Vehicle profile
1998 Cadillac Eldorado
Coupe · Midsize Cars
Specifications
What's under the hood.
- Horsepower
- 300 hp
- Cylinders
- 8-cyl
- Displacement
- 4.6L
- Fuel
- Gasoline
- Transmission
- Automatic 4-spd
- Drive
- FWD
- Body class
- Midsize Cars
- Doors
- 2
Federal recall campaigns
1 federal recall campaign.
How this compares
- vs 1998 Midsize Cars
- 0.25× the 4.06 campaigns averaged across that group (fewer than typical)
- Most-affected system
- VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL — 1 of 1 (100%)
Derived from the federal campaign record across 1998 vehicles in the same body class. Counts are of campaigns, not of faults found.
97V183000
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROLVEHICLE DESCRIPTION: PASSENGER VEHICLES, HEARSES AND LIMOUSINES. THE CANISTER PURGE EVAPORATIVE EMISSIONS HARNESS ON THESE VEHICLES WAS MISROUTED.
Consequence: THE HARNESS COULD INTERFERE WITH THE CRUISE CONTROL AND THROTTLE LINKAGE PREVENTING RETURN TO A CLOSED THROTTLE.
Remedy: DEALERS WILL INSPECT THE VEHICLE FOR PROPER ROUTING OF THE HARNESS, CORRECT AS NECESSARY, AND INSTALL A PLASTIC TIE STRAP TO THE HARNESS.
27/10/1997
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"year": 1998,
"make": "Cadillac",
"model": "Eldorado",
"trim": "Eldorado",
"submodel": "Coupe",
"horsepower": 300,
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"transmission": "Automatic 4-spd",
"drive_type": "FWD",
"fuel_type": "Gasoline",
"body_class": "Midsize Cars",
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"image_type": "illustration",
"recall_count": 1
}Compare
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