2017 Buick Envision

This is the second time its happened but today while I was already out my driver side seat belt will not release. No matter what I do, the seat belt will not release. Therefore I had to drive home without a seat belt, which is scary. This same exact thing happened before and I had it fixed at the dealership. I've not had any accidents or anything that would affect the seat belt.

The contact owns a 2017 Buick Envision. The contact stated that while depressing the brake pedal to stop the vehicle, the brake pedal extended to the floorboard. The vehicle failed to immediately stop, causing the braking distance to be extended. Upon inspection, there was brake fluid leaking from the front driver’s side wheel. The vehicle was taken to the local mechanic who diagnosed that the front driver’s side brake hose had ruptured causing brake fluid to leak from the vehicle. The brake hose was replaced, and the vehicle was repaired. The contact later experienced the same failure to the front passenger’s side brake hose. The mechanic stated that the rubber hose had detached from the metal coupling. The manufacturer and local dealer were not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 33,902.

Driver front brake hose burst, mechanic placed back in packaging for me to keep for inspection. Fortunately it busted coming to a stop for traffic light while already slowing, then could slowly drive off roadway into a parking lot, brake pedal went to the floor due to loss of fluid and could have been catastrophic for my wife or other motorists. My mechanic replaced with factory GM hoses on both sides. My mechanic is a state of Maryland licensed inspection station and confirmed the failure. No prior warning, Onstar records will confirm, after the fact, of lights and warnings of brake failure.

I had just left the driveway at my in-laws house, which is approx. an hour and 45 minutes from my home. Within moments, randomly, the sun roof popped open, as if someone had hit a remote. It would not close, and after trying for a bit, decided to drive home and we would address it there. When I hit the open road, the roof went the rest of the way open and then about two miles from the house, I starting choking on the smell of burning plastic. I immediately pulled over on to the shoulder of a side road, turning off the car. My husband was in a vehicle behind me and came over and we were both very concerned the vehicle was going to catch on fire. He tried to pull the fuse in the panel, but when we turned the vehicle back on, there was smoke coming from the sunroof motor area, and the smell was atrocious. The inside hood liner was very warm near the rear of the vehicle with the motor. At that point, we decided to call a tow truck, because it was obvious there was an electrical short. Because the sun roof was stuck open, we had to get a car cover to protect it from the rain coming in. The dealership investigated the next day, and confirmed there was an electrical short that was throwing high-voltage power in to the sunroof. It had melted the motor and wires around it, and had we gone any further, the voltage would have caused a more significant fire. They had to do significant repairs, costing $1400, as well as some clean-up of the interior to try and ensure we weren't continuing to breathe burnt-plastic fumes.

Owner of a 2017 Buick Envision that the front driver’s side seat belt strap has started to fray along the seat belt which could fail in a crash. It seems that the male seat belt connector maybe causing the fraying. The current mileage on the 2017 Envision is 41,497 miles. The local dealer was notified when scheduling an appointment for service.

Power steering loss. While driving the electronic power steering quit, and I received warnings that the power steering was not working. I also got errors on the advance headlights not working and that the all wheel drive was disable. Drove home with no power steering and checked the power fuses with a volt meter. No failures found. Restarted the car and there was no more problems. The online diagnostic indicated no failures recorded.

Car keeps jolting forward on it’s. This almost caused me to slam into the back of someone’s car on the highway in bumper to bumper traffic. While trying to slow down the car forcefully slams forward. Other times I have been trying to accelerate from a stop and the car slams forward. When this happens everyone is thrown forward this started happening after repair at Jack Gimbalvo Buick body shop in York. Jack Giambalvo Buick dealership said they can’t duplicate the problem and there are no misfires. I will be calling corporate to make another complaint. I have already been in an accident in this car due to the brakes not working correctly and the whole dash malfunctioning.

The contact owns a 2017 Buick Envision. The contact stated that the front driver’s side seat belt strap had started to fray at the seat belt connection point. The contact indicated that the fraying became progressively worse over time. The cause of the failure was not yet determined. The manufacturer and local dealer were notified of the failure but no assistance was offered. The failure mileage was 36,000.