1995 Pontiac Firebird problems
Owners have filed 112 complaints with NHTSA about the 1995 Pontiac Firebird. Electrical system is the most reported problem area, at 18% of complaints. Next are brakes (13%) and engine (11%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 112 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Electrical system 18% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 14 and 14
- Injuries and deaths
- 11 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
What the data shows
Safety-related details: 14 complaints mention a crash; 14 complaints mention a fire; 11 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 93% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1995 ranks 1st most-complained-about out of 11 model years of the Pontiac Firebird with enough data (84 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
While driving on interstate, rainy weather, vehicle hydroplaned, hit guardrail head-on, front nose pushed into/imbedded into guardrail, dual airbags did not deploy.
Vehicle was going 60 MPH and went head-on into a building and the bricks from the building fell down on the vehicle and the air bag did not deploy. Also the seat belts did not retain the driver in the seat.
On my way home from work about 1 am,coming around some curves, that I had come around a hundred times before, went to curve left and the car steered right, went into ditch, hit a driveway culvert and tore the tire off the rim and destroyed the rim. Didnt realize anything major was wrong till I got the tire changed and went to go home, the car was pulling to the right really hard, got it up to the shop and they said the subframe was bent in a few places.