Intermittently I am having a problem braking my 2011 Buick Lacrosse. The car feels as if it is going 60 miles an hour and I have to put extreme pressure on the brake to stop the car . The car RPMs

Asked by jbrihgt Nov 18, 2011 at 12:13 PM about the 2011 Buick LaCrosse CX FWD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

If I put the car in park and then back to drive the feeling of the car wanting to lurch forward and the load noise of the RPMs disappears.

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try checking it out in a empty street... how many RPMs does it have when this surge is going? at idle.. rpms should be 650-700 . did u put on new tires? what tires are on the car now? tire pressure F/R? get all this info first to find possible causes. :)

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