NHTSA — Electrical System: Ignition: Anti-Theft: Control Module Problems

2.6

hardly worth mentioning
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
56,344 miles

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1999 Oldsmobile Cutlass electrical problems

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1999 Oldsmobile Cutlass Owner Comments

problem #5

Feb 112008

Cutlass 6-cyl

  • Automatic transmission
  • miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

Car wont start anti theft (dtc) is on wont disengage nothing was changed or done to the car light flashed a couple of times intermittently.

- Lansing, MI, USA

problem #4

Mar 142005

Cutlass 6-cyl

  • Automatic transmission
  • 66,000 miles
Anti-theft system flashes and car will not start until it set for a while (usually 20 mimutes). Theft system light stays on and will not go off. Concern is that the vehicle will stall in traffic making the vehicle difficult to control leading to possibility of accident and injury. Their is no fix to this problem according to the oldsmoble dealership.

- Austin, TX, USA

problem #3

Jan 052005

Cutlass 6-cyl

  • Automatic transmission
  • 81,000 miles
Theft system continually overrides the system and will not allow the vehicle to start. Is has not yet caused the vehicle to shut down on the highway but it does pose a threat to do so. I have also talked with several other owers of the same type/division(Cutlass and Malibu) of vehicle and they all report the same problem. The local GM dealer says that it is just a problem with my vehicle but so many in the same area with the same problem?.

- Oil Springs, KY, USA

problem #2

Sep 152004

Cutlass 6-cyl

  • Automatic transmission
  • 98,500 miles
1. car running perfectly fine. 2. one day, car wouldn't start and theft system light was flashing. 3. went online and found a bunch of complaints about the passlock system. It said to wait 1/2 hour and the car would start again. So we wait, and it starts. This is extremely inconvenient. We rely heavily on this car.

- Tulsa, OK, USA

problem #1

Mar 042004

Cutlass 6-cyl

  • Automatic transmission
  • 36,220 miles
The instrument panel intermitently failed to show any check/warning indicator light when the ignition key was inserted at the off and on position. The ignition also failed to start the engine even with the presence of clicking noise. If the ignition was successful, the engine could suddenly die unexpectantly while running in the garage or on the highway -- without showing any instrumental failure indicator signs in either case. The processes repeatedly occurred unpreditably during the past few days but the dealer could not duplicate similar failures as reported while the vehicle was in the shop for checking-up.

- Barbousrville, WV, USA

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