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2006 Buick Lucerne

This year drew an ordinary 330 complaints for a Buick Lucerne — the model's median is 128. What they were about is the unusual part: 14.5% of them mention tires, against 4.6% across the model's other years.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

What the complaints were about

• tires — 14.5% of this year's complaints, against 4.6% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: tires, tire, chrome, wheels.
• speedometer — 10.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the model's other years (4.5×). Owners wrote it as: speedometer, impossible, visible, impossible read.

Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.

What owners wrote

THE CONTACT OWNS 2006 BUICK LUCERNE. THE CONTACT STATED ALL FOURS WHEEL CHROME RIMS WERE FLAKING CAUSING THE TIRES TO DEFLATE. THE TIRE PRESSURE WARNING LIGHT CONTINUED TO ILLUMINATE INDICATING THERE WAS A FAILURE WITH THE TIRES. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO T…

ALL FOUR CHROME RIMS WERE FLAKING AND LEAKING. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE TIRE PRESSURE WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATED AND THE TIRES BECAME DEFLATED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER WHERE IT WAS ADVISED THAT THE RIMS NEEDED TO BE SCRAPED. THE [VIN] WAS NOT NOT…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 14V355000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 08V441000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 10V240000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
• 06V105000 STEERING

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Buick Lucerne was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.

This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.

Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.

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