| Components - Details | |
|---|---|
| NHTSA Complaint Number: 999094920 | Incident Date: Nov, 04 1999 |
| Consumer's City: KISSIMMEE | Consumer's State: FL |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: | Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC |
| Model Name: REATTA | Model Year: 1990 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Service brakes, hydraulic:antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Nov, 20 1999 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: May, 31 1992 |
| Was Original Owner: No | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 0 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: I'm writing a second time about this problem because i read the complaints section of your website and found two more incidents suspiciously similar to my own. i also wrote about it on the buick reatta discussion page on the internet and one other person wrote in to say he experienced this problem. since this is a catastropic failure of the brake system with no warning, i figure you guys would want to know about it. i think that this is not specific to reattas but would affect every buick/gm vehicle with the same electronically controlled abs system. my mechanic said that the failure was due to a bad switch that controls the electric pump. the pump burned out. there should've been a dashboard warning about the problem when only the switch was burned out, but the sensor reading the switch had also failed!!! that left me with no brakes and no warning. there was no physical change in how the brakes felt until the total failure of the system!!! since there were only about 4,000 reattas produced in 1990, it seems to me that the incidence of this problem is way too high to be ignored. if other buicks and gm vehicles have the same system, you are looking at a potentially huge problem out there. please do something. *ak |
