2000 Buick LeSabre LS from North America - Comments

Electric Windows break.

I have replaced 5 electric window units. Each unit cost approx. $400. I had the first four replaced at dealers, none under warranty. After I had the 4th one repaired, Buick did give me a certificate for $900 off the purchase of a new General Motors vehicle. All I have to do is spend thousands of dollars on a new vehicle to redeem. After the 5th one went out I asked Buick (Their factory customer service reps and supervisors) to at least ask their local dealer to do some complimentary diagnostics to find out why I had replaced 5 of the units. They refused. I had the 5th one replaced by a local auto electric shop and they showed me what was breaking! It wasn't the motor at all. It was a small plastic part on the regulator that could only be purchased assembled in the assembly. A small plastic part that could have been made from metal and never broken. Another fifty cents in manufacture cost would have saved me $2,000!!

I am on-line now, trying to find the regulator, I had the same thing happen. They will not sell the regulator without the motor. Very poor quality from what is supposed to be a quality automobile.

One tip...

When you roll the window all the way up or down. don't keep the button on. You are putting the window in a great bind if you keep the button down.

When you roll the window up. roll it up till it touches the top of the door and then let off the button real quick. THen roll the window back down like 1/10 of and inch to let the stress off. That is if your swithch does not have auto/express down like Ford products do for the driver's window only.

When the widows get rolled up. they are up real tight. The stress can't be let out on it's own as the window motor locks in place to prevent someone from pushing your window down and taking your stuff.

Let the stress off and the cheap plastic parts will last for about 5-years.

Remember to roll the window up 1/10 of an inch also if you roll it down all the way also.

I had a problem with my windows also. Fortunately I still had warranty left on the vehicle. I have enjoyed the car's overall performance. But when repeat occurrences

are happening to the same model of vehicle, it needs to be checked out and corrected by the manufacture.

Have a Recall on that item - fix it and be done with it.

04-19-2004

2000 Buick LeSabre, Custom

Nice car, however there is a problem with the power window

units. I have had trouble with the cables breaking on the right front and the left rear and a motor ground failed because of rust on the left front. The total cost will be about $900 when I have the left rear fixed. This is poor enough quality that Buick should make an adjustment for this problem through their dealers.

2000 Buick LeSabre, Custom bought it with 54 miles on it. I have almost 38000 miles and I have already had my power windows to go out 5 times more than enough for a down payment on a new car. It is sad because the back windows are hardly ever used and they just fall down on there own. As of now I have black electrical tape wrapped around a piece of cardboard stuck in each corner of my driver side rear window to keep it up until I get it fixed. I have been looking for just the window regulator itself, but I am having a hard time just finding that part without the motor. Find a fixed because this regulator is a default of its own causing many car owners money.

I own a Sabre 2000, that my in-laws gave us. The other day I was driving down the highway and the canvas roof flew off.

I was wondering if anyone had this happen to them? Does anyone know who I can turn to for help. No one I know has ever heard of such thing.

The canvas top was not a factory option thus it was installed on the car after market. Personally, I think that they look better without them as they were intended to be. Cars these days don't have the roof lines that the landau roofs of the past looked so good on. If it were me, I would take it to a good body shop and have it repaired without re-installing the canvas top.