Owner reports filed with NHTSA about this vehicle, newest first and reproduced as filed. They are unverified accounts: one proves nothing, and a pattern across many is the thing worth reading. Back to the full 1998 record →
VEHICLE BACKFIRED SEVERAL TIMES AND LOST POWER WHILE PASSING ANOTHER VEHICLE ON A TWO-LANE ROAD. MANAGED TO MANEUVER TO SIDE OF ROAD. ENGINE WOULD NOT RESTART. HAD VEHICLE TOWED TO AN ISUZU DEALER. DEALER IDENTIFIED THE FAILURE AS A SHORTED CRANKSHAFT POSITION SENSOR.
CONSUMER HAD ACCIDENT AND NEITHER AIR BAG DEPLOYED, CAUSING SERIOUS INJURIES TO BOTH DRIVER. VEHICLE SUSTAINED SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE. *AK
CONSUMER WAS DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY, WAS ABOUT TO TURN OFF WHEN VEHICLE LOST ACCELERATION DUE TO A BROKEN CABLE LINE. DEALER NOTIFIED. *AK
NHTSA publishes every complaint as the owner wrote it and investigates only a fraction. Spelling, capitalisation and judgement are the filer’s own. What carries weight is repetition: the same component failing the same way across many filings, and whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.
Full record for the 1998 Isuzu Hombre → · Every Hombre year → · How the figures are calculated →