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2012 Buick LACROSSE Power Train Problems, Complaints and Defects

Issue ID	929706
Internal NHTSA #	10465699
Manufacurer	GENERAL MOTORS LLC
Brand	BUICK
Model	LACROSSE
Model Year	2012
File date	17/06/11
Component	POWER TRAIN
Product type code	VEHICLE
Description of the problem	I parked the vehicle in parking bay at a gas station and went inside. I was in there approximately 3 minutes and a gentleman game into the building and asked did anyone in there own a buick lacrosse. I said it was mine, he told me it had rolled out of the parking bay towards his mercedes, he had stopped my vehicle. I subsequently found i had turned the engine off while the vehicle was in drive so there was no braking effect. Where i had parked the pavement was a very gentle slope so i did not notice any movement of the vehicle when i alighted from it. This model has remote wireless key so you do not insert any key to either start or stop the engine. To start you have to have the key within the vehicle be in either park or neutral and depress the foot brake and then press the start button. What i have found is when turning off the engine the vehicle can be in any of the following, drive, reverse, neutral or park. So if you happen to be in anything but park and then turn off the motor then the vehicle is free to roll away with the possibility of it hitting something or worse still hitting a person. With all automatic vehicles i have previously owned you needed to put the vehicle in park before you could remove your key and after exiting the vehicle you knew it was effectively braked and was not going to roll away. I believe this matter needs addressing before it does result in a possible fatality. To alleviate the possibility of the vehicle moving either the engine/transmission management system needs to be altered so that you must put the vehicle in park before turning off the engine or at the very least there should be either an audible alarm or visual alarm to alert the driver that the driver has not left the vehicle in a safe condition. After contacting the dealer it was determined this anomaly applied to all of these vehicles.
Vehicle Mileage at Failure	100
Number of Occurences	1
Source of the issue	NHTSA WEB SITE
City and State	KINGWOOD, TX
VIN pattern	1G4GJ5E38CFXXXXXX
Was vehicle invloved in a crash?	N
Was vehicle involved in a fire?	N
Was incedent reported to police?	N
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Was part original equipment?
No. of injured persons	0
No. of fatalities	0
Date of purchase	04/10/24
Was original owner?	N
Anti-lock brakes	N
Cruise control	N
Number of cylinders	6
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Vehicle speed	0
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A recall is when a product is removed from the market or a correction is made to the product because it is either defective or potentially harmful.
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Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
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Non-conformance of a car component with the specified requirements, or non-fulfillment of user expectations, including the safety aspects.

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2012 Buick LACROSSE Power Train Problems, Complaints and Defects, Recalls and Failures

2012 Buick LACROSSE Power Train Problems, Complaints and Defects

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