2006 Pontiac Grand Prix problems
NHTSA has received 365 complaints about the 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix, and 18% of them involve electrical system. Next are drivetrain & axles (13%) and lighting (13%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 365 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Electrical system 18% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 33 and 36
- Injuries and deaths
- 41 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 99,000 miles 280 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 | 17 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 34 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 23 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 32 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 38 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 31 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 37 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 23 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 14 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 12 |
| 200k+ miles | 19 |
What the data shows
Of the 280 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 99,000 miles. For electrical system specifically, the median reported mileage is about 122,000 miles (48 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 33 complaints mention a crash; 36 complaints mention a fire; 41 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 88% 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 2006 ranks 10th most-complained-about out of 19 model years of the Pontiac Grand Prix with enough data (120 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
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.
2006 pontiac grand prix base model 39000 miles heater motor caught on fire there are no modifications to vehicle the spare jack also collapsed on me landing on my leg GM has made no effort to correct or remedy the situation because of bankruptcy please point me in the right direction.
got cutoff on a busy highway going 70mph and they slammed their brakes. i had 6 car lengths between us and immediately started braking but we were just skidding. I had the choice of hitting the vehicle or swerving left towards the median. I chose the latter. The steering locked up, the abs did NOT kick in and the airbags did NOT deploy. we hit a median at 70mph and no airbags?! I was point of impact. It hit the front drivers side, destroying the light and entire front.
I was driving west bound on I-10 towards tucson arizona. I was in the right lane and there was a pickup truck in the left lane. The pickup truck cut me off and moved into my lane without checking his blind spot. I quickly swerved to the right into the lane for the upcoming exit to avoid being hit, and when I tried to correct to left in order to not hit exit sign the brakes felt as if they did not work right and I couldn't get control of the vehicle. The car went into a roll and landed on the passenger side.
I am writing a complaint regarding my car. I purchased the vehicle in 2006. I had to replace the stabilizer pin, wheel bearings, front brakes and it seems like something is wrong in the steering wheel. Parts inside of the car are falling off. I've had to buy new tires due to all these front end problems with the car and not knowing until it has caused a problem somewhere else. Now the tires that I purchased about a 1 1/2 year ago is now very worn from these front end problems with the car.