Consumer Complaint Detail

PONTIAC / GRAND AM / 1998

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Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 998081778 Incident Date: May, 14 1998
Consumer's City: FORT BRAGG Consumer's State: CA
Vehicle Transmission Type: Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC
Model Name: GRAND AM Model Year: 1998
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Vehicle speed control
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: 1G2NE52T1WM Date added to File: May, 23 2021
Date Complaint Received: Mar, 31 1999 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Mar, 31 1998
Was Original Owner: Yes Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 0 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: After driving the car and letting sit from 30 min to 4 hours(at various temps) and restarting going@10 mph, the cars rpms fluctuate briefly and then accelerate dramatically to 4000 rpm luckely, i put it into netural or my speed keeps increasing, when put into neutral, the rpm's increased to 4,000 and stays until the gas is pressed firmly then it will go back to idle. pressing the brake doesn't stop this. a couple of times the rpms fluctuated then the car died instead of accelerating. *ak