Recall Register

1998 Pontiac Firebird: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1998 Pontiac Firebird. NHTSA has 63 complaints on file for this model year.

This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 1998 Pontiac Firebird. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 63 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

63 complaints, 91 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

  • 1998 Pontiac Firebird
  • All 1998 vehicles
1998 Pontiac Firebird: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component1998 FirebirdAll 1998 vehiclesFirebird, all yearsMentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic340.7106.9163.331
Air Bags87.950.656.18
Structure65.945.844.96
Exterior Lighting54.927.344.95
Steering54.955.848.65
Vehicle Speed Control54.943.234.95
Visibility54.956.132.45
Suspension3382.6153
Power Train3390.467.33
Unknown or Other3321.926.23

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 21.

Complaints that report a crash
8
Complaints that report a fire
2
Injuries in the complaints
5
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
13 Aug 2022

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Complaints about the 1998 Pontiac Firebird, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 26 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19671
  2. 19682
  3. 19692
  4. 19701
  5. 19711
  6. 19721
  7. 19732
  8. 19743
  9. 19751
  10. 19762
  11. 19771
  12. 19781
  13. 19792
  14. 19802
  15. 19811
  16. 19823
  17. 19832
  18. 19846
  19. 19854
  20. 19862
  21. 19871
  22. 19882
  23. 19892
  24. 19902
  25. 19913
  26. 19922
  27. 19930
  28. 19941
  29. 19951
  30. 19960
  31. 19971
  32. 19980
  33. 19991
  34. 20000
  35. 20010
  36. 20021

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1998 Pontiac Firebird: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/pontiac/firebird/1998/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Pontiac Firebird have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 40 recall campaigns for the Pontiac Firebird, model years 1967 to 2002. None of them names the 1998 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1998 Pontiac Firebird name most often?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 31 of 91 component mentions, or 340.7 per 1,000. For all 1998 vehicles the figure is 106.9 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1998 Pontiac Firebird open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.