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  NHTSA Recall 80V049000

NHTSA Campaign Id 80V049000; Date: Apr. 28, 1980

icon1 Recalled Vehicles:

1980 Chevrolet Camaro 1980 Pontiac Firebird

Component: Equipment:other:labels

Manufactured by: General Motors Corp.

Affected Units:: 16

icon3 Recall Summary:

Vehicles may fail to conform to federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 110, "tire selection and rims". Placard on rear edge of left door may show an incorrect vehicle capacity weight instead of the correct figure of 800 lbs.

icon2 How to Fix:

Dealer will install the correct label free of charge to owner.

icon4 Recall Notes:

Vehicle description: passenger vehicles. System: equipment; tire information labels. Consequences of defect: improper loading could occur, leading to undesirablehandling characteristics due to overloading of the tires. This could cause anaccident.

Date Owners notified by Manufacturer: May 1, 1980

Also see:

All recalls of Chevrolet vehicles.

More recall documents on nhtsa.gov.