Since I bought the car it consumes an excessive amount of oil, it makes it clicking noise if it gets slow talk to the dealership at least twice and was told that this is just what these engines sound like after doing research I've noticed that there are multiple complaints about the same issue, now I'm having a problem with the car just shutting off especially if I am coming to a stop or at a red light, today I was making a left over a four-lane highway to get onto my road the car just shut off and I almost got keep on buying an oncoming car because it stopped in the middle of the road, after doing some online searching this is a common problem apparently, it is out of warranty and dealership told me nothing they can do unless I want to pay for it, there's 54,000 mi on the car so this should not be happening, when I bought the car they told me that the engine is supposed to sound like that even though my gut told me otherwise but hey they are the pros right, also the first time I took it to the dealership they told me that the excessive oil consumption was not a problem, just to keep an eye on it and top it off if it gets low...what's completely contradicts what they told me when I bought it because they told me because it's full synthetic that I would not have often, me almost getting t-boned because my car owed is in my opinion a serious safety concern and the manufacturer of this car ignoring the problem is going to cause somebody to get killed
2013 Buick Verano engine complaints
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The car started burning oil at a rate of 1 quart every 1,000 miles at 86,000 miles and so I took it to the dealership where I purchased it new and also had it do all of the routine maintenance as well. This was at mike juneau brookfield gmc buick and they told me to bring it in everytime it got a quart low and that there was no concern with me continuing to drive it as long as I monitored the oil. The timing chain broke while driving at 40 MPH and ruined the entire engine 4 months later at 91,000 miles. This is a known common issue with these gm engines and I beleive some are even recalled when in chevy vehicles. The dealership and manufacturer have acknowledged the problem.
Excessive oil consumption problem. I own a 2013 buick verano with a 2.4l engine, approximately 100,000 miles. We have recently noticed when checking the oil in-between oil changes that there was no oil on the dipstick. E.g.., at 40 or 50% life left for oil change, there was no oil on the dipstick. In the past the car has never used or leaked a drop of oil. In doing some additional research, this is a common problem with other buick's with the same engine.. Buick has acknowledged this issue with other similar buick vehicles with the same engine by issuing a technical service bulletin 13-06-01-003h for other models of buicks with the details on how to rebuild the engine and fix the problem. We called the buick dealer and they indicated there is no recall for the verano but recognize it is a problem with the car.
Tl* the contact owns a 2013 buick verano. The contact noticed that the vehicle was losing oil. The vehicle was taken to jack winegardner chevrolet (11001 indian head hwy, fort washington, md 20744) where an oil consumption test was performed. The vehicle was not repaired and the failure persisted, which caused the vehicle to shut down. The vehicle was towed back to the dealer where it was diagnosed that there was metal in the oil that may cause the engine to shut down. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 90,130.
The key has gotten stuck in the ignition several times. This prevents the car from moving and turning off completely. At one point the car began to roll as I was attempting to get out to get assistance. I was eventually able to go onto youtube and discovered the issue was consistent with the chevy malibu, so I used the same technique described in the youtube video to remove the key. The same issue occurred on the evening on february 21, 2019. The valet supervisor went to retrieve my car and was unable to remove the key out of the ignition and the car would not move into the park gear. I would move into drive, neutral and reverse but not park. I believe my car is also impacted under the following recall number:50490 and 50491. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
My vehicle starts jerking when I get off expressway. Or at red light or conjested traffic. Car has no code been on at least 7 machine no code buick cant find the problem.
Head gasket, piston kit, seal, fod bolt, valve cover, sealer, and coolant / car was not in motion during the time of discovery
Warning light come on and and the car won't start. I just park for a day or so, than it starts up like nothing is wrong with it.
The car shuts off while in motion driving down interstate or any road; sometimes the car won't say a word when trying to crank until after a few tries; plugged into computer but gives no codes
Vehicle, traveling 45mph in traffic stream on highway, suddenly lost all power, including engine, radio, AC fan, and dashboard lights. After coasting to roadside, still moving, radio, AC fan and dashboard lights suddenly self restored. After stopping, transmission put in park, start button pushed, engine started, everything back to normal.
If I remote start my car it doesn't cut on and for the last few weeks my car hasn't been starting instantly or I have to try numerous times to get it to start, when it does start all the panel lights stay on, the hazard lights come on without me turning them on as well as the windshield wipers. My rearview camera goes black in the middle of me backing out and turns back on once I place the vehicle in drive. While driving the whole screen turns black and the radio works sometimes. Also when I turn on my A/C the engine gets louder and it makes a weird noise until I turn the A/C off, the A/C doesn't get as cold as it use to and my heat gets hotter than it used to sometimes when I ride with the heat the car turns off. All of this started happening on april 18, 2016
The car only has 20,000 miles on it. I went to the grocery and drug store which is only 4 miles from my home. I pulled into the garage and noticed the fan was running (engine fan) hard. But assumed it was normal for any car to cool down the engine. I went in the house and the fan had stopped on the car. I had to go back into the garage about 10 minutes later and the car fan was on again! A blowing full blast. I opened the door of the car, looked at the dash, saw my fan for the air in the car was at the highest level, turned that down but the car fan outside continued to run. I ran into the house, got my keys and locked the car which turned off the engine fan. My concern is that if this happened and continued to run, my house is an attached garage, it could easily have started a fire. I have called gm and I am waiting on a call back but I concerned not only for my welfare but everyone. I have never seen a car do this. I do not have on star nor sirrus activated so it isn't like someone could have done something remotely.
2013 buick verano, VIN [xxx]. Originally purchased in minnesota. Have had multiple problems. First, car was "hard-shifting" like it was having a really hard time locating the next gear to shift into. The hard shift occurs between 15-25 MPH, and again between 50-60 MPH. It is causing the car to accelerate and act very sluggishly. Have not had a single problem with this car until a long road trip relocating to utah in march 2015 that LED up to all these new problems. Dealer says diagnostic shows nothing wrong, but when test driving, can feel and hear the hard shift. Attempted to fix. Problems went away for 2 months and then returned in late may / early june 2015. Second, when A/C is on full blast inside car and we use remote start to start the car, the car idles fine for 10 seconds. Then as soon as the A/C system kicks on in the car, the engine rev's up from 800 RPM's (normal idle) to about 1,500 RPM's and the engine is very loud. The dealer states "diagnostic computer says nothing is wrong." we can hear how loud it is, and those are the cooling fans, but it's supposed to come back down to normal idle after a few minutes. We can have the car idling for 10+ minutes and it does not reduce in noise volume or RPM level. It continues to idle very high RPM's and does not sound like any other buick on the gm dealership lot. Dealer mechanic's can hear there is a problem but refuse to fix it because their stupid computers don't say anything is wrong. So now we are experiencing 2 issues - the loud rev RPM noise in idle which is making the engine very labored sounding, and the hard-shifting problem that still hasn't gone away. There has to be something wrong with this vehicle's transmission, power train, or cooling system but of course gm won't fix it or recall it. I can't even find a recall list newer than 12/31/14.
Steering)- the steering wheel seems to "stick" at speeds from 40 MPH and upwards to 80 MPH. Steering seems to have fluid, non-catching motion while driving short distances, however, after driving long distances, or more often than usual throughout the day, the wheel seems to stick, and takes more effort than usual to steer in the intended direction. Vehicle stays straight for awhile, but veers off like normal, but to steer vehicle to remain in lane is when the sticking occurs mostly. Issue may intertwine with next incident involving the front right axle seal. Other)- 5/19/2014, mileage 25727 - took vehicle to a dealership who stated that the front passenger axle seal is leaking and recommended taking to nearest gm dealership for warranty repair. Gm dealership stated that the axle seal wasn't leaking, but was just "wet." returned to first dealership a few months later who stated the same axle seal leaking issue, gm dealership stated the axle seal was wet. I fear that the failure to acknowledge, and repair, the leaking axle seal could be a result of the steering wheel sticking. Failure to repair could also lead to part malfunction/failure which could lead to vehicle crashing. Engine) - engine seems to always run loud, like the fan is on high for climate control, even when climate control is off. Gm dealership stated it was a fan to cool the engine down, and runs when car is driven for a long period of time. I hear it all the time, and the vehicle seems to be hotter than what would be expected to be coming from that area. Uncomfortable heat is how I would describe it. Engine always runs loud currently at 48,000 miles, regardless of driving period. Fire danger could be a risk.
While driving on a suburban street, engine and electrical system shut down. There was no warning. I was driving about 30 MPH, when engine turned itself off, dashboard went dark, turn signal did not work, and steering became more difficult. I drifted to the curb, and after a minute restarted the car with no problem; it has a push-button starter. Dealer can find nothing wrong with car. Dealer says it may be a small animal (a rat or squirrel) living in the car?s engine compartment at night, and chewing on electrical lines. Dealer cannot, however, find any damaged wires. When car was about 2 months old, had a similar incident when radio and ?intellilink? System cut out without warning. When I pushed radio button, radio came back on and operated normally. We bought this car because of the safety features; now I am afraid to drive it on the freeway.
I was driving in vernon bc and coming to a stop light when the engine quit. I had to stop put car in park and restart. The problem occured in a parking lot about ten minutes later. I called the dealer and they said if no engine light on there was nothing that could be done. I drove for over 2000 miles and the fuel pump became noisy and that was changed. All was well until dec.1 2014 when driving in florida the car stalled while slowing for a stop light. Put in park and started again. Called dealer and they can't help. The only other thing was the temperature was about 85 f all three times.
The car had seemed a bit "sluggish" or "draggy" but I thought it was possibly from the cold weather. After about two days of this, we were traveling out of town for thanksgiving. At a stoplight, as I was slowing to a stop, my car just died. The radio and heat went off and the car just coasted to a stop. I put the car in park to start it but just got an awful grinding sound. I tried again and it started but was very jerky. I thought maybe I got some bad gas as it happened again that day. The next day I added some drygas and filled the tank with a better grade gas. It behaved for two days but it happened again today although I only slowed down to get off of a highway when it did it. Luckily it was early on sunday with very little traffic or it could have been bad. Is this going to be another gm sweep under the rug until enough people die again or what?
Driving down back road 40-45 MPH, at night, lights and radio on, with my boyfriend when everything went pitch black, no lights on car at all, engine shut off, very scary. I coasted to stop, hit start engine button it restarted, like normal. All lights came back on, no further incident. Took to dealer could find nothing wrong. They said when you drive car it erases data???? Now im scared to drive car. When car quit, lights shut off nothing showed on dash or otherwise.
The engine stalled while driving on a city street at 35 MPH. I was able to turn into a driveway and park. The engine started the first time I pushed the start button. Dealer could find nothing wrong but suggested it might be the type of fuel. I started using the type fuel they suggested and kept the gas tank half full. This has happened twice since may. Again on july 13th the engine stalled when I pulled up and stopped at a stop light. Took it to the dealer, they kept it three days and could find nothing wrong. The latest incident happened two weeks ago august 5th while driving down the street at 40 MPH. Was able to pull over to the curb but this time the car wouldn't start the first time I pushed the button. I tried a second and third time and I then took time to get my phone to call for help and decided I would try one more time and this time it started. Dealer kept it 5 days and could find nothing wrong. They called the technicians at gm and they had no answer. The customer service contact person at gm told me they have never had any complaints with this problem for the verano. They must not be looking at this website!! I am afraid to drive this car. I can only imagine what would happen if I were driving down the interstate in front of an 18 wheeler and this happened. I hope something will be done about this.
While driving my vehicle up a small hill at 30mph a beep sounded, I checked the dashboard for a low fuel notification or some other alert. The dashboard was totally dark. The start/stop engine button was yellow.the vehicle had shut off while I was driving. I coasted to the side of the road, pulled over and put the car in park.I restarted the car without any difficulties. There were no indications of an issue, such as the check engine light.
Was driving on route headed towards harrisburg on I 83 south, and the engine cut out, not once, but 3 times. The car totally lost all power. Each time I pulled off to the side of the road, trembling and praying that the car would restart. *tr all instrument panels went out, no warning lights to warn of what may come next.. Called the dealership and have to wait a week to get in.
Tl* the contact owns a 2013 buick verano. The contact stated while driving 50 MPH and making a turn the vehicle stalled without any warning. The contact stated that the failure occurred multiple times. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for diagnostic testing and the technician was unable to diagnose the failure. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 6,700. The current mileage was 6,900. R
Tl* the contact owns a 2013 buick verano (n/a). The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the contact accidentally bumped the engine on/off button located in the left side of the dashboard, close to the radio and GPS. As a result, the vehicle turned off. The contact was concerned that it was a safety hazard, and believed that a vehicle should not be turned off by pressing a button, while in motion. The failure and current mileage was 210.
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