1.2

hardly worth mentioning
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
150,000 miles

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problem #1

Jul 222013

Achieva 4-cyl

  • 150,000 miles
I bought my dads 1996 Oldsmobile Achieva, on about the 7-22-13, he had it at our mechanics car lot for sale and my trucks transmission started failing on me so I purchased my dads car, went to pick it up and now after 2 different mechanics and 5 weeks later they still can't get my car fixed so it will run, this is what it does, security light comes on and off flashing until it comes on fully all the time, dies and refuses to start, so I done some looking on the internet and found out that just about all of the Achieva, Malibu's, basically all G.M. cars from early 90's- upper 90's all have this problem and it can happen while the car is being driven in some cases, so I fill like if this is not took care of it could cause a wreck, fire or an accident of some kind being it is the # 1 thing to go wrong with this kind and year model's of olds-Achieva, just was wondering if my car got missed on recall or if it should be recalled, I'm about half way afraid to drive it even if it gets fixed, that it will do it again and me be driving it next time, please let me know if there is any help for my car to get recalled..

- Harrison, AR, USA

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