# Service bulletin PIC\-5679

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10044390
- Published by NHTSA: 2012\-06\-18
- Manufacturer's number: PIC\-5679
- Manufacturer's date: 2012\-05\-01
- NHTSA component: STEERING:RACK AND PINION

## NHTSA's summary

GM: POWER STEERING HARD TO TURN AT SLOW SPEEDS. POSSIBLE VARIABLE EFFORT POWER STEERING SOLENOID VALVE CONNECTOR BACKWARD/REVERSED AT RACK AND PINION CONNECTOR \(ON FRAME\). \*JS

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Steering, Steering gear

## Vehicles listed

- 2010 to 2012 BUICK LACROSSE
- 2011 to 2012 BUICK REGAL

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [PIT5063D](/bulletins/10112379.md), 2017-08-15, Service bulletin: STEERING:GEAR BOX \(OTHER THAN RACK AND PINION\); STEERING. This Preliminary Information communication provides information to the technician with a diagnostic tip service steering message or service stability message. Technician may find a Diagnostic Trouble Code C056E Sym 42 and a Diagnostic Trouble Code C0569 Sym 3A setting after a new steering gear assembly was installed. If Diagnostic Trouble Code C0710 Sym 71 is set it must be addressed firth before performing a steering gear "set\-up" in Service Programming System. Steering Angle Sensor module Diagnostic Trouble Code C056D Sym 00 and it must be address first. Technician should be advised that Diagnostic Trouble Codes DTC C056E Sym 42 or C0569 Sym 3A will set when a steering gear assembly was replaced without Service Programming System programming.
- [PIE\-0178](/bulletins/10039590.md), 2011-08-03, Service bulletin: STEERING:GEAR BOX \(OTHER THAN RACK AND PINION\); STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:POWER STEERING FLUID. GM: 2011 BUICK REGAL/LACROSSE. POWER STEERING FLUID IS LEAKING FROM THE VEHICLE. NO ROOT CAUSE DETERMINED. \*RM UPDATED 10/3/11. \*PE

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