Recall - Parking Brake Lever Replacement: Overview

Model Year 1987

Bulletin No. 87-C-1

File in Group 5

Number 1

Date Sept. '86
SUBJECT: PARKING BRAKE LEVER MAY NOT HOLD

MODELS AFFECTED: 1987 SKYHAWK

CONDITION

General Motors has determined that certain 1987 Buick Skyhawk models fail to conform to the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 105, "Hydraulic Brake Systems". These vehicles might have been assembled with parking brake lever mechanisms which will not properly engage when applied.

In some of these vehicles, the parking brake can be applied and appear to be properly engaged and later, when the vehicle is unattended, it could disengage. If the transmission were neither in gear (manual transmission) nor in Park (automatic transmission), the vehicle could unexpectedly roll. In such an instance the vehicle might roll away uncontrolled, which could result in a vehicle crash without prior warning.