Other powertrain problem on the 2007 Pontiac G6
2 crashes 1 fire 3 of the 65 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other powertrain problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Pontiac G6 report other powertrain problem at a median of 90,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 57,500 miles and a quarter after 120,000 miles, from 53 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 92,000 miles. It is the 6th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 35,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 157,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 123,800 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
11% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34,600 miles | 58,000 miles | 89,999 miles | 120,684 miles | 158,400 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 2 a crash and 1 a fire are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $400–$4,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 6 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2010, at a median of 70,000 miles, and latest on the 2006 at 112,500 miles.
By volume the 2007 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
We own a 2007 pontiac g6 gtp. My wife backs out of the driveway in the morning stops completely, puts the car in drive, however the car sometimes will not go forward for 5 to 15 seconds. We have taken it to our dealership many times for this problem. They ended up replacing the transmission. At the time there were less than 2,000 miles on this car. The problem still continues,it is still doing the same thing.they just finished putting in 2 new front axel shafts. The car now has 4,700 miles on it . My wife is very afraid of this car as she almost got hit because it would not move forward. She refuses to take this brand new car out of town, because she has no idea what might happen next. *tr
We own a 2007 pontiac g6 gtp. My wife backs out of the driveway in the morning stops completely, puts the car in drive, however the car sometimes will not go forward for 5 to 15 seconds. We have taken it to our dealership many times for this problem. They ended up replacing the transmission. At the time there were less than 2,000 miles on this car. The problem still continues,it is still doing the same thing.they just finished putting in 2 new front axel shafts. The car now has 4,700 miles on it . My wife is very afraid of this car as she almost got hit because it would not move forward. She refuses to take this brand new car out of town, because she has no idea what might happen next. *tr
Automobile purchased as new. Rotors not vented properly and were replaced with brake pads at 32,200 miles. Insisted that dealer/pontiac corporate handle under warranty. At 32,900 miles car stopped at light and did not advance when accelerator was depressed. The transmission required full replacement because the sprag "blew up" and was covered under power train warranty. Will never lease or buy pontiac again. *tr
Also reported on the 2007 Pontiac G6
Other steering problem
Cruise control failure
Other brake problem
Other lighting problem
Other electrical problem
Fuel pump failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 65 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other powertrain problem happen on the 2007 Pontiac G6?
Across 53 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 90,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 57,500 miles and a quarter after 120,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other powertrain problem on the 2007 Pontiac G6?
65 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.6 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed