1984 PONTIAC TRANS AM — Complaint #619189
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:DRIVELINE filed April 4, 2007
NHTSA complaint #619189 (ODI reference 10186966) concerns a 1984 PONTIAC TRANS AM and was filed on April 4, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 3, 2007. The report was geocoded to Hawaii based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:driveline, 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 TRANS AM cohort independently describe similar parking brake:driveline 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 1984 PONTIAC TRANS AM shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I HAVE A 1984 FIREBIRD THAT MY FRIEND GAVE ME WHICH HAS BEEN SITTING IN STORAGE FOR MANY YEARS. I FOUND OUT THAT THERE WERE RECALS ON MY VEHICLE AND CALLED THE DEALER. THEY SAID THAT SINCE MY CARWAS SO OLD, THEY DON'T HAVE ANY RECORD OF ANY RECALLS. I CALLED PONTIAC CUSTOMER SERVICE'S 800 NUMBER, AND THEY TOLD ME THE SAME THING. BASICALLY, SINCE THEY HAVE NO RECORD OF ANY RECALLS FOR MY VEHICLE, THAT THERE IS NOTHING FOR THEM TO FIX. SO BASICALLY, MY CAR IS TOO OLD SO THEY WON'T FIX ANY RECALLS, SINCE THEY DON'T KNOW OF ANY. I TOLD THEM THE RECALLS ARE LISTED ON YOUR SITE, BUT THE CUSTOMER SERVICE REP WAS NO HELP AT ALL. *AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 619189 |
| ODI Number | 10186966 |
| Date Filed | April 4, 2007 |
| Failure Date | April 3, 2007 |
| VIN | 1G2AW87G1EL |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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