Buick Skylark, Grand Am, Achieva. Published by Transport Canada as 2000276 on 27 November 2000. System: Electrical.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the electrical current through the ignition switch is above design capacity. Over time, this excessive current damages the ignition switch and may result in a fire in the vicinity of the steering column ignition switch which could spread to other parts of the vehicle's interior. Correction: …
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
- 2000276
- Recall date
- 27 November 2000
- Make
- Buick, Pontiac, Oldsmobile
- Models
- Skylark, Grand Am, Achieva
- Model years
- 1994 to 1995
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Electrical
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 72,652
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the electrical current through the ignition switch is above design capacity. Over time, this excessive current damages the ignition switch and may result in a fire in the vicinity of the steering column ignition switch which could spread to other parts of the vehicle's interior. Correction: Dealers will install a relay kit and, if necessary, replace the ignition switch and steering column tilt lever.
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 2000276.
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.
- 2000271 · 17 November 2000 · Park Avenue · Visual System
- 2000196 · 15 September 2000 · Impala, Grand Prix, Jimmy · Seats And Restraints
- 2000141 · 27 June 2000 · Cutlass Supreme, Regal · Seats And Restraints
- 2000139 · 20 June 2000 · Century, Regal, Lumina Car · Fuel System
- 2000124 · 31 May 2000 · Lumina Car, Regal, Century · Brakes
- 2000108 · 28 April 2000 · Park Avenue · Seats And Restraints
- 2000104 · 17 April 2000 · Lesabre, Bonneville, Seville · Brakes
- 2000054 · 8 March 2000 · Riviera, Aurora · Seats And Restraints
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.
- 2000302 · 29 December 2000 · Focus · Electrical
- 2000228 · 16 October 2000 · Super Duty · Electrical
- 2000122 · 19 May 2000 · S Class, CL Class · Electrical
- 2000117 · 16 May 2000 · Protege · Electrical
- 2000012 · 12 January 2000 · TC/2000 Non-School Bus, TC/2000 School Bus · Electrical
- 2001029 · 8 February 2001 · V, Vi · 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 311 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2000.
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