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Buick Park Avenue 2001technical service bulletin

Bulletin 031000 · NHTSA communication 617681 · issued Oct 3, 2000

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Suspension
component
2001
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

Some vehicles may exhibit a groan-type sound when making a right turn. Additionaly, when this noise is present you can almost feel a kind of a digital movement in the steering wheel or in the tops of the two struts if you touch them with your fingers as the noise is being made. *tt

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.