1997 Cadillac Eldorado defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1997 Cadillac Eldorado. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• FUEL RAIL LEAKS
  Engineering Analysis EA04003 · opened Feb 3, 2004 · closed Apr 23, 2004 · led to recall 04V110000

  On march 3, 2004, general motors notified odi that it was recalling approximately 94,000 my 1995-97 oldsmobile aurora vehicles equipped with 4.0l v8 engines (rpo l47 - vin8 c) to address concerns with underhood fuel leakage from cracked fuel rails and, in some of the vehicles, cracked fuel return lines. According to gm…

• FUEL RAIL LEAKAGE
  Preliminary Evaluation PE03050 · opened Oct 30, 2003 · closed Feb 3, 2004

  The fuel rail assemblies used in the subject vehicles were manufactured by dana.the fuel rail jumper tubes were made of monolayer nylon 12 (pa12).in model year (my) 1998, the jumper tube material was changed from pa12 to m-bond (a multi-layer ptfe/pa12).in addition, all service parts produced since the end of productio…