Tl*the contact owns a 2005 pontiac g6. The contact noticed that the steering wheel was extremely difficult to turn. She also experienced roughness while driving, accompanied by a loud, indescribable noise. Lastly, it was difficult to remove the key from the ignition. She took the vehicle to the dealer and had the drive-shaft replaced along with a sensor in the instrument cluster. Immediately after the repair, the failure resurfaced. Speed was not a factor. The failure mileage was 31,100 and current mileage was 49,000.
2005 Pontiac G6 electrical complaints
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I own a 2005 pontiac g6 which I purchased from a dealer after it had been leased for 1 year. The vehicle had 12000 miles on it when purchase. Numerous problems have occurred with this vehicle after purchase. Starting with a noise, clunk in the steering. This has been in the repair shop for upwards to 7-8 times, each time new repairs done on different parts. This problem has never been resolved. Now at 64500 miles the noise is still there after repairs only 4000 miles ago. Starting in october of 2007 I began having problems with the brake lights and cruise control. Brake lights working only sporadically as well as the cruise control. There has been documented repairs on the is of 7-8 times as well. This problem also has never been resolved. On september 17, 2008 my car was involved in a rear-end automobile accident in most part and no doubt due to faulty brake light system. Many other problems have occurred with this vehicle as well including poor sunvisor manufacturing, leaky map lights in overhead console, rapid wear of brake pads and rotors, rapid tire wear, starting drags when starting, occasionally the car will not shift out of park when the car is running and brake pedal is applied.
I am the owner of a 2005 pontiac g6 four door sedan . For the past two months the engine check light has come on along with a warning on the audio display showing "power steering". These incidents were infrequent and no particular reason was found for the warning. Up until last week I attributed the problem to a faulty sensor. Last week I started my car and the check engine light came on, the "power steering was displayed in the audio system, and I had no power steering to for the vehicle. I turned the vehicle off then back on and the problem was gone. On saturday 08/30/2008 while driving on a straight road the warning lights came on again and I lost power steering in the car again. I pulled to the side of the road, turned the car off then back on and the problem was gone. On 09/03/2008 I started my car and the warning lights again came on and I again had no power steering. I again turned the car off then back on and the problem was gone. I then drove to red hoagland pontiac in bradenton, fl for repairs where I was told two modules needed to be replaced and it would cost me $1,095.00. I read a recent blog that stated there had been about 19 similar complaints for this vehicle and that a recall would probably be coming soon from your agency. The cost of the repair is outrageous but more importantly if there is a serious problem with the power steering this vehicle should be recalled.
Car wont start after sitting for several hours or it wont start after the driver display has gone haywire (showing errors, AC blows hot air, gas gauge goes to empty, unable to view your speed, etc.).
When I turn the ignition to start my car it stalls, putters and after a few tries it will start.
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!
2005 pontiac g6 gt: within the first year of ownership, we had the vehicle into the dealership twice for a leaking panoramic roof. The second time it leaked, the dash shorted out. Then at about 36,000 miles we started hearing popping noises when steering at low speeds. At around 42,000 miles the popping noises got significantly worse. It was at this point, we decided to take the vehicle back to the dealership for service. The man at the service desk seemed to know right away what was wrong with the vehicle without even diagnosing it. He told us that he had seen this problem in a lot of g6s. I asked him if it was something to worry about and he said no. He told me it would cost $550 to fix it and that the cost would be on me as I was out of warranty on mileage. After I returned home I decided to do some surfing on the internet to see if anyone else was experiencing g6 steering issues. I found page after page of people experiencing similar steering issues. In fact, I noticed that the federal safety agency was even investigating gm for g6 power steering failure affecting some 176k vehicles. Frankly, this scared me to death! So much so, that the very next day I went down to the local honda dealership and traded in the g6 for a 2008 honda accord ex-l (5-star rating). I took it in the shorts on the trade-in, but I cannot tell you how happy I am to get rid of this nightmare! Parting question: since when is ?power steering failure? Not worthy of a recall. Shame on gm!
My wife was almost killed yesterday when the steering locked up at 50mph+ while driving down the road. She has complained of steering issues/noises/control in the past, but never had it lock up completely. The car was still running, was difficult to stop, and she was almost hit by two different vehicles. This is the last of double digit issues with this vehicle. I will not take it back from the dealership. When the tow truck showed up the steering light went off and worked again.
Car has had numerous problems from not starting to having the brakes replaced every 3,000 miles. Dealer has been good about taking care of repairs and maintenance but I feel that this car has been nothing but a problem from the day I picked it up. I am at 27,000 miles and on at least my 9th set of brakes/rotors. It also has what I now refer to as the gm sputter start. If it does start it sometimes doesn't start on the first try and sometimes catches and sputters before it starts. Hate this car.
Automatic start on vehicle failed to work. Took car to dealership, they stated they needed to order a part. When the part was in, returned to dealership to have it installed. Left the location, the automatic start turned on the car. When I returned home that evening and was ready to go out again, the automatic start turned on the car but failed to remain on for more than 5 minutes. Later on in the same evening, the automatic start failed to turn on the vehicle, but did turn on the lock lights. Returned to the dealership where they stated the car started with no problem. Left dealership and car refused to start by automatic start. Returned again to dealership where mechanic witnessed the automatic start failure. They again tested it, and once again, the vehicle turned on for only a few minutes. The dealership said they spoke with technical support, and technical support advised it was probably cell phone interference. I'm apparently stuck with it working that way, however, I turned off my cell phone to start the vehicle w/ automatic start and it still failed to do so.
Tl* - the contact stated that the steering seizes intermittently on his 2005 pontiac gt. The failure speed has varied, however, he could tell when the steering wheel was about to seize because the steering wheel would vibrate and shift to the left on its own. The failure mileage was 13,000 miles. The steering light would come on after the failure. The contact took the vehicle to the dealer a total of three times because of the steering problems. The dealer could not find anything wrong with the vehicle. The key became stuck in the ignition, the dealer replaced the ignition. The repair invoice did not state that the ignition was replaced. The vehicle operated without incident for 2-3 months. The contact is now experiencing the same failure. The contact has the repair invoices.
Starter does not always function properly. Sometimes the car starts other times it does not. It drags on kind of like a hard start. The vehicle was taken to my local dealership in february. Waited clear until 09/08/2006 and gm had a program developed to get it fixed. Guess what it did it again today on 09/13/2006. Now my car goes back to the dealership to get looked at again. This is getting ridiculous.
Sometime when vehicle is started the engine drags and is slow to turn over.
When turning the ignition to start the vehicle, the vehicle does not start right away. It sounds like it does not want to start, or won't turn over, following which it does eventually start. It has not failed to start the vehicle as of yet, however it has done this several dozen times (probably at least once a week)since I have had the vehicle in the past year. I have mentioned the problem to the dealer, but they are never able to recreate the problem, so nothing has been done to fix this problem.
Electrical. The information/radio/temp reading malfunctions and resets itself. The temperature reading will stay at 77 degrees for hours (when temp is other than that). While listening to a cd, and hitting the eject button - display reads "no disc". Radio will reset all stations and time. Radio display will flash lines or not even come on at times. Occasionally, in warm weather, on initial start up, RPM and engine will rev close to 2000 RPM. Back lighting for comfort controls have changed from red light to orange. ** the electrical problems, in my opinion, go further than radio information, but apparently to the function of temperature control while starting the car - as stated in warm weather 85 degrees, it start as if temp is 20 degrees out. This has been in for service 3 times. Two times the radio with the information display was replaced and another occasion the temp sensor was replaced. Problem continues.
My 2005 pontiac g6's driver's side sun visor had an electrical short which caused smoke to come from the headliner area. The dealership has had my vehicle since then and have been waiting for a part to come in. The dealer suspects that this is not an isolated incident due to them not being able to find a replacement part. I suspect that this incident could have started a serious fire.
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