Consumer Complaint Detail

BUICK / LESABRE / 2001

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0 Injured
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0 Death
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Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 007109419 Incident Date: Jun, 17 2007
Consumer's City: NORCROSS Consumer's State: GA
Vehicle Transmission Type: Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC
Model Name: LESABRE Model Year: 2001
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Power train:automatic transmission
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: Date added to File: May, 23 2021
Date Complaint Received: Jun, 19 2007 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: -
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: No
Number of Cylinders: 0 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: While driving the 2001 buick lesabre home the car began to make a high pitch whine and grinding noise. at the same time the car would not go forward or backward. the car was towed to transmission shop, and i learned that the entire transmission had failed. i was told it was metal fatigue, and when one of parts broke it destroyed the entire transmission. the repair cost was 2600. the car only had 61000 miles on it, and had been driven for all but 1000 of those miles by my 95 year old grand father. *ak