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2006 Buick Lucerne power train problems

14 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the power train on the 2006 Buick Lucerne4% of all complaints for this model year.

14
Power Train complaints
4%
share of all complaints
56,000 mi
median reported incident mileage
0 / 0
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • Periodically at cruising speed of 50 to 60 miles an hour, speedometer will fluctuate wildly between 25 and 40 mph. When it does this transmission does not know what gear to be in, and in the event that the speedometer needle goes all the way to zero, it will not engage when you press the gas pedal…

    filed Jan 12, 2020

  • I put my car in park, 5 minutes later I go to take it out of park and it does not shift. It has happened 3 times since I got the car in 2013. The gear shift is giving me a big problem and of course only the first incident was covered under my warranty. *tr

    filed Mar 10, 2015

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Power Train problems in other Lucerne years

YearReportsShare
2011 Lucerne36%
2010 Lucerne24%
2009 Lucerne22%
2008 Lucerne52%
2007 Lucerne64%
Lucerne power train problems by year →

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.