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Sorry, but still like reading your replys from your perspective.
When in darkness the dashboard lighting is perfect. For example if I pull the car into the garage, the headlights turn on automatically, and the dashboard is well lit.
If I then pull the car into the sunlight, the headlights turn off, and the lights on the small odometer section of the dash get brighter as expected so they can be seen in the brighter ambient light.
The problem is that all the lighting on the dials ( for example the speedometer dial ) turn OFF COMPLETELY instead of getting brighter. Due to my age I can not see the dials or can barely see them. It seems very inconsistent that some of the dash would get brighter while the rest would turn off completely.
I am left wondering if this is by design or there is a problem or adjustment to be made.
This may sound minor but I really cannot see any of the dials in outdoor sunlight situations.
Thanks ahead of time for any insight you can give me
Some two weeks after I bought my Lucerne, the courtesy
lights on the passenger side sun visor and the both lights on the ceiling console went out. I brought it in for service and the fuse was replaced. The fuse burned out within two days and I brought it back again. The fuse was replaced again and so far the fuse has held.
Recently I noticed that the green lights on both the radio and speedometer began to dim. Sometimes they would be initially dim when the car was started. I would turn off the engine, open the door so the radio would shut off and restart the vehicle. Usually, that worked and the lights would come on at full brightness. Other times they would remain dim and then halfway during my morning 17-mile commute would suddenly come on at full brightness. Still other times during my commute, the lights would dim on the way. If that happened, after arriving at work, I would turn off the engine, open the door, close the door and restart the engine and the lights would usually come back on at full brightness. Usually.
The dimming issue did not resurface then for a week or so, and then began again. On September 12th the dimming of those lights began again during my morning commute. Also during that commute, the warning light for “Check Airbag” came on and stayed on, both the written warning in the message area and red red symbol. When I arrived at work, I shut the engine off and restarted it and the warning light stayed on. That evening as I began my commute home from downtown the warning light reappeared and didn’t go off until I was nearly home. It has not reappeared. On Wednesday morning, and again on Thursday morning, the numerals on the speedometer went completely black after I had driven some ten miles. Oddly, the remaining lights on that dial – odometer, etc., remained at full brightness. The numerals then lighted back up on restart. Also, I noticed the green light for direction of travel, inset into the rearview mirror, has gone black and has not reappeared.
These electrical issues are extremely irritating and especially with the numerals on the speedometer going out, somewhat dangerous. Hopefully, I'll get the car back tomorrow and it will have been fixed.
Thing is, it sounds like its not an isolated problem and there may be issues that will result in a recall...
However the key thing here is that the light on the dial around the speedometer actually turns completely off instead of getting brighter as you woudl expect.
If you could tell me if you see the same behavior it would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to figure out if its a flaw in design or a flaw in my particular vehicle. The dealerships have acted like they don't understand what I am talking about. Of course partly because I'm old
I hope the dealer can correct it for you. In my case I'm wondering if its by design or a flaw in my specific vehicle.
Lets see if anyone else has the same problem. If its a design flaw then there probably isn't much to do about it.
I believe the engineers spend considerable time thinking these things through so the flaw is at least a little bit surprising especially since cost would not seem to be an issue in this case.
is the fix paid for by gm?
thanks for your help.
canduster
the colored rubber around the doors is turning color
i have a grey interior the rubber is turning a brownish color. is anybody else having this problem.
i have not talked to the dealer yet.
thanks
canduster
I think our manual is wrong.
Thanks
After I read your and other posts about the lucerne seats, I looked at a few and the interior appeared to be similar to mine and after that I honestly quit looking at that car or any other gm product for that matter. Thank you for input.
My dealer said, "Works as designed". I consider that an unacceptable response.
I love every thing else about my Lucerne. I have the 40-20-40 seats and they have been very comfortable, especially on long trips.
PLEASE, SOMEONE, POST THE SERVICE BULLETIN NUMBER HERE!!!
Thanks.
I copied your message over to the Technical Service Bulletin
blog that our host gave us a link to.
Hopefully something will come of it.
Good luck to all of us.
THere is a fix for your problem. I am a Buick dealer in New Jersey and have several customers with the same complaint. Buick has just issued a fix for the problem which requires changing the instrument cluster. any questions' email ngalebpaol.com
On the driver side I can see the festoon bulb in its holder.
On the passenger side I can see a recess in the side panel, with a little baffle, and a rectangular hole into which a bulb holder would snap.
But the hole is empty - no bulb holder.
The dark passenger footwell is an odd gap in the otherwise nice interior lighting. Was the bulb holder deleted for 2008? Was it possibly omitted by mistake on this car? Can I order a bulb holder and will there be connectors in the wiring harness of the car?