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1992 Buick Roadmaster Electrical problems

Owners have filed 4 complaints about the 1992 Buick Roadmaster's electrical system with NHTSA - 5% of all its complaints, most recently on February 24, 2000. They describe 1 crash, 0 fires and 1 injury. Dead batteries, warning lights, wiring, alternators, infotainment and electronic module failures.

Complaints
4
Recalls
0
Crashes
1
Fires
0
Injuries
1
Deaths
0

Electrical complaints

BrakesElectrical systemCrash1 injury

Complete, total brake failure. The only wat to stop was a light pole. Afterwards the varkes worked again. Contacted buick the answer there is no warranty left on ther brake shoes! Buick dealer must look at it. Buick dealer nothing wrong, car sent back. I took it for state inspection, total brake failure while inspector does test drive. Back to buick - no problems found then after another week at buick the electrical system fails. We take ir to an independent mech. - The b dealer damaged the computer system, our...

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mech fixes it. No break problem found, keeps testing - total break failure. Now more often. In the end he found a bosch relay full of fire ants. Current: the relay is removed - no more break failures - no more abs! Btw there are a lot of fire ants in texas. I will never buy another gm vehicle. The way gm treats customers is insulting. Ps the date of acc maybe off but there is a police report. It took 6 month to get the problem fixed. *Ak( dot number: tire size: 225hr15 )

Filed Incident Service brakes, hydraulic · Electrical systemNHTSA 719166
Electrical systemBody, doors & structure

While driving vehicle, the bolts came off vehicle. Had replaced the battery. Restarted vehicle & it started to shake. Checked under hood & noticed that the bolts had snapped off. There was no brace holding starter to the engine. *Ak

Filed Incident Electrical system · StructureNHTSA 833902
Electrical system

Experienced an electral short where she wasn't able to get out of the vehicle. *Ak consumer was driving home, when there was a loud pop, consumer thought somehting had hit windshield, but nothing had, consumer stated it was very hot that day and she tried to work the power windows and adjust the seat but nothing happened, on arriving consumer used the manual locks to get out of vehicle, consumer had husband to check the fuse box but nothing was blown, the problem was when the vehicle was built there was only one...

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circuit breaker when it should have been two, consumer replaced the one and purchased the missing one also, dealer advised consumer it would take 2 weeks to check out the electrical system.*Jb

Filed Incident Electrical systemNHTSA 986540
Electrical system

Vehicle stalled, starting instantly after stall. *Tw

Filed Incident Electrical systemNHTSA 483886

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