This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
Fortunately, I had just gotten off the freeway and was looking for an address at a slow speed. All of a sudden the car lurched; I had no steering; I lost all electrical control; the car ground to a halt; smoke came out from under the hood. I and a friend got out of the car. Fortuitously, fire trucks appeared. It turned out they were returning from another incident as I could not believe the immediacy of their response. They took over preventing further aggravation of this situation. The battery was boiling. All the electrical wire harnesses were melted. The upper suspension control arm was broken. The firemen's observation was, if I had been going any faster, the car could have flipped. After being towed to a nearby mechanic, I learned the upper control arm had broken. It impailed the starter which shorted. That melted the wiring harnesses to and from the battery, as well as being the cause of the battery boiling. The key issue is that General Motors would build a vehicle where the upper control arm is so flimsy it would break. I have read other incidents of the same thing with the Chevrolet Blazer where, for example, a person was going 30mph, the car flipped, and the person was knocked unconscious. A repeated corporate failure of this nature should have consequences.
Accelerator sticks due to carbon buildup on throttle body. Gasoline prematurely burns before reaching the cylinder. Ball joints had to be replaced. Engine oil leaks. Coolant leaks. Transmission leaks.
While driving, the rpms started revving while cruise control was activated, consumer turned cruise control off, however was knocked out by the inadvertent deployment of the air bag, causing his foot to hit the accelerator pedal, vehicle went across the passing lane, over a guardrail and down a 30 foot embankment.
While driving with speed control on, vehicle started to accelerate. Also, air bags deployed, knocking consumer out. Vehicle crashed and consumer was injured. Consumer states that the deployment of the air bag is what caused the accident.
Throttle stuck while driving. Consumer applied brakes, and vehicle would slow down. As soon as consumer stopped applying brakes vehicle accelerated back to 35 mph. Vehicle was taken to dealer, but no problem was found.
When starting vehicle for the first time that day engine revved to its maximum acceleration immediately. Driver turned engine off instantly. When restarted, problem did not exist. Dealer has been notified.
Consumer was traveling about 35mph and was entering freeway when vehicle started to acellerate and engine just rise up, like it was in neutral, and vehicle decreased speed. Transmission was replaced inside of vehicle. Dealership was aware of this problem there were several incidents happening on this vehicle. The vehicle was brought to the dealer five times for this problem. Each time the dealer replaced different component air flow sensor, fuel pump and transmission. The provlem still reoccurs and the dealer can not find the cause.
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- Palos Verdes Estates, CA, USA