1994 Buick Park Avenue problems
Owners have filed 63 complaints with NHTSA about the 1994 Buick Park Avenue. Brakes is the most reported problem area, at 17% of complaints. After that come body & structure (17%) and electrical system (14%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 63 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 18% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 6 and 3
- Injuries and deaths
- 7 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
What the data shows
Safety-related details: 6 complaints mention a crash; 3 complaints mention a fire; 7 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1994 ranks 10th most-complained-about out of 13 model years of the Buick Park Avenue with enough data (32 complaints in that window).
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Dual airbags did not deploy during frontal crash, applied brakes, pedal went to floor, caused vehicle to crash into vehicle in front, vehicle at auto repair, available for inspection.
Vehicle parked on incline and turned off, transmission jumped out of gear, vehicle rolled backwards, injuring driver who was between door and vehicle.
The vehicle caught fire, after starting the vehicle while parked on the consumer driveway. The fire got started underneath the engine on the left front side of the vehicle. Local fire department arrived to extinguish the fire. The cause of the fire is still undetermined. The dealer and the manufacturer were both notified.
At 120k car began stalling out (completely) in city traffic at stops. Car required re- starting. Took car to a state emission control & repair shop stating car dies at stops and is hard to start. The shop retained the car for 3 weeks, gave me a bill for over $300 and I had to return the car 2 days later as car was not fixed. After a week I got car and bill for $1124 still not fixed and technician saying car needed part that was no longer available.