Fuel Injection Rail problems of the 1997 Buick Park Avenue

The contact owns a 1997 Buick Park Avenue. The contact stated that when driving at various speeds or when the vehicle was sitting idle, there was a strong odor of gasoline. The strong odor caused her to be hospitalized for respiratory problems. The vehicle was inspected by a dealer and they advised her that the fuel rail was fractured and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and they offered no assistance. The failure mileage approximately was 119,000.

Started to have strong odor of gasoline inside of car when engine was running. I checked to see if there was gasoline leaking from motor when I had the engine turned off without any luck. Had to keep windows rolled down because odor was so strong from the gasoline fumes. This all happened one week before I was admitted to the hospital for respiratory issues. On June 4th was admitted to hospital with respiratory problems for three days in the telemetry unit for respiratory distress. On June 10, 2011, I took the car to my mechanic and he discovered a pin hole leak in the plastic fuel rail on this car. My mechanic said this is a high pressure fuel rail and gm made this out of plastic that failed. He said the car is can not be driven that way it is and that the part need to fix the problem is not available per the gm dealers. He also told me this part may be under a recall notice and that I should check it out. He said it was a wonder the car had not caught on fire since the entire engine was covered in gasoline from the leak from the fuel rail. I contacted a Buick dealership called grand auto, inc. In thornton, CO and talked with the parts department and the service department. I talked with the service department manager named brian vaughn and he and the parts department said there was not a problem with this part and they refused to even listen to me concerning the issue. I looked on the NHTSA web site and found many other people having the same problem with this same part that I have. There have been other recalls on this year and model car but gm never notified the owners about the recalls until they had class action law suits against them. I now respiratory problems issues because of this defective part.