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Intake manifold gasket coolant leak into engineENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING4 complaints2001-08 → 2011-12skylark-1998-intake-manifold-coolant
750703 COOLANT LEAKED INTO CYLINDERS CAUSING ENGINE TO LOCK UP COMPROMISING STEERING AND BREAKS
10104908 PLASTIC HOUSING MELTS ENOUGH AFTER 80,000 TO ALLOW ENGINE COOLANT INTO THE COMBUSTION CHAMBER CAUSING ENGINE TO HYDROLOCK WITHOUT WARNING
10440082 MANIFOLD GASKET FAILED, LEAKING COOLANT INTO ENGINE OIL
Hard starting and no-start ignition or starter problemsELECTRICAL SYSTEM4 complaints2004-03 → 2016-02skylark-1998-starting-ignition
10061668 SOMETIMES WHEN STARTING THE VEHICLE DRIVER HAS TO HOLD THE KEY IN THE CRANK POSITION UNTIL THE VEHICLE WILL START
10061611 CONSUMER COMPLAINED ABOUT IGNITION SWITCH PROBLEM. WHEN TURNING THE KEY VEHICLE WILL NOT START
10837851 THE CONTACT MENTIONED THAT IT TOOK MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS TO START THE VEHICLE. THE FAILURE RECURRED INTERMITTENTLY
Front control arm bolt or bushing looseningSUSPENSION2 complaints2001-02 → 2003-01skylark-1998-control-arm-suspension
10002259 CONSUMER STATES THAT A BOLT CONNECTED TO THE LOWER CONTROL ARM CAME OFF
881140 FRONT CONTROL ARM BUSHING IS COMING LOOSE AT ONLY 28,972 MILES WHICH COULD CAUSE OTHER RELATED PROBELMS
Air bag deployment without a crashAIR BAGS2 complaints2005-03 → 2011-07skylark-1998-air-bag-deployment-no-crash
10410566 THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING 60 MPH, THE FRONT DRIVERS SIDE AIR BAGS DEPLOYED. NO CRASH OCCURRED AND NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED
10115975 THERE WAS NO IMPACT, IN FACT THE VEHICLE WAS SITTING IN A BUILDING AND NOT EVEN IN MOTION
Unintended surge or hesitation during accelerationVEHICLE SPEED CONTROL5 complaints1998-08 → 2002-08skylark-1998-surge-hesitation
564800 CONSUMER BEGAN TO PUT VEHICLE INTO PARK AFTER PULLING INTO A PARKING SPACE, WHEN IT SURGED FORWARD, VEHICLE JUMPED A CURB, CRASHED THROUGH A WALL
870536 WHEN TRAVELING UPWARDS THE VEHICLE WILL SPEED UP WITHOUT PRIOR WARNING. ALSO, VEHICLE WILL HESITATE
539341 CONTINUOUS PROBLEMS WITH HESITATION UPON ACCELERATION AFTER SEVERAL REPAIR ATTEMPTS
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Wrench.Pro (2026). 1998 Buick Skylark vehicle data [dataset]. https://www.wrench.pro/data/vehicles/1998/buick/skylark
@misc{wrenchpro_1998_buick_skylark_2026,
author = {Wrench.Pro},
title = {Wrench.Pro vehicle data: 1998 Buick Skylark},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.wrench.pro/data/vehicles/1998/buick/skylark}},
note = {Derived from NHTSA public records. CC BY 4.0.}
}
