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Janice of Lake Oswego OR (6/28/04):
5-15-04 at 3:30am I was driving my 2002 PT Cruiser I had purchased from Beaverton Chrystler in January 2002. I heard a whining noise, smelled smoke, the car seized and I turned it off immdiately to open the hood to look at the the engine when there was a flame about a foot high where there was a plastic bottle and some wires on the driver side.

I closed the hood and called the fire department. By the time they got there the flames were outside the hood. The car had been recently repaired for the power steering hose leaking. The power steering was still leaking. I had to refill it after repair again.

Car was totaled. Fire investigation found fire caused by power steering fluid leak.

There was a recall on the PT Cruiser for this problem on June 5, 2004.

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September 7 2008

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