I bought a Buick Century from my parents a couple of years ago. It was in tremendous condition, spotless. But in that period of time, the following has happened: The plastic gaskets GM uses in their vehicles deteriorated causing a major repair, the power windows failed, the catalytic converter went twice, I am told the anti-freeze used in these vehicles is faulty and is slowly eating away at the interior of the rubber hoses causing a horrible sludge problem in the radiator. And if all that isn't costly enough, the paint is literally falling off my beautiful car. Buick of course will do nothing, everything is out of warranty. I miss my Toyota vehicles that I easily got 200,000+ miles on with none of these horrible issues. I would never recommend or purchase a GM vehicle again. What a piece of **.
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I have a 1994 Buick Regal in white color that was recalled due to a paint defect. Back around June of 1999 the paint started peeling off the trunk. I saw the way it was coming off and suspected a paint defect. I looked it up on the internet and saw that there was a recall. I brought it in to Buick and was told I was too late for the recall. I should have brought it in earlier. It wasn't peeling then.
The trunk cost me $300 to fix. Just last year the paint on the hood started pealing off and then it started to peal on the roof of the car as well. There were two 8-inch circles of paint peeling. While walking to the car the other day I noticed the whole roof was peeling off in sheets about the size of basketballs. By the end of the day the wind had lifted all the paint off the roof and much of the hood.
The trunk cost me $300 to fix. Just last year the paint on the hood started pealing off and then it started to peal on the roof of the car as well. There were two 8-inch circles of paint peeling. While walking to the car the other day I noticed the whole roof was peeling off in sheets about the size of basketballs. By the end of the day the wind had lifted all the paint off the roof and much of the hood.
Needless to say I wasn't going to drive the car looking like this so I brought it to the body shop to get painted. This was a cost of $1000 for the hood and roof. What's a recall for if they are not going to honor it.
I have a 1994 Buick Regal. The paint on the roof has come off. This took a week to happen. The paint peeled off in large sheets. I had a similar problem with the trunk lid about 3 years ago and I had it repainted. This seems to me to be a defect in the paint system.
My 1996 Buick Regal sedan has huge pieces of paint falling off of the primer coating. I heard through an auto mechanic friend that GM had bad primer during the time that my car was manufactured. I went to the GM site and registered my vehicle and keep receiving an internal error message when trying to view the recall information for my vehicle. I find this a bit odd since all of the other site menu options work without any problem!
My only inconvience appears to be the lack of funds to investigate or repair this rather large problem. I am currently a student at Penn State Univ, a single mother of three young daughters, and working for not much above minimum wage. I would just like to know if GM is responsible for the repair of my obviously faulty paint job?!
My only inconvience appears to be the lack of funds to investigate or repair this rather large problem. I am currently a student at Penn State Univ, a single mother of three young daughters, and working for not much above minimum wage. I would just like to know if GM is responsible for the repair of my obviously faulty paint job?!
Once the warranty expires, there's not much hope of getting any help from the manufacturer, unfortunately.
