2017 Buick LaCrosse — reported problems

CarFaultIQ holds 1,237 evidence records for the 2017 Buick LaCrosse, drawn from official sources and owner complaints.

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 42 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

  • Electrical system11 (26.2%)Official recall records for this system: 7, covering model years 2005–2014.
  • Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)8 (19.0%)Official recall records for this system: 6, covering model years 2013–2019.
  • Engine5 (11.9%)
  • Suspension4 (9.5%)Official recall records for this system: 7, covering model years 2010–2017.
  • Speed control & accelerator3 (7.1%)
  • Air bags (restraint system)2 (4.8%)Official recall records for this system: 6, covering model years 2005–2016.

Other / uncategorized: 1 classifications (2.4%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

  • Owner complaints (4,238 records, model years 2005–2019) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, lights and air bags (restraint system).
  • Safety recalls (75 records, model years 2005–2019) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, air bags (restraint system) and suspension.
  • Manufacturer communications (21,964 records, model years 2005–2019) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and engine.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

  • 20reports included a mileage
  • 26,767average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

  1. 2005 896 records for 2005
  2. 2006 1,017 records for 2006
  3. 2007 1,112 records for 2007
  4. 2008 1,201 records for 2008
  5. 2009 1,145 records for 2009
  6. 2010 1,778 records for 2010
  7. 2011 1,815 records for 2011
  8. 2012 2,045 records for 2012
  9. 2013 2,088 records for 2013
  10. 2014 1,879 records for 2014
  11. 2015 1,621 records for 2015
  12. 2016 1,289 records for 2016
  13. 2017 1,237 records for 2017
  14. 2018 1,005 records for 2018
  15. 2019 704 records for 2019

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Official records held

  • Safety recalls NHTSA 2
  • Manufacturer communications NHTSA 1,199
  • Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 2
  • Owner complaints NHTSA 34

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Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.

Symptoms and warning lights in these systems

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