1984 Buick Park Avenue Electra review from North America

Two problems:

-- As with a previous '82 Buick, the steering

box becomes maladjusted and makes the car much

harder to turn left than turn right (even with a

perfect front-end alignment). It's expensive to

replace the steering gear... all because GM

cheapened the box by removing the fluid deflector

from in front of the spool valve, which upsets the

natural centering position fluid pressures.

-- Stupid engine controls will not allow the car to

properly and safely decelerate when coasting in

gear, all because they're federal computer-mobiles!

It's, frankly, dangerous.

Great car; very reliable; only bad thing is the

cheap, crummy seats (especially when compared to big

Ford products of the 80s).