Brake Abs Warning Light problems of the 2006 Buick Lacrosse

The contact owns a 2006 Buick Lacrosse. The contact stated that while driving at approximately 35 mph, the brakes were depressed and failed to respond as the traction control and the abs warning lights illuminated. In addition, the vehicle stalled and was able to be restarted. The vehicle was taken to a private mechanic where it was diagnosed that the abs and traction control failed. The vehicle was repaired and the failure persisted. The contact received notification of NHTSA campaign number:14v355000 (electrical system) however, the part to do the repair was unavailable. The contact stated that the manufacturer exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 210,000.

For years, the car has had “electrical gremlins”. There might be times we drive it and nothing happens out of the ordinary except the ses light is on because of the top listed problem, but then there are times (more times than not) that just the car moving, sometimes when hitting a bump, sometimes worse when raining/wet roads that the dinger will go off and the dash will reset and will say “service brake system” along with a few of the dash lights lighting up for a few seconds with the message. Sometimes when it happens then it will also say “traction control off” which might say it for just a few seconds and there have been times it said it until I shut the car off and restarted it. There have also been times that the red abs light has stayed illuminated on the dash after this happens. Sometimes this might happen “service brake system” only like once on an outing, but then there's times that it can occur 5 times in 20 seconds . It has no set schedule. The problem with it also, is that if you have the brakes applied when it does this, then the brake pedal starts pulsing and goes further to the floor and the braking capability of the car is lessened. My wife and I have had a few close accidents because of this! and like usual, the dealership has told us everytime we've called them that if we bring it in, they can diagnose it on our dime because of no warranty even though it was doing it while under the warranty period, we just didn't get them called in time because I thought the warranty was already over but it wasn't yet.