1993 Pontiac Sunbird problems
Owners have filed 50 complaints with NHTSA about the 1993 Pontiac Sunbird. Brakes is the most reported problem area, at 18% of complaints. After that come electrical system (14%) and engine (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 50 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 18% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 7 and 4
- Injuries and deaths
- 5 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: 7 complaints mention a crash; 4 complaints mention a fire; 5 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 89% 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 1993 ranks 1st most-complained-about out of 4 model years of the Pontiac Sunbird with enough data (30 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 2 safety recall campaigns.
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.
The vehicle experienced sudden acceleration, which resulted in an accident, driver and passenger sustained injuries, consumer believed incident was related to recall 93v190000, however the manufacturer stated the two problems were not related.
Consumer called aaa because vehicle would not start, aaa jumped the battery, said that something is draining, the battery they did not know what, but asked her to let the vehicle run about 20 minutes before shutting off. Approximately 10 minutes after aaa left, the vehicle was in flames. The fire department came, the fire was in the dash area. After putting fire out, they discoverd a box of wires under dash behind glove box, that caught on fire.
While parked, there was a short in wiring behind the glove box and a fire had started. The fire just burned the wiring and some small areas around the glove box. The consumer believes that the relay switch for the auto lock system which is located in the glove box caused the fire. The lock system started giving consumer problems a month prior to fire, then stopped working completely about a week and a half before the fire. The vehicle was parked in the garage. The consumer had seen smoke coming out of the vehicle.
Water leaks inside car, radiator leak, heater core, head gasket, thermostat, freeze out plugs, engine wet with oil, A/C cutting in and out, runs rough when A/C is on, slow pick up, door locks don't work, window washers stop before cycle is done, breaks and break line bad, washer fluid reservoir cracks twice now, over all repairs total about $1600.00, and we have to replace the head gasket next so plsu this amount, I have bills kept of all exact payments of parts and labor