Pontiac Bonneville — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 3,864 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Engine730 (18.9%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 1996–2000.
• Electrical system474 (12.3%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 1996.
• Steering386 (10.0%)
• Fuel system292 (7.6%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 1996–2003.
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)240 (6.2%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 1999.
• Air bags (restraint system)236 (6.1%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2002–2003.

Other / uncategorized: 84 classifications (2.2%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (3,004 records, model years 1995–2005) are most frequently classified under: engine, electrical system and steering.
• Manufacturer communications (3,575 records, model years 1995–2005) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and engine.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 1,412reports included a mileage
• 82,144average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 1995 301 records for 1995 301
2. 1996 200 records for 1996 200
3. 1997 213 records for 1997 213
4. 1998 335 records for 1998 335
5. 1999 215 records for 1999 215
6. 2000 570 records for 2000 570
7. 2001 515 records for 2001 515
8. 2002 504 records for 2002 504
9. 2003 481 records for 2003 481
10. 2004 472 records for 2004 472
11. 2005 522 records for 2005 522

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 110mention a crash
• 230mention a fire
• 156mention an injury

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 29
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 3,575
• Investigations NHTSA 21
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 27
• Owner complaints NHTSA 3,004

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0742 in 15 records · 2001–2005
• P0442 in 12 records · 2000–2005
• P0741 in 11 records · 2001–2005
• P0757 in 11 records · 2001–2005
• P0716 in 9 records · 2000–2004
• P0756 in 6 records · 2001–2004
• P0730 in 4 records · 2001–2004
• P0440 in 3 records · 2002–2004
• P2138 in 2 records · 2005–2005
• P0230 in 1 record · 2000–2000
• P0455 in 1 record · 2004–2004
• P0521 in 1 record · 2005–2005

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.