CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2012 Chevrolet Sonic is fairly new & is already showing an early trend of transmission problems.
Owners report hesitation when shifting & grinding/hard shifting into gears. Some dealers are calling the condition "normal". Another owner reported his dealership replaced the transmission under warranty, but the new transmission had the same exact grinding problem. Design defect?
I worked an 8 hour shift at my client's home. When I came out to the driveway to get in my car, it was blaring a radio station that I wasn't even on. The car was off and locked. I blew it off as just a one time thing. The next evening I parked it in my driveway and locked the car with key fob. @When I came out to start the car the next morning, low and behold the radio blaring again!! This continued for a few days before I just pulled the fuse to it out of the fuse box located left and down from the steering wheel. I have been without a radio for three years. They want $1,000 to put a new one in it. I have spent thousands and thousands of dollars already on this piece of junk. Just when I was going to unload it, the pandemic hit. I can't afford to buy a new "used" car now and I can't afford to keep fixing the million things that keep failing on this unreliable garbage.
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I worked an 8 hour shift at my client's home. When I came out to the driveway to get in my car, it was blaring a radio station that I wasn't even on. The car was off and locked. I blew it off as just a one time thing. The next evening I parked it in my driveway and locked the car with key fob. @When I came out to start the car the next morning, low and behold the radio blaring again!! This continued for a few days before I just pulled the fuse to it out of the fuse box located left and down from the steering wheel. I have been without a radio for three years. They want $1,000 to put a new one in it. I have spent thousands and thousands of dollars already on this piece of junk. Just when I was going to unload it, the pandemic hit. I can't afford to buy a new "used" car now and I can't afford to keep fixing the million things that keep failing on this unreliable garbage.
- A C., Kansas City, MO, US