NHTSA Complaint #10578319 — 2006 BUICK RENDEZVOUS

ENGINE CUT OFF AND REDUCED ENGINE POWER LIGHT CAME ON WHILE DRIVING DOWN ROAD. POWER STEERING, BRAKES AND EVERYTHING ELSE COMPLETELY QUIT UNEXPECTEDLY. COULD RESTART AFTER LETTING SIT FOR 10 MINUTES, BUT CONTINUED TO DO THIS ALL THE WAY HOME. TOOK SEVERAL MORE TRIPS OUT AROUND TOWN AND PROBLEM JUST GOT WORSE. WAS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION, BEING AS IT WOULD SIMPLY CUT OFF IN MIDDLE OF ROAD WHILE GOING 55-60 MPH AND ALMOST UNABLE TO KEEP UNDER CONTROL AND KEEP FROM BEING HIT BY OTHER DRIVERS. PARKED IT AT HOME AND RESEARCHED PROBLEM ONLINE. EVERYTHING I FOUND STATED OTHERS WITH SAME ISSUE WOULD TAKE THEIRS IN FOR TESTING AND REPAIR AND COULD GET NO SATISFACTION, MULTIPLE AND VARIOUS PARTS WOULD BE REPLACED AND PROBLEM CONTINUED. HAVE REPLACED ALTERNATOR, SPARK PLUGS AND WIRES, THROTTLE BODY, IGNITION SWITCH,CLEANED WIRING HARNESS CONNECTION UNDER DRIVERS SEAT AND CHECKED FOR CORROSION, CLEANED MASS AIR FLOW SENSOR, AND ORDERED AN ENGINE CONTROL MODULE, BUT JUST FOUND OUT THAT IT NEEDS TO BE PROGRAMMED TO THE VEHICLE TO WORK (CURRENTLY WORKING ON FINDING SOMEONE TO DO THAT, NOW). CANNOT AFFORD TO TAKE TO DEALERSHIP, AND AFTER READING ALL THE OTHER DISSATISFIED INDIVIDUALS INFO., I DO NOT FEEL THAT IT WOULD DO ANY GOOD SINCE NO PART REPLACEMENT SEEMS TO WORK. SEEMS LIKE THIS IS BECOMING A COMMON PROBLEM FOR BUICK RENDEZVOUS VEHICLES, FROM WHAT I CAN SEE FROM THE OTHER RECENT COMPLAINTS. IT IS ALSO A VERY DANGEROUS PROBLEM. ENGINES SHOULD NOT STALL OUT WHILE GOING DOWN THE ROAD, THANKFULLY I AM JUST AN EXPERIENCED ENOUGH DRIVER THAT NO INJURIES OCCURRED. WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE SAME THING IF MY SON OR DAUGHTER HAD BEEN DRIVING. IT WILL DO NO GOOD TO FILE THIS COMPLAINT AND NO INVESTIGATION OR RECALL WILL OCCUR, I'M SURE, BUT AT LEAST I CAN JOIN THE OTHER LISTINGS SHOWING THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM. LOVE THE VEHICLE, HATE THAT FOR THE PRICE I PAID, I ONLY GOT 100,00 MILES. *TR