1999 Oldsmobile Intrigue defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1999 Oldsmobile Intrigue. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• ENGINE COMPARTMENT FIRES
  Engineering Analysis EA02030 · opened Oct 22, 2002 · closed Mar 9, 2004 · led to recall 04V090000

  Ea02-030 is closed with gmea02-030 is closed with gm?s actions in 03v-473 and 04v-090 recalling approximately 529,000 my 1998-99 c- and h-body vehicles equipped with defective fuel pressure regulators.these vehicles were equipped with plastic intake manifolds that are unable to contain pressures that occur in some back…

• HEADLAMPS DIM/FLICKER
  Preliminary Evaluation PE02005 · opened Jan 18, 2002 · closed Apr 15, 2002
• REAR SHOULDER BELT MALFUNCTION
  Engineering Analysis EA99019 · opened Jul 7, 1999 · closed Feb 22, 2000 · led to recall 00V044000

  The alleged defect concerns two major symptoms:failure to retract webbing and inability to extend the webbinng for use. The root cause of these symptoms is the design of the trim bezel through which the sebbing passes. Built into the rear package shelf, the bezel includes a vertical slot to facilitate vehicle assembly.…