PARKED VEHICLE & LEFT. HAD RETURNED & VEHICLE WAS IN FLAMES. FIRE DEPARTMENT HAD BEEN CALLED & EXTINGUISHED THE FLAMES. ORIGIN OF BLAZE NOT DETERMINED, BUT SOME INDICATION WAS AROUND THE ENGINE AREA. VEHICLE TOTALED BY INSURANCE COMPANY. *AK
1991 Pontiac Sunfire
Routine
Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the engine and engine cooling › engine. No safety recall has been issued.
What fails
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsEngine and Engine Cooling › EngineFire
Filed Sep 30, 1999NY
1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.
Across model years
Worst on record: 1996| Year | Complaints | Recalls | Fires | Deaths | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 68 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2004 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Routine |
| 2003 | 72 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Routine |
| 2002 | 82 | 2 | 3 | 1 | Fatalities reported |
| 2001 | 66 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Fatalities reported |
| 2000 | 96 | 3 | 5 | 1 | Fatalities reported |
| 1999 | 93 | 5 | 4 | 2 | Fatalities reported |
| 1998 | 120 | 7 | 1 | 2 | Fatalities reported |
| 1997 | 190 | 9 | 8 | 0 | Routine |
| 1996 | 201 | 10 | 11 | 0 | Above average |
| 1995 | 119 | 7 | 11 | 0 | Routine |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 1991 — this page | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Routine |
Reading this record
No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.
Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.
Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.