The entire time I have owned this car, there have been issues with the ABS - especially when the road is wet and driving down hill. When applying the brakes in these conditions, the car does not always stop even when pushing the brake pedal to the floor. You will here a clicking or grinding type of noise. It's not the pads or rotors because it happens when they have been replaced. In these conditions, I have to make sure I have plenty of room so I won't hit the car in front of me. I have on several occasions not been able to stop at a red light and gone through the intersection. It happens more frequently in icy conditions even when driving super slow. From reading other online complaints, I see I'm not the only one. I believe this is a manufacturer's safety defect.
Buick Skylark abs comes on
22 of the 477 owner complaints about the Buick Skylark describe aBS light or ABS activating, most of them for the 1997 model year.
- owner complaints
- 22
- worst model year
- 1997
By model year
- 19981
- 19977
- 19962
- 19952
- 19943
- 19934
- 19923
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What owners say
The ABS light illuminated on the dashboard.
Abs brake light illuminated and stayed on. Vehicle has to be shut down and restarted to disengage. Dealer has repaired problem once, but it seemed to have reoccurd. *ak consumer stated that the problem still exist.
Ongoing problem with ABS engaging on wet roads or intermittently on dry road. Vehicle been in/out of dealer shop on three occasions, and problem still reoccurring. Please feel free to provide any further details on this matter.
Abs light would flash while traveling. When making turns vehicle would also stall. Also, when depressing brakes vehicle would go into extended stopping distance. Please provide further information.
Whenever driving ABS brake light would come on. Radio would fail to work after turning it on. Been to dealer & informed by mechanic that problem was electrical wiring. Would need to break down wire component to locate the problem.
Recall 97v059000: consumer was traveling on the highway 35mph and ABS brake system blew up in her face. There was white smoke inside of vehicle brake system was grabbing slowly. Consumer drove vehicle home very slowly. Consumer stated that she had very little braking power.
Intermittantly, the brake pedal goes to floor while braking, extending stoppping distance. Goodyear and monroe mufflers/ brakes unable to diagnose, gm dealership unable to find a problem. I am returning car to dealership to have ABS and master cylinder replaced (cost of about $1500.00) because I don't know what else to do. Hopefully, this will fix the problem, it just is not safe to drive this way.
Abs system has never worked properly since ownership, replaced brakes once, however continues to lock up in the right rear wheel area and makes noise. Mjs
Since I bought the car 01/17/97, I have had numerous problems: emergenchy/parking brake pops out when parking the car and putting parking brake on, brakes fail to perform properly and brake pads wear down excessivly, dash board (check engine, ABS, ets, seat belt light blinks when wearing and doesnt blink when not wearing occassionally, theft system light comes on but I do not have a theft system)and dome lights come on sparatically, sometimes the dome light comes on when car of off and no one near car, recall was performed since than it only happens about half as much. 5 days after purchasing car the key was stuck in ignition would not turn or come out, called buick they told me to jiggle the steering and manually push the car back and forth than try it, recently when it happened we tried for 3 hours and they suggested, as I quote gm road side assistance for us "to pound on the key about 20 times like you were pounding a nail with a hammer" we were stuck 50 miles from home and had to have car towed to nearest dealer. On the electrical sometimes the clock and radio stations will reset without battery touched or anything else touched, window motors go bad, while under warranty dealer replaced inside drivers side mirror bezel (only the inside plastic triangle part) cause it was coming off, the work order shows new part put in but they just stuck a bunch of epoxy in it and stuck the old one back on. When complaining constantly to the service mgr its usually "you have a bad battery" "a fuse" "module" at one time they changed the alarm module twice within a matter of 4 - 6 months leading me to believe that because lights are not on all the time, it happens sparatically that they are just replacing simple parts to show they repaired problem, sales manager said fuses and modules are commonly being replaced. Twice while driving about 35 mpr, engine turned off and all lights came on, stearing locked. I hear clicking and/or rubbing sounds coming from front whleft s
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the Buick Skylark abs
Why does the abs come on in the Buick Skylark?
Owners who report it most often also describe brake failure, multiple warning lights and pulls to one side.
Which Buick Skylark years have aBS light or ABS activating problems?
The model years with the most reports are 1997 (7 complaints), 1993 (4 complaints) and 1992 (3 complaints).
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