2005 Pontiac G6: grinding or squealing brakes

Filed Aug 26, 2015 · Steering · 89,000 miles · TX

I own a 2005 pontiac g6. While driving at slow speeds, a clanking and grinding noise is heard when making a right turn. My vehicle was taken to chris' brakes in weatherford tx, who diagnosed that the rack and pinion and intermediate shaft needed to be replaced. It has not been repaired yet.

Filed Aug 20, 2015 · Steering · 65,000 miles · FL

Tl* the contact owns a 2005 pontiac g6. While driving at slow speeds, a clanking and grinding noise was present when making a right turn. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who diagnosed that the rack and pinion and intermediate shaft needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 65,000.

Filed Feb 8, 2011 · Brakes · 21,250 miles · VA

For past six months, my 2005 pontiac g6 would lurch forward and back slightly when I would come to a complete stop. Car has low miles (now at 21,525). However, I heard a severe squeal/grinding when pulling my car out from parking space. I took the car to gm dealership . Dealer informed me that both front and rear rotors need to be resurfaced. Rear brake pads should be replaced as well. Decided to do all pads, resurface all rotors. Based on what I have seen reported elsewhere on internet, this is a serious problem with the g6 brake system, or, oem rotors that were installed.

Filed Oct 9, 2008 · Brakes, Engine · 47,200 miles · PA

I bought my car on june 2, 2008, when we left the dealership we could smell oil burning, we thought they just overfilled the fluids, on thursday, june 5th, 2008 while going to lunch, my transmission gave out in my car, it went back to the dealership for eleven (11) days while they replaced the transmission. When we got it back from the transmission repair the air conditioner was no longer working and the brakes were squealing. We took it back to the garage a week and a half later for this and they said everything was fine. In the beginning of august, we noticed that the oil kept going low. On august 14th, 2008 we had to take it back to the garage because there was horrendous, mass amount of oil collecting under the motor. The garage kept my car again, because the rear main crank shaft seal went in the engine. They replaced the rear main crank shaft seal, it was in the garage until august 21, 2008, on this day when we picked the car up, we had to take it right back to the garage because it was hesitating to start and the transmission was shifting hard. The garage determined that wires were unplugged on the engine. On, september 5th while leaving work the car broke down on me again, this time the engine blew in the car. The car was in the garage until september 17th, 2008, while they replaced the engine. So in the few months that I have owned the car it has been in the garage for almost a month getting repair after repair done to it.

Filed Aug 16, 2008 · Body, Brakes · 74,600 miles · NY

The seal on my panoramic roof leaked during a torrential downpour. I did not drive the car for a few days because of having surgery. 2 days after the rain storm when I opened my car I found an inch of water covering the floor and mold covering most of the interior. Mold was also located inside the air conditioning system when turned on. The heated seats were ruined as were any electrical devices inside the car. All personal items and infant seat were also ruined. I am still waiting to hear what is going to be done. They are trying to convince me it can be cleaned, but with the amount of mold and my existing asthma it is a detriment to my health to be inside the vehicle. I also have an infant which cannot come into the vehicle at all because of said mold. I still don't know after contacting gm if they will fix the problem or if I need to scrap the car. This is the second problem I have had, however the first involved the brake rotors grinding too quickly and causing the car to shake violently when braking at any speed. I have had to have the brakes done at least every 3 months to correct the problem for the past 2 and a half years.

Filed Nov 24, 2007 · Body, Brakes · 1,000 miles · MA

Too many complaints to write them all up, here are a few: engine makes metal grinding "whooshing" noise independent from acceleration-dealer cannot replicate, warped rotors-dealer wanted over $1,000 to fix, have had radio replaced 5 times due to disc errors-dealer keeps replacing, had steering rack and water pump replaced at 30,000 miles-dealer covered, sensor that turns on lights went-dealer replaced, power steering problems, hard to turn and rough, but no "lock-ups" like others have had(thankfully)-dealer cannot replicate, had drivers side front panel sunroof drain clog, water soaked front carpet(3 inches of water)-dealer fixed but left me with a moldy carpet!, engine flutters/stutters to a start on random-dealer has no answer for me, trunk lid was scraping rear bumper due to latches being tightened wrong-dealer fixed, headlamp full of condensation-dealer fixed, car ridiculously bad in the rain and snow, stability control makes loud grinding noises and causes the car to buck, replaced tires with snow tires, still bad-dealer has no answer for me, large deep scratch across windshield right in the line of view from contour oem windshield wipers, dealer said too bad. Those are just a few, I cant remember them all, this car is such a lemon. Im sticking with toyota from now on! I learned my lesson!

Filed Jul 16, 2007 · Brakes · CT

Brakes grind and car shakes and vibrates when applying brakes when trying to slow down. This has been happening since I leased the car and I have brought it back for service only to be told that there is nothing wrong. The last time I brought it the said that they "ground down the drums". Not sure why a car would have to have this done with less than 15,000 miles but the car still performs the same and it almost feels like the brakes are going to fail. They still say nothing is wrong with them.

Filed Jun 3, 2005 · Body · 3,300 miles · TX

1) driving my pontiac g6 onto a regular driveway slope 2) forward metal impingements (only driver side affected) attached to the chassis was bent back due to the I-beam structure "catching" the concrete driveway slope. Consequence of design failure caused the entire engine cradle to shift and there by allowing for an increase in damage possibilities to engine block and radiator to occur. Also with I-beam structure being bent downward it has created a hanging piece of metal to possibly catch road debris (could lead to tire failure) and allow slope changes in the road to once again catch the bent metal to create even more damage. 3) the dealership suggested replacing to the whole engine cradle. I suggest that gm should attach a metal bar horizontally to the two front metal impingements to effectively create a grind bar, greatly reducing the possibilities of metal bending causing a road hazard and engine cradle replacement.