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2002 Buick Rendezvous service brakes problems

11 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the service brakes on the 2002 Buick Rendezvous2% of all complaints for this model year.

11
Service Brakes complaints
2%
share of all complaints
110,345 mi
median reported incident mileage
2 / 2
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • The vehicle was running for 45 minutes on two-lane paved country roads. I drove the first 15 minutes, with one of my sons driving the other 30 minutes while I was a front seat passenger. We pulled into a parking lot and switched drivers so another son could begin a driving lesson with me. When he…

    filed Sep 3, 2016

  • When driving the buick rendezvous 2002 home the brakes began to not respond. After arriving home and driving down our driveway, the suv had smoke coming out of the engine. The buick rendezvous was turned off but continued to expelled large amounts of smoke under the engine area. Within 5 minutes…

    filed Aug 1, 2016

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Service Brakes problems in other Rendezvous years

YearReportsShare
2007 Rendezvous37%
2006 Rendezvous11%
2005 Rendezvous54%
2004 Rendezvous116%
2003 Rendezvous135%
Rendezvous service brakes problems by year →

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.