While backing into my daughter's attached garage, the gas line ruptured and leaked a lot of gasoline before I shut-off the ignition. I promptly re-started the car and backed it out of the garage, unwittingly risking igniting the gasoline in the process, but still afraid of the gas/fumes in the garage igniting and burning us, the car and the house down! We got a water hose and broom and swept as much of it out of the garage as we could. We were lucky. The point of this complaint is that there are probably tens of thousands of g m cars being driven and parked in garages with quite old, deteriorating gas lines whose drivers are totally unaware of it. Our experience, alone, could have been a disaster. My son-in-law has experienced the same problem with his 1995 oldsmobile ciera, although he believes that the squirrels around his home like to chew on the plastic gas lines. It seems to me that these old plastic gas lines represent an enormous risk to the safety of millions of people while they're not even in or near the source of ignition. They could, in fact, be in bed at the other end of the home when it all blows-up!
1996 Buick Century fuel system problems
11 complaints (14% of all complaints for this car).
- owner complaints
- 11
- of this car's complaints
- 14%
- crashes
- 0
- recalls
- 0
Which part fails
- Fuel injection system2
- Delivery: hoses, lines/piping, and fittings2
- Delivery: fuel pump2
- Delivery2
At what mileage
Complaints by mileage at the time of the problem.
Buick Century fuel system problems in other years
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
What 1996 Buick Century owners say
Most recent owner complaints, unedited.
Started car and gasoline started gushing out from beneath the car between the driver's door and the front wheel-well. As the car was partly in the garage, I drove it out of the garage and turned the engine off. This stopped the flow of gasoline. A mechanic later determined that the plastic gas line had failed and, after cutting-off the damaged part, he spliced the line back together with a brass coupling. That seems to have taken care of the problem, for now. The really scary thing is that there are hundreds of thousands of gm cars "out there" in garages and on the road with deteriorating plastic gas lines! Probably some other brands, as well. An acquaintance of mine had the same gas line failure on his 1996 oldsmobile ciera.
One of the vehicle's fuel lines leaked. *nm fuel line was unprotected.
The fuel line failed. The dealer had no idea when the part would be available.
While driving on highway, two times engine stalled, and one time while stopping at stop sign it stalled
Consumer complaining of vehicle continually shaking/vibrating and hesitating while driving. Vehicle has been in/out of dealer shop on numerous times. Dealer informed consumer the problem is the cheap gas she puts into the vehicle.
Fuel injector #6 failed.
Short in fuel pump caused vehicle to stall and loss of brakes.
Fuel pump failed, causing leakage.
Auto-tran: vehicle suddenly loses power while driving uphill or while passing, lurches forward when started in park, tries to lurch backward while in reverse, jumps forward at high speed in drive position, nearly caused an accident. *ak also when went to have vehicle inspected it was found that a wheel alignment was needed and there was a fuel leak.
Questions about the 1996 Buick Century fuel system
Does the 1996 Buick Century have fuel system problems?
Owners have filed 11 complaints about the fuel system of the 1996 Buick Century, 14% of all its complaints.
At what mileage do 1996 Buick Century fuel system problems start?
Not enough complaints include the mileage to tell.
Was there a recall on the 1996 Buick Century fuel system?
There is no recall for this problem on this model year.
What year does the Buick Century have the most fuel system problems?
The Buick Century model years with the most fuel system complaints are 1998 (12 complaints), 1996 (11 complaints) and 1999 (11 complaints).
Other 1996 Buick Century problems
Brakes 13Steering 10Engine 9Acceleration 8Body 8Visibility 8Suspension 7Transmission 7Electrical 6Airbags 5Lights 4Locks 2Seat belts 2
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