Vehicle Speed Control Related Problems of the 2020 Buick Encore

Table 1 shows two common vehicle speed control related problems of the 2020 Buick Encore.

Table 1. Vehicle Speed Control related problems of Buick Encore

Problem Category Number of Problems
Vehicle Speed Control problems
1
Cruise Control problems
1

Vehicle Speed Control problem #1

Unknown issues w/ sensors and wiring lead to turbocharger failure. This led to spontaneous acceleration issues on the highway. Less than a year after the warranty covered the replacement of the turbocharger (less than 60k miles on the car) the turbocharger again failed (64k miles on car).

Cruise Control problem #2

I was driving on the interstate and the vehicle was in cruise control. It acted as it was accelerating and then the cruise control quit and I lost speed. I regained speed and then it lurched again; the cruise control again went off. When I applied the brake to pull to the side of the road, the engine started to throttle up and accelerate, I had to brake harder to come to a full stop.


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