Six problems related to automatic transmission have been reported for the 2000 Buick Lesabre. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2000 Buick Lesabre based on all problems reported for the 2000 Lesabre.
Failure of transmission mount.
While the vehicle was in park and running, the vehicle shifted to drive without warning and pinned the consumer between the house and the vehicle. The consumer suffered minor back injuries.
The vehicle will slow down and stop. The power steering tightens up and it just stopped. . The panel will light up and the vehicle will die . This vehicle has been to the dealers three times. The first time dealer said nothing was wrong. Contacted gm then, and gm told dealer what to do. They did diagnostic testing and no codes were found. This started happening on August 15, 2003.
There is resistance and a momentary delay when shifting. The vehicle has been taken to dealer several times. The vehicle has been at the dealer since January and the dealer can not duplicate the problem. Consumer states that a mount was replaced, however there is still a bang when shifting from park to drive, drive to reverse and park to reverse.
While driving on the highway vehicle completely shut off. Consumer was able to start up but only for the vehicle to turn off again. This occurred on 3 different occasions on the same day. There were no prior warnings to vehicle shutdown. Dealership could not duplicate any problems or remedies to defect.
The consumer states that the vehicle has been in the shop twice for transmission problems, the dealer has been unable to properly diagnose the problem.