1998 Pontiac Montana defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1998 Pontiac Montana. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• POWER-SLIDING DOOR
  Preliminary Evaluation PE04064 · opened Sep 17, 2004 · closed Dec 22, 2004 · led to recall 04V597000

  Subject vehicles are available with an optional power sliding door.the interior handle is oriented in the vertical position in the door panel and lines up at the elbow level when the occupant is seated in the 2nd-row outboard position.if the occupant holds the interior handle in the thumb up position during power-assis…

• REAR AXLE TRAILING ARM FAILURE
  Engineering Analysis EA03005 · opened Apr 23, 2003 · closed Jan 12, 2004

  On november 18, 2002, odi opened a preliminary evaluation (pe02-086) to evaluate allegations of rear axle trailing arm failures in the subject vehicles (u-van) which included two reporting crashes.on april 9, 2003, odi upgraded pe02-086 to an engineering analysis (ea03-005) to continue its examination of the issue. The…

• SAFETY BELT ASSEMBLY FAILURE
  Engineering Analysis EA02032 · opened Nov 18, 2002 · closed Nov 21, 2003

  Odi identified 59 reports with the alleged defect.odi was able to contact 44 of the 59 consumers in order to determine the specific cause of the latch problems.of the 44 owners contacted, odi determined that four failures were due to an out-of-tolerance latch plate, and that 23 failures were due to a displaced buckle h…

• SHOULDER HARNESS CLIP
  Preliminary Evaluation PE02017 · opened Feb 11, 2002 · closed Aug 2, 2002
• AIR BAG INFLATOR
  Engineering Analysis EA01014 · opened Jun 11, 2001 · closed Aug 26, 2002 · led to recall 02V027002
• AIR BAG TEAR DURING DEPLOYMENT
  Preliminary Evaluation PE00045 · opened Nov 3, 2000 · closed Jan 11, 2001
• UNEXPECTED OPENING OF SLIDING DOOR
  Investigation SQ00014 · opened Jul 25, 2000 · closed Oct 22, 2001 · led to recall 01V067000

  There is no summary currently available

• TRACTION CONTROL
  Recall Query RQ00006 · opened Feb 16, 2000 · closed Apr 20, 2001 · led to recall 98V072000