I bought the car in September or October of 2016, it had 107xxx miles on it. It looked and sounded great (aside from some minor body wear and tear). I took excellent care of this car. l always kept it clean, changed the oil and rotated the tires regularly, etc. Loved it. Solid car, decent on gas but strong takeoff and acceleration. I used it for Uber off and on when I was hard up for money.

One day my girlfriend used it and was picking up a ride, and the car just wouldn't go. She called me crying and said she knew the transmission just blew which sucked bad because we were already hard up. I had noticed a very strange whirring noise from behind the dashboard prior to the failure, BE MINDFUL OF THAT NOISE!! It almost sounds like a whiny vacuum line. The trans wouldn't drive in automatic 4 speed, I had to manually shift from 1st, it was the only way it would go anywhere.

I bought a used trans with 88xxx miles on it in February of 2019 and had it installed in the same month. They replaced all the seals (I made sure they showed me the old ones). Guess what? At 130xxx miles it's starting to display the same symptoms. Chuggy takeoff in 1st, random slips in 3rd and 4th, no noise but anticipating it soon. I'm so pissed, I still owe over 3k for a loan for this car and it's now sitting because I don't want it unusable in an emergency.

AVOID, AVOID, AVOID the 2009 3.5 models they are a money pit!

We bought the car so we could have a reliable family car that's great on gas. It had normal wear and tear, had to replace wheel bearings and a CV shaft seal. A few months ago it started to act up and now there's a grinding noise coming from the passenger side output shaft on the tranny. The gears started grinding into the case. It's been sitting in my yard for almost a month now. As many cases as there are about the trans going out on these cars, Chevy should take responsibility and fix them. They know it's a crap transmission and won't do anything to help people out. They could at least make the rebuild kit cheaper.

Just bought this car last year under a 10k loan (ripped-off). I bought the car to replace my previous 2000 Impala with a more current and reliable 2009 Impala for college. I was wrong.

After a couple of months of owning the car, the vehicle started to shift hard and it slipped into gear. I thought it was a good idea to get a transmission flush, which temporarily fixed the problems but after another couple of months, they came back. Fast forward to April, I was driving and the car suddenly would not want to accelerate. It came to a complete stop and would not move. Only reverse worked. Had to get the car towed back to my parking spot at college. Then got the car towed to my hometown about 1 hour away for storage until I figured out what to do.

Ordered a rebuilt transmission off of Ebay for about $1500 and bought transmission fluid from the auto store. Then my Uncle and I replaced the transmission ourselves. I was not going to pay the $4000 the dealer wanted or the $2800 that other repair shops wanted.

My mom gave me her car, a 2009 Chevy Impala in Nov 2011. She bought a brand new 2012 for herself. She is elderly and rarely drives. When I received the 2009 impala it had less then 6,000 miles on it. So, like brand new. I have driven it for 5 years and 9 mos. Then transmission failed on me one morning 7/18/17. Before that I only had to replace 2 batteries, wheel bearings, and tires numerous times because I was cheap and only would buy used tires. Divorced mom of three. Pinching pennies where I can. The air conditioner makes noise when it first turns on but I can ignore it. So back to the transmission. I left my house to go to work 7/18/17 and didn't even make it to the end of the street before the car wouldn't go anymore. It was on, I was pressing the gas and nothing. I could however go in reverse. I backed up into my driveway and called AAA. They towed my car to a shop nearby. I was told by the mechanic without even looking that based on my description that its my transmission and would be $1600 to repair it. I didn't have the money and had to beg my mother to pay and I would reimburse her. I'm just so afraid now that more problems may be at bay. I called the mechanic and he stated that the engine sounds good. Just the transmission is dead. But I know at and over 100,000 miles that my car will need the timing belt, mounts and gaskets checked and water hose. I'm just in a worry because I don't want to be without a car. I don't want a new one right now. The mechanic stated that they would do a diagnostic on the car or check it with the computer once they can drive it again after the transmission is fixed. He quoted me a week for it to be repaired. I dropped it off Tuesday but didn't get down there to sign the work order until they were closing so that pushed it into Wednesday to start working on it. So I have to ride with a co worker to get to work for a few days. Thank God for her.

My husband drove our car to work. When he got off work late that evening. He called me and told me he couldn't come home because the transmission may have gone out in the car. Mind you, my husband works and hour away from where we live. I had to gather my children on a school night to drive an hour away to pick up my husband. In the meantime our car was being towed to the nearest Cheverolet dealership which was closed by the way. He had to miss work the next day to get the business worked out with the car. We eventually had to get the car towed again to a facility close to where we lived because we couldn't afford to pay what Cheverolet was asking to fix it. It was ludacris! Needless to say, we got our car fixed and it is running very well. But you can cool believe, when I am able to purchase another vehicle, it will not be off the lot of a Chevy dealer!!!

I bought this car used in 2012. This car had periodic electrical issues and a CO2 sensor failure, but there were no issues comparable to a total transmission failure. Earlier in the winter of 2015, I noticed that the transmission would not shift up into fourth gear on the freeway until after ten minutes of driving. One day in Ann Arbor, MI, I was accelerating out of a turn when the RPM meter started revving to 6,000 and the engine lost power. After restarting the Impala, the car went a few hundred feet to red light and died at the intersection. I eventually was able to drop this vehicle off at an automotive repair shop following a long trip full of transmission failures and start-ups. The mechanic later stated that the transmission would need to be rebuilt. The repair cost was over $1,600 and the transmission still possesses the same problems that existed prior to this event.

Warning signs to look out for prior to transmission failure:

-Transmission hesitation

-Inability to use fourth gear after cold start

-Imminent sign: loud whine/buzz coming from engine compartment (not fan belt)