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While driving in the morning commute to work, the car warning lights suddenly chime with service stabil-trak, reduced engine power, traction control off. The car suddenly starts to slow down. I have about 1-2 minutes before the car will completely shut off. Once it completely shuts down, it starts to rough idle and the whole car shakes. If I try to shift it into any gear, it shuts down automatically. Car becomes unable to be driven and has to be towed to dealership. Typically once the repair has been made, it is about 3 days until the issue happens again. I have been left stranded on the side of the road 3 separate times now. I have missed work, been late to work, and had to ask coworkers to give me rides home when it is completely out of the way. Car only has about 36,200 miles on it.
While driving at 60 mph on my morning commute to work, I was about 15 miles into my drive when suddenly the warning lights chime and the stabil trak/reduced engine power, and traction control off warning messages come on. The car suddenly reduces power and takes about 1-2 minutes before all power goes off and car will not drive any more. Once I try to put car in any kind of gear afterwards, car shuts off and will not turn back on. This is the second time this has happened. Car had to be towed. Dealership fixed a camshaft/crankshaft sensor. Did not work.
While driving to work, I had slowed down behind a bus and as I started to accelerate and car suddenly shuts down. The engine light, stabil trak, traction control off, reduced engine power messages come on. The car suddenly slows down leaving 1-2 minutes to get over. Once this message comes on, the car suddenly starts to shake hard all over and idles really rough. If I try to shift it into any gear, it completely shuts off. The car is inoperable and has to be towed. Mileage estimated at 35,000.
When I am driving the car will all of a sudden jerk like it looses power and then pulls really bad. Taken it in several times and they say that they dont know what it could be. It has happened several times and nothing.
While driving my 2014 Chevy Traverse my stability track light and engine light came on loss of power the car jerks cannot control it can cause an accident happened more than once this is November 1, 2017 that happened or five times already call today to complain to Chevy my car is now the dealership trying to figure out what is wrong with
- Chesapeake Beach, MD, USA
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Service stabilitrak, reduced engine power, traction control off warnings all came on with no warning or reason. Vehicle lost all power and wouldn't move. This is a known issue with many Chevy models and years.
Takata recall, driving on the highwau my traction controll and check engine light came on. The powere of my engine reduced and my speed would not go faster 25mph. This is the second time this has happen but when I taken the vehicle to the dealership the first time the problem does not occur and nothing is fix.
This report is related to a known and widespread computer glitch in late model GM cars. The glitch seems to be triggered by other system faults when the car is in motion causing multiple failures rendering the car unable to maintain speed over 20 mph or so and also affecting the braking system. Please watch this video https://youtu.be/hbvaoiixnxy and then read the comments. This has been going on for years across a variety of GM models including the 2017 Traverse. It is a major safety issue as the cars become seriously incapacitated when the glitch occurs. There is no clear failure occurring and there are no faults recorded in the car's modules making it very difficult to diagnose and repair. If we didn't have the video I took to prove it was happening the dealership would have sent us away again. Please watch the video, everything you need to know is in there. People continue to comment on our video because it is still happening! there is a report for a 2017 Traverse in the comments section! thank you!
Purchased the vehicle in Jan/2017 certified pre-owned. After about 2-3 months I would notice a lack of power when trying to accelerate. It seemed as though the vehice was trying to keep up on a 25mph street. The vehicle would also "jerk" when accelerating. And just today I got a flashing check engine light and a warning that the traction control was off, has a loss of engine power, and after about 30 seconds the warnings went away and the car began to gain acceleration.
The check engine light keeps coming on, but no problem can be found by the dealership. The transmission keeps "jerking" or it even feels like it is falling out. I've read that it can take a while for the vehicle to "learn" how you drive, but this doesn't feel right. Almost too scared to drive. I was stopped at a stop light and my vehicle stalled (I didn't realize this until I tried to go at a green light) and wouldn't move...even when I didn't have it in park. I had to turn it off and on twice before my vehicle would move. I've had electrical problems with the vehicle as well. It's only a 2014. This should not be happening!
While driving this car I will get three audible "bongs" then I will get error messages "service stabilitrak", traction control off", engine power reduced". at this time I have no control over the speed of this vehicle. I can depress the gas pedal and get an increase in engine RPM but no more forward speed (mph). My forward speed will continue to decrease. I will have to pull off the road and turn the engine off. Wait two or three minutes then restart the engine. If I am lucky the vehicle will operate normally but will display a service light on the dash board. This vehicle is dangerous. I have contacted my auto dealer and parts were installed. I asked about the cause of this predicament and the service manager said the same situation could be caused by a hundred different sensors in the vehicle. I now have the same problem with this vehicle. 17K miles and 12 months later. Again; this vehicle is dangerous. If this happens while passing another vehicle on a country road or if these errors occur while driving down an on ramp to hi-way traffic the danger increase. I understand the need for error messages to warn of engine problems but the control of forward speed should not be taken away from the driver.
Engine power reduced, stability track loss lights came on and my vehicles engine power came to a stop with my children in the car with my wife on the hwy. Could not move the vehicle. Dealership can not figure out the issue, only found multiple codes from the past and still could not solve the issue. GM needs to stand by their product and replace these vehicles asap or fix this issue. Lawsuits will be filed.
Over the past 2 years 10 months I have lost the coolant in my air conditioner. They have filled it several times, adding dye, but had not been able to find the leak even though they acknowledged it was lost. Since the warranty was running out we took it in again after dye had been added and they finally started to look at the evaporators. They could not thoroughly inspect the front evaporator since a full inspection requires removal of the dashboard. They looked at the rear evaporator and found some corrosion (with a mirror) and a pinhole leak.. when they went to order a new part and GM had a footnote that if they were ordering a replacement evaporator they should also order and replace the blower motor since the copper in the motor brushes was attacking the aluminum evaporator. (the more you used the ac, the sooner it would show up and cause the corrosion. This is why each time it took about 8 months for the coolant to leaked out.) both rear ac parts were replaced but the blower motor for the front evaporator was not replaced and this may also be going bad. We won't know for a while since we won't be using the ac during the fall and winter months. Also, if these motors corrode the aluminum evaporator, it could easily attack other aluminum parts in the car and of course the coolant has been leaking into the interior of the car, both of which which may be a major safety concern.Chevrolet was aware of the issue but did not to recall these cars since generally the issue may not show up until the car is out of warranty. I have E-mails from john thornton Chevrolet's service man along with a picture of the evaporator but have not been able to attach them to this complaint form.
I was sitting at a light and heard chimes. The vehicle display showed service traction control, service stabilitrak and traction control turned off. When the light changed the vehicle would not move. There was some kind of engine loss but it did not stall out. The radio and the air were on and working fine. I tried many attempts multiple times to get the car to move but it would not move. This included putting it in park and also turning it on and off. The warnings continued to flash. Then after one attempt I felt it start to move at an extremely low rate of speed. As I was turning into a parking lot I felt something catch and the vehicle started moving at a normal speed. I turned the vehicle on and off again once I was in the parking lot. The engine light appeared but the service stabilitrak and service traction control did not display again. I know for a fact the engine light was not on when I was unable to move the vehicle. I took the vehicle to the dealer and they were unable to duplicate the problem. There was nothing done to the vehicle and I was told that they have to duplicate it. I was also told this will occur again, the problem will not go away but get progressively worse over time and hopefully the next time the vehicle will not be able to start. I checked NHTSA website and there seems to be a number of complaints made for the exact same thing with many makes and models. This is a lease vehicle and I did contact GM and have a case number. I understand cars breakdown but what I don't understand is that a serious safety issues needs to be duplicated before a part can be replaced. I find it hard to believe there is not a recommended fix for this.
My car has been in the dealership three times for the same problem. After the car has been sitting, within 5-10 minutes of driving it will run rough, buck and not accelerate. The check engine light flashes in addition to the service traction control light. When you stop and turn off the car all of the system lights turn off. This happens intermittently the first time it was serviced the dealership changed the injectors on one side, then five months later it started again. Went to another dealership and they said they could not replicate the problem. Now at the first dealership that replaced the injectors and no system codes presented and they are not able to replicate the issue.
1.- during the last quarter of 2015, the vehicle started failing, shutting down itself on road or pulled over (random fail) 2.- after several days of 'analysis', they determined that a 'module' was damaged and had to be exchanged zero cost, since the vehicle is still under warranty. 3.- after several days of the car on the workshop, the finally provide us the car again, stating that everything was properly fixed and resolved. 4.- on January 2016, vehicle shutdown surprisingly on a road at high speed. Vehicle was sold in Mexico and dealership has not provided satisfactory service
As the vehicle was drining 50 mph, the car pulled to one side and slowed. And was not easily controllable. Nearly causing an accident I had to go over 3 lanes of traffic to safely pull over. The "traction control is off" light came on at the dashboard and the check engine light flashed several times. I hit the button to turn on traction control but it did nothing.
I was doing about 70 on xway and car started to slow down and jerking and engine light came on and said something about traction control off and also stability control. It lasted for about 30 seconds and then was ok. I took it in and they could not find anything. Now this happened again yesterday as I was getting onto the xway at about 55 mph. Now 29700 miles as I take again tomorrow and see if they can find anything this time.
During driving on the highway at speed 65 mph the power was totally lost. "stabilitrak, tranction control, reduced engine power" showed up on the display of the dashboard. I was lucky to pull to the side of highway.
Was drivingon garden state parkway, doing about 65 and allof a sudden my car started to shimmy and the traction control was flashing and the engine light went on. I tried to keep the car in control and started to pull over to the shoulder, by the time I got over the car went back to normal. It lasted about 2-3 minutes. I googled about this problem and saw that I am actually lucky that my engine did'nt shut off because apparently everyone else who this happened to, their engines actually shut off. I am bringing it to the dealership to be evaluated today. I am terrified to drive this car again!!
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- Sheridan, IN, USA