The car while turning intermittently dies and looses any acceleration stalls and most of the time starts back up when lifting foot of the gas and sometimes dies. Also the car accelerates on its own sometimes very quickly. The car stalling while making a left turn got me t-boned by someone while making a left hand turn. I'm not the only one with this problem. This defect is going to get somebody killed.
Engine & cooling
1990 Cadillac Deville Engine problems
Owners have filed 10 complaints about the 1990 Cadillac Deville's engine & cooling with NHTSA - 12% of all its complaints, most recently on December 16, 2015. They describe 1 crash, 2 fires and 0 injuries. Stalling, loss of power, oil consumption, overheating, head gaskets, timing chains and engine failure.
- Complaints
- 10
- Recalls
- 0
- Crashes
- 1
- Fires
- 2
- Injuries
- 0
- Deaths
- 0
Engine complaints
Tl*the contact owns a 1990 cadillac deville. While driving 65 mph, the vehicle's steering wheel began to smoke for thirty seconds. The air bag light has remained illuminated for two months. The mechanic stated that the water pump caused the air bag light to fail. The contact also noticed a rubbing noise coming from the axle when making a left and right turn. The steering failure has not been diagnosed. The current mileage is 175,512 and failure mileage was 175,480.
Engine fire.*Mr when the consumer exited the turnpike, the engine all of a sudden caught on fire. *Ts *jb
There has been 2 times that this engine has failed almost costing our lives.*Ak
Replaced the water pump three times within the past two years. Too many other problems to list. *Ak
Hobbie diagnosed and replaced engine motor mount in march 1999. We had the car checked at an independent repair shop in june 2000 (5676 miles on new part) and they found that the new mount was broken. We feel that the part may have been broken at the time of installation. Called both hobbie and general motors. Neither will acknowledge that the motor mount is defective nor will they admit to a problem.
Engine mounts were broken / intermittent rough idle caused by def grounding system.
Intermittently when slightly turning the wheel on an expressway engine will stall out and die, resulting in loss of vehicle control. The vehicle will start up immediately after. The dealer and manufacturer have been notified. *Ak
ENGINE BLOCK LEAKING DUE TO FAILURE.
Vehicle seized while driving the vehicle on the highway. Tt
Cadillac Deville engine complaints by year
Deville engine problems, every yearSource: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) complaints and recalls, checked . Complaints are owners' own reports and are not verified. How we use the data