Consumer Complaint Detail

BUICK / CENTURY / 2000

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Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 004020296 Incident Date: Nov, 29 2004
Consumer's City: LAKESIDE Consumer's State: CA
Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC
Model Name: CENTURY Model Year: 2000
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Vehicle speed control
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: 2G4WS52J6Y1 Date added to File: May, 23 2021
Date Complaint Received: May, 16 2005 Complaint Type: EVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Feb, 19 2000
Was Original Owner: Yes Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 6 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: Dt: the consumer experienced unwanted acceleration on 2000 buick century. sporadically, there were super high revs when the vehicle was first started. then the consumer had to stop the car and restart it again in order for the revving to go to a correct idle speed. the car has been to the dealership 4 times over this problem. this did not happen for the first four and half years. the dealer has replaced the throttle position sensor two times and the computer once. the consumer is still having the unwanted acceleration problem. the dealer can't figure out what the problem is. *jb