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The contact owns a 1995 Chevrolet Cavalier. While turning the vehicle at various speeds, the ignition and engine completely failed. The vehicle takes several minutes before it can be restarted. The contact called the dealer and they stated that the vehicle was not under a recall. The current mileage was 78,340 and failure mileage was 60,000.
Fire under hood - had the recall ignition work done on 09/23/2003 while getting the fifth alternator replaced since March of 2002. On 03/28/2004 car would not start for 20 minutes. Finally started, drove approx. 2 miles when smoke poured out from under hood, parked and raised hood, flames. Fire was put out by extinguisher. This is the same problem I read about in the recall notice before I got the recall work done on the ignition. Called dealer that did the recall work who stated he had never heard of a fire after the recall work had been done.
After recall O1V070000 repairs were done and while driving smoke started coming from dashboard area, causing vehicle to stall out. Cause of smoke has not been determined.
- Mirando, TX, USA
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It is hard to start vehicle.. consumer states there is a recall for the vehicle, however the problem can not be fixed until the end of June due to the parts not being available.
My wife drive this car. It was taken into the dealer 4-5 times to get a stalling problem fixed. During one trip the replaced a head gasket at 77,764 miles on a bulletin from GM. The didnt check the head for defects. The dealer told us GM only let them replace the head gasket. It is now 15 months later and 14,000 miles on it, the head gasket has failed again. GM said it is not covered and the dealership want 1, 100 to fix it. Seems to me GM has a problem with bad head gaskets and instead of fixing the head and gasket right the first time, the just change the gasket and when it is out of warrenty stick it to the customer.
While driving on highway doing 60mph car suddenly and without any warning lost all power and stalled. Car would not restart & had to be towed. This has happened 2 other times before. Car was taken to dealer and they said that nothing is wrong. This is a very unsafe condition.
Was driving at highway speed and then dropped to city speed. Came upon a stop light and vehicle stalled out without any warning. Took to independent mechanic, and problem could not be located for stalling.
On 10/2/00 I had my 95 Chevy Cavalier towed to 2 dealers, bryner Chevrolet (they would not accept the warranty) and then to the dealer I purchased the vehicle, ne auto outlet because the car would not start. On 09/25/00 my car began to start with a hesitation. Each day thereafter it got worse. On 09/25/00 I replaced the battery thinking that the battery may have been the problem. That did not help. By Thursday the problem worsened so I called bryner Chevrolet and made an appointment. I could not get an appointment until 10/3/00. On 9/30/00 the car would no longer start at all. On 10/2/00 I had the car towed to bryner and then to ne auto outlet as I stated before. I was told that ne auto outlet could not look at the car until 10/3/00. I received a call at 11:30am from joe didonato at ne that I needed an ignition switch and an alternator. I was told that the bad components were draining the battery. I was also told that I needed a new serpentine belt. I had the serpentine belt replaced twice before at bryner Chevrolet on 5sep97 and 6feb98. It seems to be highly unusual that I would need to replace the belt almost every year on a 1995 vehicle with only 27961 miles on it. I don't even drive 5,000 miles a year. I feel the same about having to replace the ignition switch and the alternator/generator. I have had 3 recalls since I purchased the vehicle. Hazard lamp, leaking cylinder (head gasket was replaced), and PCM assy. The problem with the belt has been ongoing with noise in the pulley area of the belt. The noise began again a few days after the recalls on the head gasket and PCM assy.
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- Hagersville, CA, USA