# Service bulletin PIP4495D

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10112700
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-08\-15
- Manufacturer's number: PIP4495D
- Manufacturer's date: 2013\-01\-04
- NHTSA component: ENGINE

## NHTSA's summary

This Preliminary Information communication provides information to the technician about vehicles that have a loud tick or rattle noise under the hood at all operating conditions. Technician will need to check the lower and oil pressure to the upper end oil pressure. Technician will need to inspect the oil feed orifice in the cylinder head. Technician will clean out and debris found in the orifice.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2013/MC-10112700-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2013/MC-10112700-0001.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Engine

## Vehicles listed

- 2010 to 2013 BUICK LACROSSE
- 2011 to 2013 BUICK REGAL
- 2012 to 2013 BUICK VERANO
- 2012 to 2013 CHEVROLET CAPTIVA
- 2002 to 2005 CHEVROLET CAVALIER
- 2005 to 2010 CHEVROLET COBALT
- 2010 to 2013 CHEVROLET EQUINOX
- 2006 to 2011 CHEVROLET HHR
- 2004 to 2013 CHEVROLET MALIBU
- 2010 to 2013 GMC TERRAIN
- 2002 to 2004 OLDSMOBILE ALERO
- 2007 to 2010 PONTIAC G5
- 2006 to 2010 PONTIAC G6
- 2002 to 2005 PONTIAC GRAND AM
- 2005 to 2006 PONTIAC PURSUIT
- 2006 to 2010 PONTIAC SOLSTICE
- 2002 to 2005 PONTIAC SUNFIRE
- 2007 to 2010 SATURN AURA
- 2003 to 2007 SATURN ION
- 2003 SATURN L200
- 2003 to 2005 SATURN L300
- 2000 to 2002 SATURN LW200
- 2007 to 2010 SATURN SKY
- 2007 to 2010 SATURN VUE

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