2003 Pontiac Grand Prix

LOUD TICKING AND OIL LIGHT ILLUMINATED WHEN CAR STARTED. CHECKED OIL AND THE OIL WAS READING FULL. TOOK CAR TO DEALERSHIP AND THEY SAY CAR NEEDS A NEW ENGINE. $7000 TO REPLACE THE ENGINE. THERE IS 90,000 KMS ON CAR AND IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN SERVICED AND SYNTHETIC OIL AND PREMIUM GAS USED. DEC/06 HEARD TICKING TOOK CAR TO DEALERSHIP, THEY COULD NOT DIAGNOSE PROBLEM DID A HOT OIL CHANGE AND TICK STOPPED OR WAS MASKED. NOW WE HAVE A SEVERE PROBLEM, NEW ENGINE REQUIRED AND THE CAR IS WORTH NOTHING. IT ALSO APPEARS TO BE A GASKET PROBLEM. WAS THERE A RECALL, THIS SEEMS TO BE A RECURRING PROBLEM?

IN FEB OF 2003 MY PONTIAC GRAND PRIX CAUGHT FIRE AFTER I PARKED FOR THE EVENING. SINCE THEN, INSURANCE REFUSED COVERAGE FOR "SUSPICIOUS IN NATURE. IN 2003 PONTIAC CLAIMED NO RESPONSIBILITY, GM'S 100,000 MILE WARRANTY WAS A REFUSED. AFTER COMPLAINING AGAIN IN 2006 PONTIAC CALLED AGAIN TO SAY THEY WERE NOT AT FAULT AND HAD NO RESPONSIBILITY. I ASKED THEM FOR CORRESPONDING VIN NUMBERS AND WAS REFUSED. I HAVE LOCATED OVER 15 ADDITIONAL GRAND PRIX ENGINE FIRES WHERE GM / PONTIAC IS CLAIMING NO RESPONSIBILITIES. ONCE ? TWICE ? 10 + ? I READ THAT NHTSA HAD BEGUN ANOTHER INVESTIGATION IN FEB 07 AND WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION ON THIS. I WOULD BE HAPPY TO FORWARD COPIES OF ANY OF MY MATERIALS INCLUDING 2 SEPARATE FIRE INVESTIGATIONS THAT CLAIM MY FIRE STARTED BY THE DRIVERS HEAD LAMP UNDER THE AIR FILTER ASSEMBLY, INCLUDING RECEIPTS THAT SHOW WHERE GM SERVICED MY FUEL ASSEMBLY 2 WEEKS PRIOR TO THE FIRE... *JB

TL* - THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING THE 2003 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX ON A SUNNY DAY AT 35 MPH A DEER RAN OUT IN FRONT OF THE VEHICLE HE SWERVED IN ORDER NOT TO HIT THE DEER AND RAN INTO A TREE. THE AIR BAG DEPLOYED, THE CAR CAUGHT ON FIRE AND WAS CONSUMED BY THE FIRE. HE HAD A HARD TIME GETTING OUT THE DRIVER'S SIDE DOOR, IT WOULD NOT OPEN. HE HAD TO CRAWL OUT THROUGH THE BACK WINDOW. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 87000 MILES.*AK

ABS BRAKE AND TRAC LIGHT IN A 2003 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX STAYED ON. WE TOOK THE VEHICLE TO A PONTIAC DEALER AND HE STATED THAT IT WOULD COST $925.00 TO REPLACE THE COMPUTER SYSTEM. IT ALSO STATED THAT HE WOULD CALL GM HEADQUARTERS AND SEE IF WE COULD GET SOME HELP FROM THEM. APPARENTLY HE RECEIVED WORD FROM HEADQUARTERS THAT IF WE HAD A 50,000 MILE CHECK-UP AT HIS DEALERSHIP AND PAY $425.00 THEN HE GM WOULDN'T CHARGE US TO CORRECT THE ABS AND TRAC LIGHT PROBLEM. OF COURSE WE OPTED FOR THIS BECAUSE IT SAVED US MONEY. BUT I WONDER IF THIS WAS A SCAM AND GM WOULDN'T HAVE CHARGED US ANYTHING TO FIX THE ABS AND TRAC LIGHT SYSTEM. *NM

I PURCHASED A 2003 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX ON 9/19/03 WITH 12429 MILES ON THE 3100 SFI 6 CYL ENGINE, AND NOW AT 65,550 MILES, THE MANIFOLD GASKET IS LEAKING AND FILLING THE RADIATOR WITH OIL. THE WARRANTY IS GOOD UP TO 75,000, AND I PLAN TO GET THE REPAIRS MADE BY THE DEALER UNDER MY CONTRACT. HOWEVER, THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED TO SUCH A NEW AUTOMOBILE, AND I UNDERSTAND OTHERS HAVE EXPERIENCED THE SAME PROBLEM WITH THIS ENGINE AT 35,000 MILES. *NM

THREE SEPERATE INCIDENTS (ICY ROADS) WHEN MY 2003 GRAND PRIX GTP ACCELERATED ON IT'S OWN(11,000KM). DEALER NOT ABLE TO FIND THE PROBLEM. TWO OF THE THREE WERE NEAR MISSES OF HEAD ON COLLISIONS IN SCHOOL ZONES. THEY SAID THERE WAS NO PROBLEM BECAUSE THE COMPUTER HADN'T CODED ANYTHING. THEY PUT THE DATA RECORDER INTO CAR. I CAUGHT ONE ACCELERATION AFTER WINTER WAS OVER. THEN THE DEALER WAS A LITTLE NICER AND DIDN'T TREAT ME LIKE SOME DUMB WOMAN WHO DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE. (MAYBE SOMETHINGS WRONG WITH THE COMPUTER!!) ANY WAY THEY CHANGED THE THROTTLE POSITION SENSOR. I THOUGHT YES FINALLY I CAN DRIVE THIS CAR I PAID $36,000.00 FOR AND FEEL RELAXED. WELL GUESS WHAT NO I DON'T GET TO BECAUSE THAT WAS NOT THE PROBLEM THE CAR STILL ACCELARATES WHEN IN LOW SPEEDS. THEY ARE NOT CHANGING ANYTHING ELSE AT THE MOMENT AND WANT ANOTHER SNAP SHOT. WELL THEY HAVE ONE, A NEW ONE REALLY ISN'T GOING TO HELP BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WANT TO LOOK AT CHANGING ANYTHING ELSE. I AM ALREADY HAVING NIGHTMARES OF DRIVING THIS CAR NEXT WINTER BECAUSE I'LL NEVER FEEL SAFE IN IT AGAIN!! WHEN I ASKED TO TRADE IT IN THEY ONLY OFFERED ME $17,500 ON THEIR PRODUCT THAT IS UNSAFE ON WHICH I PAID $36,000.00 IS STILL LIKE NEW AND ONLY HAS 17,000.00KM. SO WHEN SOMEONE ENDS UP KILLED MAYBE THEY WON'T BE SO QUICK TO TURN THEIR HEADS AWAY! WHEN I READ THE ARTICLES WRITTEN BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE KILLED SOMEONE AND CLAIM THEIR VEHICLE ACCELARATED ON THEM AND THEY COULD NOT CONTROL IT.I KNOW HOW THEY FEEL. THE ONLY WAY I COULD STOP MY CAR WAS TO TAKE IT OUT OF DRIVE !! \FRUSTRATED