2002 Buick Lesabre

NOTICED LOTS OF WHITE SMOKE COMING OUT TAIL PIPE WHILE DRIVING. VERY UNUSUAL. CAR THEN STOPPED ON FREEWAY. HAD TO GET PUSHED BY ANOTHER CAR TO SIDE IF FREEWAY. TOWED CAR HOME TO DRIVEWAY. TRIED TO CRANK ENGINE AND HEARD REAL LOUD POP COMING FROM UNDER HOOD. CAR DID NOT TURN ON. TRIED TO START 5 MORE TIMES BUT EACH TIME IT JUST SOUNDED LIKE A REAL SHORT CRANK TYPE SOUND LIKE AS IF ENGINE IS HAVING A HARD TIME TURNING. AFTER FIFTH TIME, ENGINE STARTED AND THIS TIME THE SMOKE COMING OUT TAIL PIPE WAS WHITE/BLUISH AND LOTS OF IT. ENGINE STOPPED. ALSO NOTICED THAT ALL THE COOLANT WAS GONE FROM COOLANT CONTAINER AND THERE IS A HIGH BURNING SMELL OF COOLANT COMING FROM ENGINE. THIS MIGHT BE A CRACKED UPPER INTAKE OR LOWER INTAKE. THESE ARE MADE OF REAL CHEAP HARD PLASTIC WHICH COULD BE THE PRIMARY REASON OF ENGINE FAILURE. CAR IS NOW PARKED IN MY BACKYARD. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2002 BUICK LESABRE. WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS PARKED, THE CONTACT NOTICED THAT ANTI FREEZE WAS LEAKING FROM THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A LOCAL MECHANIC AND THE MECHANIC ADVISED HIM THAT THE INTAKE MANIFOLD FAILED AND WAS CAUSING THE ANTI-FREEZE TO LEAK. THE MECHANIC WAS REPLACING THE INTAKE MANIFOLD AND THE GASKET. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT CONTACTED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 59,750 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 60,200. UPDATED 02/02/11 *CN

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2002 BUICK LESABRE. SHE NOTICED THAT BOTH REAR WINDOWS HAD FALLEN INSIDE OF THE DOOR. THE VEHICLE HAS NOT BEEN TAKEN TO THE DEALER FOR INSPECTION. THE SAME FAILURE OCCURRED ON THE FRONT PASSENGER-SIDE WINDOW. THE CURRENT AND FAILURE MILEAGES WERE 42000. UPDATED 1/28/10 *CN THE FUEL PRESSURE REGULATOR WAS LEAKING. THE MANIFOLD WAS CRACKED AND HAD TO BE REPLACED AS WELL AS THE CRANKSHAFT SENSOR. UPDATED 02/03/10.*JB

ENGINE STALLS WHILE DRIVING. NO WARNING. ENGINE WILL RESTART, BUT WILL ONLY RUN FOR A FEW SECONDS, THEN STALLS AND WILL NOT RESTART. NO CHECK ENGINE LIGHTS OR OTHER INDICATIONS THAT THERE IS A PROBLEM. HAPPENS AT HIGH AND LOW SPEEDS. CAR WILL RESTART AND OPERATE NORMALLY AFTER SITTING FOR A FEW HOURS, USUALLY OVERNIGHT. CAR HAS BEEN TOWED 7 TIMES FOR THIS PROBLEM. DEALER HAS REPLACED TWO IGNITION MODULES, AND ONE CRANKSHAFT POSITION SENSOR. CAR HAS BEEN AT THE DEALER FOR THIS PROBLEM FOR A TOTAL OF TWELVE WEEKS SINCE INITIAL OCCURRENCE, WHILE THE DEALER TRIES TO DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM. DEALER MOST OF THE TIME CANNOT DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM. MOST RECENT OCCURRENCE, THE CAR DISPLAYED THE FOLLOWING CODES: B1009 AND B2734. MILEAGE BETWEEN INCIDENTS RANGES FROM AS HIGH AS 15,000 MILES TO 1,500 MILES. CAR IS UNDEPENDABLE, AND MUCH MORE IMPORTANT, UNSAFE. *TR

2002 BUICK LESABRE 3.8 L ENGINE WOULD BE HARD TO START AFTER IT WAS DRIVEN AND RESTARTED AFTER 15 MINUTES (OR MORE) OF BEING OFF. THE CAR SOMETIMES HAS TO WAIT FOR .5 HOURS BEFORE IT WILL START. THIS HAPPENED A YEAR AGO ALSO. I HAVE CHECKED THE MAF SENSOR. THE CAR HAS ALSO STALLED WHILE DRIVING AT LOW SPEEDS. IF I WAIT FOR 3 MINUTES TO RESTART AFTER STALLING IT WILL RESTART AND USUALLY GO LONG DISTANCES 100 MILES WITHOUT FAILURE. *TR

TL* - THE CONTACT OWNS A 2002 BUICK LESABRE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT HE HE TOOK THE VEHICLE TO DEALER FOR SERVICE WHEN THE MECHANIC TOLD HIM THAT HE FOUND A SMALL CRACK IN THE INTAKE MANIFOLD. THE CONTACT HAS NOT BEEN TO THE BUICK DEALER, AND THE MECHANIC TOLD HIM THAT THE CRACK WAS POSSIBLY CAUSED BY AN ERROR IN THE VEHICLES COMPUTER. *AK