6.0

fairly significant
Typical Repair Cost:
No data
Average Mileage:
99,000 miles
Total Complaints:
1 complaints

Most common solutions:

  1. not sure (1 reports)
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problem #1

Jul 152014

Optima LX

  • Automatic transmission
  • 99,000 miles

I was backing out of a parking lot on a downhill when the brakes and steering wheel locked on me. I almost crashed into another car. Thankfully, it saw me and began backing up. To fix it, I restarted the car (turned the car off then back on again) and was able to stop (brake) the car. It freaked me out and almost caused a crash, but was the only time it happened. My boyfriend crashed the car a few months later :P

- Faith K., Columbia, MO, US