2002 buick air suspension growling

[ponchonutty]

Originally Posted by June Riddle

Well, heck! No, that didn't work. It made perfect sense, but I
just tried it, and remember, this was an added remote, not
a regular one. It is rubber with 4 buttons, and they told me
only two were active -- lock and unlock. I moved the twilight
bar up about half way, but to no avail. I've never seen a
remote like this one, must be a real cheapie. I'll find out more
about it later.

Thanks anyway.

June
P.S. I didn't get an owner's manual, but some off-brand remote
probably wouldn't apply in this car anyway. I'm not sure what
else is missing -- no anti-theft, no locking gas door, something
else I can't remember right now.

WHat brand did they install for keyless? Yes, most of these aftermarket do not have domelight controlls hooked up. They have to do that themselves. It is real easy to do though. Tell them you'd give them $20 for it. It is just one wire to hook up.

[June Riddle]

I don't know what brand, but there is a little box it came in, in the car. It's late, but tomorrow I'll see if it has any paperwork. One little wire? You'd think they would have done it. The dome lights coming on is a safety factor for me.

Later

June

[Lesabrelover]

Originally Posted by June Riddle

I don't know what brand, but there is a little box it came in, in the car. It's late, but tomorrow I'll see if it has any paperwork. One little wire? You'd think they would have done it. The dome lights coming on is a safety factor for me.

Later

June

June,

I'm almost certain that remote keyless entry is a standard feature on your car. I don't think that the dealer had to "add" it. If it is not working properly, you probably don't have the correct remote. You might check out E-Bay though, I have seen OEM remotes there for about $15 each. Only catch is that you have to carry your car to a dealer for them to program it. The dealer has to use a scantool to program them and they will charge you $40-60 for that. Might check out E-Bay for an owners manual for your car too. That will be a tremendous help in programming all of the convenience features that this car has.

[June Riddle]

I can only go on what the Buick dealer told me and the rental car co. salesmen told me, and that was that it did not come wired for remote, nor did it come wired for anti-theft. I suppose the only I will ever know for sure is to take it to some electrical guy and see what he knows.

Anyway, I got the box it came in, and it is an Ultra Start (www.ultrastarters.com). They have a product line for businesses and the only one that could be the one says "Keyless 5." My box says K-4. Nothing else even resembles the "K-4." It is the remote with the least features, but would certainly turn on the dome lights, and panic feature -- if they had wired those up. As I said, all I can do is lock and unlock.

Perhaps I can go somewhere and get it done for not much money.

Thanks for the info!

June

[June Riddle]

I was looking at the dealer work order copies the car rental salesman furnished me. My complaint about the "growling" in the rear about 30 or so seconds after starting the car got lost in communication apparently. The copy said "started engine and ran for 2 seconds, heard no growling or other noise." 2 seconds!!! Now to add some confusion to that, the salesman told me that the growling was normal upon startup, but that it would no longer do it at red lights (which was the rest of my complaint). If they did not fix or adjust anything, how come they got it to stop coming on at red lights? There's nothing in the paperwork about that, but something was done to make it stop. It didn't do it at every red light, maybe half of them.

I now understand it resetting itself upon startup is normal, but why did it stop resetting at red lights? Something is wrong with this picture. I suppose I should just let this go, but what I have in the back of my mind is that something is wrong, and I have only approx. 700 miles left on the factory warranty. I just don't want it going out right after that.

June

[tman]

Obviously, your dealer is not being agreeble, take it to another dealer, and have the rear shocks replaced, because their weak, and the car wants to pump them back up all he time.

[June Riddle]

Thanks tman, but if in fact it has stopped airing up all the time, and only does it after starting it up, and the dealer and other owners say that is normal, I don't see how I can make them put on new shocks. I'm not totally sure it has stopped doing it at odd times, but will keep an ear tuned for it for the next week or so. If it airs up one time other than startup, then I will fight with them.

Let's say it has stopped airing up at odd times, I am still wondering what they did to stop that? No answer from the dealer or salesman on that.

June

[tman]

pull off one of your rear wheels, look at the shock to see id anything is leaking at the seam on the shock. You might not need to remove the wheel if you can see around the tire ok.

[June Riddle]

I had to chuckle here, sorry! I'm sure I would have pulled off the wheel around 50 years ago. I rebuilt a few carburetors, installed simple things like voltage regulators and fixed many a flat in my day. But seriously, I'm going to have it checked out. What would be leaking, fluid?

June

[tman]

when the shocks go bad, as I suspect, they leak around that seam where the upper part meets the lower part.

[June Riddle]

Okay. Thanks! I am going to see if my daughter will
look (without taking the wheel off of course). But
either way, I still plan on having the other dealer
check it, or possibly first, just a good mechanic.

June

When I do find out, I will post it, just for the sake
of it.