Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES | |||
| 07/25/2005 | 135000 | 4 | |
| Dt: the doors opened by themselves when going around the corner. three out of four of the doors do this. if the consumer slammed the doors they would latch properly. it's the door handle itself. the consumer believed the problem was the spring. *jb *sc | |||
| 05/29/2003 | 08/10/1998 | ||
| -the horn on 1996 pontiac sunfire has quit working and been repaired three times. the people at the shop said that it was getting wet apparently everytime i went through water because of it being pointed downward. -the muffler has been fixed three times -there are more that i can not remeber right off hand -their is an electrical problem with the whole car. the light on the radio time and staion display has not worked since i bought it, the driver's rear door light has not come on, the passenger rear window lets down but will not let up when needed since right after i got the car, the lights in the dashboard go on and off without even being touched, while riding down the road, the widshield wipers will just come on without being turned on and then stop halfway down impairing vision, the passenger rear tail light blows all of the time, it has never stayed with a bulb that works, etc. -the valve cover gasket leaks and has leaked since i got it -the gas light will not tell you when you are running low on fuel -the radio will eat your tapes since i got the carthe transmission has been replace on the car with less than 80,000 miles on it -the rack and pinion had to be replaced a few years ago along with the complete brake system the power steering has leaked fluid and will stop turning in the middle of a turn. i have almost wrecked on it sveral times because of it and the brakes. -the air conditioning compressor works when it gets ready to if even then and has always done that. | |||
| LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES - DOORS - LATCH | |||
| 02/01/1998 | |||
| At the end of june (2001) my drivers side door would not shut. i had the lock replaced. this month (08/2001) my passanger side door lock is not working. my door can not be shut . i have to replace the lock.*ak | |||
| While driving at night, changing high beams to low beams, the switch broke. also the door latches broke. problem has been corrected. *ak | |||