2000 CADILLAC CATERA Complaints

TIRES ARE WEARING OUT FROM INSIDE AT 6,000 MILES.*AK. HEARD NOISES AND SAW PREMATURE INNER WEARING OF TIRES. REPORTED FAILURE TO DEALER AND TIRE DISTRIBUTO WHO WERE SHOWN OLD TIRES AND NEW TIRES. NEW TIRES WERE PURCHASE AT 27, 383 MILES. *AK

VEHICLE'S BRAKES LOCKED UP CAUSING ACCIDENT.*MR WHEN THE BRAKES LOCKED, THE CONSUMER SPUN AROUND AND HIT A BRICK WALL FOUR TIMES. THE CONSUMER SUSTAINED SEVERAL BROKEN RIBS AS A RESULT OF THE SEAT BELT. THE CONSUMER WOULD LIKE CADILLAC TO PAY HER $20,000 CASH TO PURCHASE ANOTHER VEHICLE. *PH *JB *JB

WHILE DRIVING AT 35 MPH, THE DRIVER SIDE AIR BAG DEPLOYED OUT PROVOCATION. *AK THE AIR BAG DEPLOYMENT FILLED THE VEHICLE UP WITH SMOKE WHICH MADE IT DIFFICULT TO SEE. *TS *JB

THE CONSUMER HAD THREE LIFE THREATENING EXPERIENCES WITH THE VEHICLE. WHERE THE VEHICLE WOULD SHUT OFF WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY, AND AT STOP LIGHT(S), AND COULD NOT RE-START THE ENGINE. THE CONSUMER LATER ADVISED BY THE DEALER THAT THE CRANK SHAFT SENSOR STOPPED WORKING AND TURNED OFF THE VEHICLE WHILE IT WAS IN DRIVE WITH NO WARNING. THE CONSUMER FEELS THAT THIS VEHICLE SHOULD BE RE-CALLED. *SCC

WE HAVE HAD 4 COMPUTERIZED FRONT END ALIGMENTS AND 3 SETS OF TIRES BEFORE 18,611 MILES, AND THE DEALERSHIP HAS NOT FIXED THE PROBLEM YET. DT

WHILE DRIVING, CONSUMERS WIFE HEARD WHAT SOUNDED LIKE A GUN SHOT WITH A BULLET CRASHING THROUGH THE PASSENGERS FRONT SIDE WINDOW, SHE THEN SWERVED INTO ANOTHER LANE, AFTER BEING ABLE TO PULL OVER SHE DISCOVERED THAT THE WHITE SMOKE AND NOISE WAS THE RESULT OF THE PASSENGER AIR BAG WHICH HAD DEPLOYED.*JB

THE CADILLAC CATERA WILL SUDDENLY STALL OUT--THERE IS NO WARNING THAT IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. IT TYPICALLY HAPPENS WHEN MAKING A TURN(RIGHT OR LEFT). IT IS POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING WHEN IT OCCURS. PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS! SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE KILLED WHEN THIS OCCURS. I SHOULD ALSO MENTION THERE ARE MANY OTHER PROBLEMS WITH THIS VEHICLE BUT THE STALLING OUT OF THE VEHICLE IS THE MOST SERIOUS. I AM SICK AND TIRED OF GOING TO THE DEALERSHIP AND THEM TELLING ME MY PROBLEM "CANNOT BE DUPLICATED." OBVIOUSLY, IT CAN'T. . .BECAUSE YOU CAN'T PREDICT WHEN IT WILL OCCUR.PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT IT.*AK

ENGINE LIGHT COMES ON INTERMITTENTLY. VEHICLE TAKEN TO DEALER 7 TIMES. OXYGEN SENSOR WAS REPLACED, BUT THIS DID NOT REMEDY THE PROBLEM. DEALER THEN SUGGESTED TO USE ONLY REGULAR FUEL, NOT HI TEST AS RECOMMENDED FOR THIS VEHICLE.*AK

VEHICLE WOULD LOSE POWER AND HAD NO BRAKES. TOOK VEHICLE TO DEALER, AND DEALER INDICATED FUEL LINE HAD BEEN SEVERED. *AK

WHILE VEHICLE WAS STOPPED IT ACCELERATED AT A HIGH SPEED, PRESSED DOWN ON BRAKE, AND VEHICLE CONTINUED TO ACCELERATE. ACCIDENT OCCURRED. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION.*AK