Buick Century 2000–2017 — technical service bulletin

Bulletin PIC3278F · NHTSA communication 10094888 · issued Jan 14, 2015

Technical service bulletin

communication type

Electrical System

component

2000–2017

model years

vehicle entries

Official summary

This preliminary information communication provides information to the technician the steps needed to diagnose and repair the vehicles that may have unwanted or phantom phone calls. Technician will need to determine what type of call the customer is having that is unwanted. The vehicle may receive an incoming call just like any other phone. Typically the customer will hear the phone ringing in the vehicle. This scenario also includes incoming bluetooth calls. One type of unwanted call can be made if the key pad is faulty the onstar system will try to make a blue button call for shorted voltage

Vehicles covered

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.