1998 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX — Complaint #326416
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:TORSION BAR filed December 17, 2001
NHTSA complaint #326416 (ODI reference 755606) concerns a 1998 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX and was filed on December 17, 2001. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 4, 2001. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:springs:torsion bar, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same PONTIAC GRAND PRIX cohort independently describe similar suspension:front:springs:torsion bar failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 1998 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TORSION BAR RUSTED UNDER BRACKET, NEARLY SNAPPED IN TWO. WHEEL WAS HELD TO FRAME ONLY BY STRUT. TWO MECHANICS TOLD ME THEY "HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN THEIR CAREER AS A MECHANIC" BOTH WITH OVER 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE. GM SAYS ITS NORMAL WEAR AND TEAR. MY MECHANICS BELIEVE IT WAS INFERIOR PART THAT IS EXPECTED TO HOLD THE WHEEL TO THE FRAME. *AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 326416 |
| ODI Number | 755606 |
| Date Filed | December 17, 2001 |
| Failure Date | December 4, 2001 |
| VIN | 1G2WP52K0WF |
Similar SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:TORSION BAR Complaints for 1998 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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