2001 Buick LeSabre Reviews - Page 9 of 11

I have only had this Buick for 14 months, and have three of the four window regulators break. From reading all of the responses, this seems to be a very common problem. Doesn't GM understand that they are going to lose by far more money in the long run by not doing a recall?

It has made me where I want to sell this car and go buy foreign made cars only! What ever happened with made in AMERICA these days?

Nice car most the time, runs a little sluggish. But the WINDOW PROBLEMS take away from the nice things.

Transmission failure at 60000.

Heated seat stopped working at 50000.

Have an ongoing electrical problem which keeps blowing out interior lights.

3 of the window regulators have been replaced.

For the money this car cost to purchase, it is a colossal piece of junk.

This car has had two window regulators go out. There is a cable that runs the movement of the track, which breaks and lets the window drop down. This leaves the owner forced to deal with the problem. This is not an isolated problem, there are many other owners with multiple window regulator out on their cars. Buick will not deal with the problem. It is approximately $500 dollars per window to fix. There are also foam blocks inside the door that squeak.

This Buick model is set up for performance and will shift above 5000 rpm when accelerating fast. The ride is not as smooth as the earlier model years. The trunk tie down points tend to break and are expensive to replace.

Tie rods went bad @24000 miles. Original tires went bad @ about 28000miles, Buick replaced the tires and at about 52000 miles the left rear tire flew apart will we were traveling at about 55MPH! causing a lot of damage. 3 out of the 4 windows broke and even though we had purchased an extended warranty Buick would only repair one of them. The car has about 96000 miles on it, I have kept up with oil changes I just added 2 quarts of oil after 1800 miles. Also I constantly add coolant and power steering fluid.

General Motors Junk! I'm sorry I ever purchased this car. I would say its the worst car we've ever owned. Looking forward to getting rid of it soon. I would never buy another GM car.

Passenger rear window regulator went out on my 2001 LeSabre Custom at 89,000 miles. Never had this problem with any of my previous vehicles (7). I was surprised when the dealer told me that it would cost $400 to repair. Of course my extended warranty expired 2 months ago. The dealer said that they are replacing 3-4 regulators per week. They had another customer in just before me with the same problem on a 2002 LeSabre. If my dealer is replacing that many, then there must be thousands being replaced weekly. This should raise some red flags at Buick as a design flaw. Or maybe it is just at real good income source.

I just wish I could do the repair work myself. I could have saved the $110 labor charge. Also my dealer made over $100 profit on the part based on the cost on gmpartsdirect.com, GM’s own parts website.

Overall the car is a good car, but when something goes wrong, it is expensive to repair. This will cause me to look twice before purchasing another.