I was getting on the on ramp for the interstate and gradually attempting to gaining speed to but my vehicle would not pick up speed.I pressed the gas pedal to the floor with no pick up. Then all of a sudden my vehicle began to pick up speed. When the vehicle got up to approximately 60 MPH it began to do the same thing again I had the accelerater pedal to the floor. I could here the vehicle idling and after some time had passed it began to pick up speed again. I've had my vehicle for four years and have kept up with the maintenance at the dealer ship. I have paid for diagnostics several times at the dealership to no avail. I took it to the dealer but they found nothing wrong with it. I have taken it more than 5 times in an attempt to rectify the problem with no success. It's not a constant thing, however it is quite dangerous as well as unsettling not knowing when or where my safety may be comprised in this vehicle. This is my second buick lacrosse which has had problems of this nature. I was hoping my problems with my 2005 buick lacrosse was an isolated incident but I'm beginning to think perhaps it wasn't. Maybe this can all be attributed to just poor workmanship with inferior product manufacturing.
2010 Buick Lacrosse acceleration complaints
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I was driving on the freeway this morning doing about 60mph in traffic and all of a sudden my car lost power. The dash or the dic went completely blank, but not before all of the chimes, and the caution alerts appearing and then I started to loose speed. Fortunately I was able to pull off to the side of the freeway. At that point I put the car in park after a minute I restarted it and continued to drive to work. This same incident occurred back in november of 2014. Coincidently I was on the freeway then too. But when I called the dealership back in november when this first happened they informed me that there was nothing that they could do unless I was able to recreate the issue. But of course I can't recreate the issue and now four months later it's happening again. I don't understand why there has not been a recall for this. Especially considering I have read other complaints for the same reason.
This is a reoccurring issue with the car shutting off completly while driving or loss of engine power.
Tl* the contact owns a 2010 buick lacrosse. The contact stated that the accelerator pedal was haphazardly depressed as the contact attempted to depress the brake pedal. The contact mentioned that the brake pedal and the accelerator pedal were too close in proximity. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 49,000.
I was traveling on the highway at 5:30am with minimal traffic. While traveling at 66mph, I put the car into cruise control. Then I pulled my foot off the gas pedal that placed it flat footed with me leg towards the seat. I am a short person. I have 3 house keys on a ring attached to the car key. I felt my knee touch the dangling keys. At that moment, the electrical system and car shut down. I had no power brakes or no power steering, etc. I was in the lane closest to the breakdown lane. I was able get the car into the breakdown lane and cost to a stop. (fortunately no traffic passed me until I finally stopped.) the ignition key and switch was in the on position when I stopped. I was able to restart the car by placing the car in park and restarting the car. I brought the car to the dealership. They looked at the car and found no error codes. They could not duplicate my problem. They told me I must have shut off the ignition switch with my knee. I attempted to do this an cannot turn the key off with my knee. I addition, my knee does not reach the switch without lifting it up at least a couple inches. I only brushed the bottom of the dangling house keys. 2010 should be included in the recall!!!
I believe the vehicle has something that may or may not ever be found by a test drive at dealer by service mechanic. I also believe this started before the posted mileage above but I do not have all paperwork from dealership that serviced it. Vehicle will bog down after you start to accelerate on hills, around curves, at take off. Sometimes this enables traction control light but not always. I will have no acceleration for seconds and is very unsafe as the last time it did it I was coming around a dangerous curve with a dump truck behind me and couldn't speed up because had no power when pushing the gas pedal. I also had it happen as I was passing another vehicle and it all but stopped beside the vehicle I was attempting to pass. No acceleration can lead to severe injury or death depending on circumstances at time of incident. I have take to dealer more than 3 times for same issue to be told its nothing and they cant duplicate the problem. Even I know that some cars have issues that are never fixed or found! I have contacted gm to get the run around for weeks then finally be told nothing can be done because they aren't prepared to drop the engine because it may cost $4000. If I get hurt in this vehicle it is going to cost a whole heck of a lot more than that! I do not want the engine dropped I am filing a lemon law complaint and will consider a dealer buy back but I am not dropping this because I am not imagining this as the dealer said... I have read same issues online so I know I am not the first with the buick problem. The car is unsafe so we will just let the attorneys hash this out!
Quiet often, the edge of my shoe will catch on the rh side of the brake pedal when moving from the gas to the brake or vice-versa. The area of the foot impacted is near the ball of the foot. The issue seems worse when wearing dress shoes (as opposed to athletic shoes). This has raised some safety concerns for me - especially if I were to need to react quickly in an emergency situation. I don't know if the brake pedal needs to be moved away from the gas pedal laterally or if the two pedals need to be brought more into the same plane. I have submitted my concern to the manufacturer as well, and have not received feedback at this time.
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