| Components - Details | |
|---|---|
| NHTSA Complaint Number: 005016243 | Incident Date: Apr, 14 2005 |
| Consumer's City: FOWLERVILLE | Consumer's State: MI |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC |
| Model Name: CENTURY | Model Year: 2001 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Engine and engine cooling:cooling system |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: 2G4WS52J711 | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Apr, 15 2005 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: - |
| Was Original Owner: No | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 6 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: About a month ago the check engine light came on. because of the cost to have a mechanic hook up the obdii monitor i didn't take the vehicle in right away, hoping it was simply due to a dirty sensor or loose gas cap (which has been the root cause before in other vehicles). shortly after the check engine light incident the temp gage and heater started acting funny. starting in the morning the heater only provided lukewarm air at best. then the temp gauge would spike really fast and the coolant alarm would come on. then right away the gage would normalize and there would be no problems the rest of the trip. the temp gage would be in the normal range. the problem only happened a couple of times then appeared to go away. yesterday the problem re-surfaced except the temp gauge didn't normalize and there was a smell of antifreeze coming from the engine compartment. after calling around to mechanics it sounds like it could be the intake gasket. since the beginning of these problems i've been checking the coolant. i own other gm vehicles so i'm familiar with intake manifold gasket failures. in fact, i had to replace the intake manifold gasket on our blazer about 1 month ago. this buick only has about 40k miles on it. i thought buick was gm's "quality" division????*ak |
