Other steering problem on the 2007 Pontiac G6
15 crashes 4 fires 5 injuries 1 death 25 of the 352 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 steering problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Pontiac G6 report other steering problem at a median of 107,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 64,000 miles and a quarter after 147,000 miles, from 288 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 39,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 179,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 139,438 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
9% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39,162 miles | 64,009 miles | 107,000 miles | 147,250 miles | 178,600 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, 15 a crash, 4 a fire, 5 an injury and 1 a fatality 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 $350–$2,400 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 2006, at a median of 79,000 miles, and latest on the 2010 at 115,000 miles.
By volume the 2006 carries the most reports, with 773; the 2007 has 352. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
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.
There is a steering-related problem with my pontiac g6 sedan. It has a clunk or snap upon backing out of parking-spaces and upon making turns from a dead-stop. It does not occur while at highway speeds. I am worried the steering-box is bad, as this problem occurred on a family 2005 pontiac g6. The box-assembly had to be replaced. Why again two years later on a newer car. *tr
Under good, dry road conditions on a freeway, a vehicle appeared to be moving into my lane and could have hit me. I started to brake to back off and moved to the right of my lane. The result was that the vehicle fishtailed 4 to 6 times before I regained control. There was no collision because I regained control and other drivers backed off. I took the vehicle to the dealership. Their technician replicated the fishtailing. The service department person said that the combination of the g6 suspension, struts, weight distribution, and swept up design resulted in the g6 front dipping down when braked, lifting the rear and locking the brakes. Gm and the dealership did nothing to correct the problem because they claimed that was normal for the vehicle and that the brakes and steering checked out as satisfactory. The dealership which checked the car out bought the car back for $3633 less than I paid for the vehicle a few months before. The vehicle had approximately 2000 miles on it. I believe the basic vehicle design is unsafe if fishtailing occurs with a common evasive maneuver under good weather and road conditions. *tr
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 pontiac g6. While attempting to make a left turn at 10 MPH, the steering wheel became difficult to turn. Suddenly, the steering wheel completely locked and the contact was unable to steer the vehicle. She was able to drive to a nearby service station and left the vehicle there for three days. The mechanic was unable to correct the failure. The current and failure mileages were 24,000.
Also reported on the 2007 Pontiac G6
Cruise control failure
Other brake problem
Other lighting problem
Other electrical problem
Other powertrain problem
Fuel pump failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 352 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 steering problem happen on the 2007 Pontiac G6?
Across 288 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 107,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 64,000 miles and a quarter after 147,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other steering problem on the 2007 Pontiac G6?
352 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 3.3 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