Bulletins
| Bulletin | Bulletin date | Replacement Bulletin | Item no. | Summary | Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STRUCTURE - BODY | |||||
| 832006 | 12/01/1998 | 603085 | Some customers may comment that there is corrosion ( rust ) appearing on the left and /or right rocker panel(s). *yc | 02/01/1999 | |
| STRUCTURE - BODY - DOOR | |||||
| 971101631041 | 11/01/1997 | 54065 | Comments on inoperative power door locks (front and/or rear doors). | 03/30/1998 | |
Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| STRUCTURE | |||
| 04/04/2003 | 90000 | 1 | 12/05/2000 |
| Sever inner rust/rotted area in the rear passenger side trunk back seat, wheel housing. not visible rust to the naked eye, or no surface rust. caused water to leak in and cause extensive damage to seat, carpet, padding. leaked to under front passenger seat,shorting out sensor and deployed air bag without impact. g.m. is unhelpful. they responded with even if it was a factory defect i had exceeded my 6 year/100,000 mile warranty. i cannot see how this could fall to the consumers responsibility! i am hopeful that you may have an answer that could be of some help. i also am dumbfounded that an air bag will go off with out impact. everything i have researched on them reports only on crashes, even on the g.m.web page for air bags there is nothing that says shorting out of a sensor due to water or anything else can deploy them. so i ask what if a child spilled a drink and it went under the seat? what if my wife or i purchased a gallon of milk or water, sat it on the back floor and it leaked? should there not be a sensor or something to tell the air bag not to deploy due to the fact the auto wasn't in an accident? thank you, brian and lisa heuring. *jb | |||
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| 1 | 12/01/1996 | ||
| Roof leak. *yc | |||
| STRUCTURE - BODY - DOOR | |||
| 01/01/2005 | 1 | 09/01/2004 | |
| Dt: the contact owns a 1997 buick lesabre custom. the rocker panels rusted. the dealership and the manufacturer stated that the contact lived in a state where this happened because of the weather. he first began to notice this problem a couple of months ago. this was not interfering with the doors opening or closing, but there was a possibility of this in the future. this was occurring on the passenger's side and driver's side. *ak | |||
| 1 | 12/01/1996 | ||
| Door locks disengaged. | |||
| 10/30/1996 | 08/01/1997 | ||
| Air noise coming around the doors both on left and right sides of the vehicle. *ak | |||
| STRUCTURE - BODY - ROOF AND PILLARS | |||
| 08/07/2003 | 1 | 10/24/2002 | |
| I can't give names yet b/cause of legal reasons. but, a close family member was in an accident in 08-2003, went off steep cliff speed was 5-10 miles an hr. rolled the 1997 lasabre, was wearing seatbelt and for some reason air bag went off. anyhow he is now a quadraplegic b/cause the room collapsed on him. thanks 2 the weak design.*ak | |||
| STRUCTURE - BODY - TRUNK LID | |||
| 1 | |||
| The button to open the trunk inside the car stopped working. *yh | |||
| STRUCTURE - FRAME AND MEMBERS | |||
| 09/15/2010 | 87742 | ||
| September 15th driving my 1997 buick lesabre heard and felt a loud banging noise. lost all steering. car taken to garage where it was discovered that all four rear subframe cradle mount retainers had failed. entire engine and cradle fell disengaging the steering completely. i have since learned that there are thousands of lesabre owners who have had this same thing occur. gm did a recall on the regals for the same problem. was there ever a recall on the lesabres and if not...why not. this is an obviously very serious design failure which is potentially fatal. fortunately no one was injured in my case or the laywers would be hard at work. my buick is well cared for...serviced and inspected regularly and this still occurred. has only 87,700 miles on it. it cost me over $1000 to repair the problem and make the car safe to drive again. is there any way i can get gm to step up and assume responsibility for this? can nhtsa help? | |||
| 04/14/2010 | 160000 | ||
| Engine cradle support washers rust out causing the support to fall down when leaving the vehicle undriveable | |||
| 09/19/2008 | 139623 | 1 | |
| Tl*the contact owns a 1997 buick lesabre. while making a right turn, the contact heard a noise and felt the steering wheel continue to turn in her hand. the vehicle was towed to a mechanic and they stated that the vehicle's engine cradle washers rotted; therefore, the vehicle could not be steered. the gm manufacturer was called and they stated that they would make a note and wait for others to call about the failure. the failure mileage was 139,623. updated 04-17-09 updated 04/20/09.*jb | |||
| 05/21/1996 | |||
| Intermittent vibration. cruise control failure. | |||
| 04/15/1998 | 5 | ||
| Traveling 75-80mph when the vehicle started to vibrate. while it was vibrating, it started to make noises. had taken vehicle to dealership to have it checked out. was informed by mechanic that it was characteristic of the vehicle & not a problem with the suspension or axle. *ak | |||
| STRUCTURE - FRAME AND MEMBERS - UNDERBODY SHIELDS | |||
| 06/15/1999 | 1 | 03/20/1997 | |
| Noise heard in the rear trunk area due to loose heat shield. mjs | |||