Recall - L/H Front Brake Pipe Replacement: Overview
89oldsmobile04SUBJECT LEFT FRONT BRAKE PIPE INTERFERENCE WITH
CRUISE CONTROL SERVO BRACKET
MODELS/YEARS 1989 OLDSMOBILE TORONADO AND TROFEO
MODELS WITH ANTI-LOCK BRAKE SYSTEM
NUMBER: 89-C-04
DATE: April 1989
SECTION: 5E
CONDITION
General Motors has determined that a defect which relates to motor vehicle safety exists in some 1989 Oldsmobile Toronado and Trofeo models equipped with Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS). Involved vehicles may have been assembled with the left front brake pipe too close to the cruise control servo bracket. This condition could allow the left front brake line to contact the cruise control servo bracket. Over time, this contact could allow the brake line to wear through, causing a loss of brake fluid and a partial loss of braking capability. Part of the brake system will still work and allow the vehicle to be stopped, but over a greater distance. A partial loss of braking capability at a time when minimum stopping distance is required could result in a vehicle crash without prior warning.
VEHICLES INVOLVED
Certain 1989 Oldsmobile Toronado and Trofeo models equipped with Anti-Lock Brake System (option code JL9) within the following VIN breakpoints:
Beginning Through and Including
KU300001 KU306630
Only vehicles with ANTI-LOCK BRAKE SYSTEMS are involved in this campaign.
DEALER ACTION
To correct this condition, dealers are to replace the left front brake pipe assembly on all vehicles involved according to the instructions in the SERVICE PROCEDURE section of this bulletin.
Dealers are to service all involved vehicles at no charge to owners, regardless of mileage, age of vehicle, or ownership from this time forward.
Whenever a vehicle subject to this campaign is taken into your new or used car inventory, or it is in your dealership for service, you are to ensure the campaign correction has been made before selling or releasing the vehicle.
Dealers are to contact owners of vehicles recently sold from your new vehicle inventory and arrange for the campaign correction to be performed.