2000 Buick Regal problems
NHTSA has received 245 complaints about the 2000 Buick Regal, and 25% of them involve engine. Next are electrical system (18%) and steering (13%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 245 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Engine 25% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 19 and 35
- Injuries and deaths
- 11 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 98,000 miles 146 complaints with mileage
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%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 7 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 20 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 16 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 15 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 18 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 19 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 16 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 14 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 10 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 7 |
| 200k+ miles | 4 |
What the data shows
Of the 146 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 98,000 miles. For engine specifically, the median reported mileage is about 110,000 miles (40 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 19 complaints mention a crash; 35 complaints mention a fire; 11 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 84% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2000 ranks 8th most-complained-about out of 24 model years of the Buick Regal with enough data (91 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 8 safety recall campaigns.
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.
Dt: the consumer was involved in a wreck, the impact was the front end of the car. The air bags did not deploy on the driver's side. Air bag light did not come on. The speed was 30-35 MPH. Consumer sustained injuries. This was a 2000 buick regal. The vehicle was maintained regularly. The consumer sustained injuries to his shoulder, neck, lower back and both knees.
I purchased a 2000 buick regal gse 8/18/00 which has a supercharged engine. The car has been a great car until 12/16/2005. After I had parked the car and gone into the doctor's office, my car caught fire and was destroyed. The car was totaled and the insurance adjuster told me it was the 3rd burned buick regal supercharged engine that he'd seen this year alone.
After driving between events, the vehicle was parked on a slight downhill angle, ignition turned off and left. Within approximately ten minutes of the ignition being turned off, a fire started within the engine compartment of the 2000 buick regal gs supercharged. The fire department was called and the put out the fire, but the fire destroyed the engine compartment.
Trunk leaks,floor board passenger side fills with water. Gives false tire pressure reading warning,dual climate control was inoperable
My 2000 buick regal does great in winter, now in summer, it will just die going down the road. Sometimes you can go to the store go in an come out 30 minutes later or an hour and it wont start, kinda sounds like its out of gas but its not. It turns over but wont start and then if you wait long enough it will start right up????? I have had the fuel pump checked it is fine. It does have a check engine light on and the code reads secondary air malfunction...??? Nay suggestions? Please email me at [xxx]