …
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Buick REGAL in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Buick REGAL is named on 15 American notices and 7 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The Israeli register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2000002
- Recall date
- 4 January 2000
- Make
- Buick, Pontiac
- Models
- Regal, Century, Grand Prix
- Model years
- 1997
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Visual System
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 12,032
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the windshield wipers may stop working, usually after operation under heavy load conditions such as accumulated snow or ice, because of separation between the drive pin and crescent in the crank arm assembly. If this were to occur during driving in adverse weather conditions, driver visibility could be reduced, which could result in a vehicle crash without prior warning. Correction: Dealers will inspect for the presence of a plastic water deflector and, if necessary, replace the wiper motor crank arm, install a park tab reinforcement and install a water deflector. Dealers will also apply additional sealing material to improve water deflection from the crank arm assembly and will install a reinforcement to improve the performance of the wiper park mechanism.
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 2000002.
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.
- 2000001 · 5 January 2000 · Lesabre · Lights And Instruments
- 2000003 · 5 January 2000 · Regal, Century · Lights And Instruments
- 2000052 · 6 March 2000 · Cutlass Supreme, Regal, Grand Prix · Steering
- 2000054 · 8 March 2000 · Riviera, Aurora · Seats And Restraints
- 2000104 · 17 April 2000 · Lesabre, Bonneville, Seville · Brakes
- 2000108 · 28 April 2000 · Park Avenue · Seats And Restraints
- 2000124 · 31 May 2000 · Lumina Car, Regal, Century · Brakes
- 2000139 · 20 June 2000 · Century, Regal, Lumina Car · Fuel System
The same system: Visual System
424 notices in this register name Visual System. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2000037 · 18 February 2000 · Windstar · Visual System
- 2000113 · 28 April 2000 · Accent · Visual System
- 2000121 · 18 May 2000 · Grand Marquis, Crown Victoria · Visual System
- 2000271 · 17 November 2000 · Park Avenue · Visual System
- 2000295 · 15 December 2000 · Tribute · Visual System
- 1999145 · 30 July 1999 · Caravan, Voyager, Grand Caravan · Visual System
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This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Buick Regal, 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 Buick: 326 in the register, and 311 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2000.
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