I've got a 04 Pont Grand Am and I'm on the 3rd time fixing a brake problem. I bought the car with 18,000 miles on it, it now has 46,000 and it's been parked for 4 months. The brakEs are so bad, Sears replaced everything last year and within 3000 miles it all had to be redone! Breaks, cal, hoses, rotors were totally gone, the 1st and 2nd time (warped, cracked, turned a cooper color!). The brakes got so hot that the seal where you put brake fluid into was warped! It had to be replaced so the cap would go back on! After the 2nd repair I took it to Bob Tricket, Bridgeport WV and they replaced the Hydrolic Pump. The problem still exist and the dealers keep telling me nothing is wrong that I just put "cheap brakes on" but they were original when it 1st happened! Now they want $1300 for the "good Pont breaks" I don't know what to do. If I put the Pontiac Brakes on and spend a ton of money, it's going to happen again! I know that I wasn't riped by Sears they stood by THEIR WARRANTIES and replaced the breaks when they know it's got to be the car. I went to another site and found numerous complaints about the brake system and it's the same thing going on with there's as mine! I want to know what Pontiac is going to do about this! I bought the extended warranty with the damn car and all this brake work is not covered!

Complaint #2~ I took my Pontiac to a Pont dealer for a STRONG GAS SMELL around Jan 07. It was in the shop for 30-45 minutes, the worker comes to me and says that they couldn't smell the gas and there was no signs of a gas leak. Now for 1 month (Dec 06) I could smell this horrible gas when I would start my car in the AM, my 8 year old would cry when I took her to school with the windows down! It was winter!!!! But the fumes were so bad I had to keep the windows down! The dealer tells me that nothing was wrong but "IF I could smell it again to bring it by and they would have someone stick their head in the window to see what it smelled like"!!! I took it right down the road (SAME WEEK!) AND THEY FOUND A HUGE LEAK AROUND THE ENGINE! I HAD TO HAVE THE FUEL PRESSURE REGULATOR REPLACED!!!

NOW WHY COULDN'T A PONTIAC DEALER FIND THE PROBLEM AND WHY CAN'T THEY FIGURE OUT WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY BRAKES!!! I'VE GOT A FILE FULL OF BRAKE REPAIRS AND CHECK UPS FOR STRANGE RATTLING SOUNDS IN THE FRONT OF THE CAR. I want it fixed and done right!!

Rita Lockwood