2013 Buick Verano: jerking or lurching

Filed May 26, 2020 · Driver assistance, Electrical · 96,711 miles · OH

Making a left hand turn, wrench light came on, stabilitrak light came on, middle console went out and yanked the entire car to the right. Luckily both hands were on the wheel and no cars in the lane to the right, was able to keep the car in the lane barely. Stopped at the car wash, felt the car jump a bit. Drove another 3 minutes home and as I was backing into the my parking spot my middle console went out and came back on several times with approx 4 sec delays being off, cars power steering was off and on constantly, trying to turn the wheel to the left to pull forward a little the car kept jerking forward as I kept trying to turn left but the wheel kept acting like it was hitting a wall, the stabilitrak light kept flashing. Trying to turn it right and back up the middle console kept flashing and the wheel kept jerking. Finally got the car parked and the neighbor heard me on the phone and stepped out to ask if I was ok, when I was trying to park she heard a huge crash at that time and thought it was an accident of some sort. Today was the first day for all of this. The middle console has been flashing on and off for a few months and the stabilitrak light started coming on last weekend.

Filed Mar 13, 2019 · Engine, Fuel system · 96,000 miles · IL

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.

Filed Mar 1, 2019 · 75,550 miles · IL

My 2013 buick verano has been acting weird for about a month now. I first noticed it because the engine light came on one day on my way to work and when I left work it was off. Maybe two days later when I started my car and pulled of it just turned off. So I started it again(starts up fine) and I put in to drive and once I pull off it turned off. It did about 4 times before the car would run normally. This happen twice in the first week, and then it was everyday since then. I did notice that it was struggling to get it out of first gear about the third week. Also when I was on my way to the store and I stopped at a red light and when it turned green and I tried to accelerate it just turned off. But after that rode fine. After that incident I noticed yesterday that everytime I stop now the car will turn off and also if I go anything over 35mph the car jerks as if it wants to stop. This is very unsafe. Also the engine lights comes on and off. And I did google to see if anyone else has had this problem so I can see what the problem could possibly be and found that many people with this same year make and model of car have this issue. I also read that they had recalls for this same year make and model two months after I purchased the vehicle but never received a letter of notice, maybe because it wasn't for my VIN. But with an unsafe vehicle issue such as this, something has to be done.

Filed Jun 20, 2018 · Driver assistance, Electrical · 49,768 miles · TN

Takata recall. I the procees of driving and turning the dash board lights up and its a symbol with a small wrench . The car jerks I a whole new direction. And then another symbol appears and says power steering service and it is really hard to drive and turn while on the highway or street.

Filed Mar 7, 2018 · Electrical · 73,000 miles · IL

1.) my car reduced speed on the highway driving 55. When pulling over the car would not accelerate and turned off. After being off for 20 minutes on the side of the road the vehicle drove normally. After a week carmax service could not find the reason for this incident. 2.) the epb warning light flashed while driving on a city street and slows the vehicle down. I came to a stoplight and my car died. It was towed to carmax service and after a week they were not able to duplicate the problem and fix the issue. 3.) while driving on a city street the epb service light started flashing in my car jerked forward I would not accelerate. 4.) I was merging onto the highway when the power system light turned on and my doors started locking and unlocking on its own. The vehicle would not accelerate and turned off. After about four minutes it turned back on and drove fine but buick dealer could not find a problem. Dealer had the car for 10days.

Filed Nov 30, 2014 · Engine · 11,678 miles · PA

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?