# Service bulletin 364

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: 52045
- Published by NHTSA: 1997\-07\-17
- Manufacturer's number: 364
- Manufacturer's date: 1997\-02\-01
- NHTSA component: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:BACK UP LIGHTS:SWITCH

## NHTSA's summary

RECALL 278 \- OVERHEATING OF BACK\-UP LIGHT SWITCH\- SAAB CARS USA, INC HAS NOTIFIED THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION \(NHTSA\) THAT A DEFECT WHICH RELATES TO MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY MAY EXIST IN CERTAIN 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AND EARLY 1990 9000 MODELS WITH AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION\- APPROXIMATELY 24,000 VEHICLES WERE ORIGINALLY AFFECTED\- THE DEFECT CONSISTS OF THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE COMBINATION NEUTRAL SAFETY/BACK\-UP LIGHT SWITCH MAY OVERHEAT FROM THE CURRENT FLOW THROUGH THE BACK\-UP LAMP CIRCUIT WHEN THE IGNITION IS SWITCHED ON AND THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION SELECTOR LEVER IS IN THE REVERSE \(R\) POSITION FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME\- IF OVERHEATING OF THE SWITCH ASSEMBLY DOES OCCUR, SMOKE, OR POSSIBLY, FIRE COULD DEVELOP IN THE CENTER CONSOLE AREA OF THE PASSENGER COMPARTMENT EVEN IF THE ENGINE HAS BEEN SWITCHED OFF\- THESE CARS WERE RECALLED TO MODIFY THE BACK\-UP LIGHT WIRING CIRCUIT TO REDUCE THE MAXIMUM ELECTRICAL CURRENT FLOW THROUGH THE NEUTRAL SAFETY/BACK\-UP LIGHT SWITCH, AND TO REPLACE THE SWITCH\- RECALL 278. \*JD

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Lighting

## Vehicles listed

- 1986 SAAB 9000
- 1987 to 1990 SAAB 9000

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