Consumer Complaint Detail

OLDSMOBILE / 88 / 1998

Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 004263096	Incident Date: Feb, 12 2004
Consumer's City: PITTSBURGH	Consumer's State: PA
Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO	Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC
Model Name: 88	Model Year: 1998
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No	Component's Description: Fuel system, gasoline:fuel injection system
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No	Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: 1G3HN52K6W4	Date added to File: May, 25 2021
Date Complaint Received: Mar, 03 2004	Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No	Purchase Date: Sep, 09 1998
Was Original Owner: No	Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 6	Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: -	Description of the Complaints: My 1998 olds 88 backfired upon starting and blew up the plastic intake manifold. the force of the explosion destroyed the engine cover and the fuel rail. the engine is the 3800 v6. the vehicle has 21,000 miles but was older than 3yrs, thus it was out of warranty. because gm would not offer any financial assistance for the repair, i had it repaired myself. the explosion was caused by a leaking fuel pressure regulator that vented back the intake manifold thru a vacuum line. this situation looks to be exactly like a recall on very similar buick cars. it was nhtsa recall # 03v473000 on nov 12th 2003. i believe the recall should be extended to cover vehicles like mine.