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How to Replace Steering Gear 2004 Buick Rendezvous UPDATED

How to Replace Steering Gear 2004 Buick Rendezvous

Motor vehicle

Buick Rendezvous

Overview
Manufacturer	General Motors
Production	2001–July v, 2007
Model years	2002–2007
Assembly	Ramos Arizpe, Mexico
Designer	Elizabeth Wetzel (Interior) (1999)^[i]
Body and chassis
Grade	Mid-size crossover SUV
Torso style	4-door CUV
Layout	Front-engine, front-wheel drive / all-wheel drive
Platform	U-body/GMT250
Related	Pontiac Aztek
Powertrain
Engine	3.four L LA1 V6 iii.5 L LX9 V6 3.6 L LY7 V6
Transmission	4–speed automatic
Dimensions
Wheelbase	112 in (2,845 mm)
Length	186.5 in (4,737 mm)
Width	73.6 in (ane,869 mm)
Pinnacle	68.nine in (1,750 mm)
Curb weight	4,024–four,272 lb (ane,825–1,938 kg)
Chronology
Successor	Buick Enclave Buick Envision

The Buick Rendezvous is a mid-size crossover SUV that was sold by Buick for the 2002–2007 model years. Introduced in the jump of 2001, the Buick Rendezvous and its corporate cousin, the Pontiac Aztek, were GM's kickoff entries into the crossover SUV segment. The Rendezvous featured a 4-speed automated transmission with a V6 engine and optional all-bicycle-drive (Versatrak). The SUV used the same platform as GM'south short-wheelbase minivans, the Chevrolet Venture and Pontiac Montana. The Rendezvous provided a passenger- and load-carrying chapters not seen in the Buick lineup since the discontinuation of the Buick Roadmaster Manor station railroad vehicle in 1996.

Technology and notable features [edit]

It was Buick's first truck in its lineup since 1923, and the Rendezvous was billed every bit a combination of the best attributes of a minivan (large cargo capacity, seating for upwardly to seven), a luxury automobile (ride, treatment, smoothness) and a sport utility vehicle (truck styling and available all cycle drive).

The Rendezvous was produced at General Motors' Ramos Arizpe, Mexico assembly plant, where it shared an assembly line with the Pontiac Aztek. Like the Pontiac Aztek, the Buick Rendezvous is based on a shortened version of GM's 2d generation U platform minivans. In lieu of iv-wheel drive, the Rendezvous offered Versatrak, a full-time, fully automatic all-bike bulldoze organization which provided sure-footed traction in choppy atmospheric condition and could handle moderate off-route surfaces.

Buick benchmarked their Park Avenue sedan as the prototypical target for ride and handling for the Rendezvous. In order to provide a luxurious and responsive car-similar ride, all Rendezvous came equipped with a fully independent rear intermission organization regardless of optional content or trim level.

The Rendezvous' instrument cluster detailing featured teal illuminated needles and numbers gear up in a silverish face accented by chrome trim rings that was meant to evoke the luxurious wait and experience of an expensive picket or designer bracelet. On the uplevel CXL model, a commuter information middle on the instrument panel provided the outside temperature, compass functions, a trip computer that included readings of fuel economy, range and fuel used. An optional 2nd generation heads-upwardly display was also available. This was besides bachelor in the CX model. An optional tire inflation monitoring system provided readings of tire force per unit area and warned if out of the specified range.

The Rendezvous boasted the power to behave seven passengers when equipped with a third-row bench, a class-leading feature that Buick brought to marketplace before its competitors, and was able to carry within its interior a standard iv 10 viii' sheet of plywood.

In support of the Rendezvous' intended role as a versatile accoutrement for busy people with families, it provided a middle console with storage space and power points for a laptop calculator as well as a divide spots to concord a purse, a prison cell phone, pager or other small items that the owner would desire to proceed organized and readily accessible equally well as an optional rear cargo organizer arrangement and rear seat stereo system controls with headsets.

Safety [edit]

The Insurance Found for Highway Safety (IIHS) gives Rendezvous an overall Acceptable rating in its frontal offset crash test for fair construction performance and fair dummy command. However, the IIHS did not perform a side-affect test on the Rendezvous.

Sales success [edit]

The Rendezvous was a desperately needed success for Buick, given the decline of its aging customer base, and singlehandedly brought a large number of younger, wealthier "conquest" buyers into Buick showrooms who otherwise would not have considered purchasing a Buick. A major contributor to the Rendezvous's success was an aggressive value-pricing strategy that made the Rendezvous Us$half-dozen,500 less than a comparably equipped Acura MDX and Usa$8,000 less than the Lexus RX. The Rendezvous handily exceeded GM'due south predictions of 30,000 to 40,000 units a year by a large margin, which helped offset the poor sales of the Pontiac Aztek with which it shared its Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, associates line.^{[ citation needed ]}

The final Rendezvous rolled off the associates line on July 5, 2007.

Commercials featuring Tiger Woods aired during the Buick Classic golf tournament. "Tornado" featured a tornado picking upwardly Woods, three waitresses and their minivan, two storm chasers in a competing SUV, and 1 man in a luxury car. All the participants ended up within a Rendezvous, with Woods driving and proverb, "I guess nosotros're not in Kansas anymore." "Igor" had iii vehicles driving from a cemetery at night into a castle, followed by a lightning strike, and Woods exiting the castle in a Rendezvous equally "Frankenstein" plays. Wood says, "What? You were expecting Igor?".^[2]

Year to year changes [edit]

2002–2003 Buick Rendezvous CXL

2004–2005 Buick Rendezvous

2003 [edit]

Optional Rear Seat DVD system is at present offered
Optional XM Satellite Radio is now offered

2004 [edit]

Forepart turn point/parking lights inverse to articulate from the previously used amber.
The Ultra was added as a top-line model, with all comfort options standard, 17 inch aluminium wheels, leather and ultrasuede seating besides as a theft deterrent system.
OnStar is now available on the Rendezvous equally an optional feature.

2005 [edit]

The Ultra was available with front-wheel drive.
The 3.half-dozen L V6 was now an option for the front-wheel bulldoze CXL.
Received chrome Buick tri-shield steering cycle.
Leather-wrapped steering bicycle standard.

2006 [edit]

Serenity Tuning added to model
OnStar is now standard on the Rendezvous
Rear park-aid is besides at present made standard on the Rendezvous
3.5 liter V6 Standard
Received chrome Buick tri-shield in grille
A black faced instrument cluster replaced the all silver i used in prior years (2005 in some models)
Ultra Dropped for CXL+

2007 [edit]

OnStar Management and Connections with turn-by-turn navigation
Available in CX, and CXL Trims
Available but in Front Wheel Drive
Standard Mahogany Trimmed Wheel on CXL, Optional on CX
Standard 3rd Row Seat on CXL Trim
Last Yr for the Buick Rendezvous

Sales [edit]

Calendar year	US Sales
2001	31,754^[3]
2002	61,468
2003	72,643
2004	sixty,039
2005	sixty,589
2006	45,954
2007	15,295

References [edit]

^ "Elizabeth Wetzel". Dec 13, 2005.
^ http://media.gm.com/news/releases/b010620a.html^{[ permanent dead link ]}, Retrieved on 2009/01/xv.
^ http://www.autointell.com/nao_companies/general_motors/gm-sales/GM-U.s.a.-data-book-2005.xls

How to Replace Steering Gear 2004 Buick Rendezvous UPDATED