Seats are bending backward, making it hard to sit up.
When you start the car is sometimes screeches and will not start for many tried.
The break line broke. (My personal fault)
I check the oil and transmission fluid regularly, but the car's exhaust smokes like crazy.
When reversing, it stalls and sometimes
If you have the radio on when you go, sometimes it will stall.
The car goes very fast when you're not trying to.
It sticks on a specific mph and it will not slow down or accelerate, without riding the brakes.
Power locks fail sometimes.
At this point dangerous to drive, now.
It has always been in my family. The first owners of the car were my grandparents. They kept extremely good car of the car. It was then handed down to my father and then to me. This car has gotten so much money put into it.. that didn't seem to help it at all.
One thing that I really like about the car is the steering.
If your grandparents truly took good care of the car, your father obviously didn't. The problems you are complaining about are all the result of abuse and/or lack of maintenance, not any inherent defect in the car itself. Suspect that you got this car for free anyway (if not, you should have!)
The reason you have to ride the brakes is that the 4 speed transmission in this car when driving in overdrive will keep you at 30-40 mph to save you from using the gas. you save gas with over drive and with this car in o/d you do not need to push the gas pedal down at that speed.
It also sounds to me like so many other people who bash buicks and american cars in general it was not maintained and even a new car will need to be maintained. sounds like you got it for free to me also.
If you are having to drive around riding the brakes, then you should take it out of overdrive unless you want to be fixing the brakes way too often.
Truthfully, I think you or the previous owner of the car drove it like you or they stole it, and put a great deal of wear on it, but overall, these are pretty good little cars. The motor in mine runs like it did the day it was assembled.
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