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I will be driving on the road and randomly my vehicle will give me a loss of propulsion warning. This has happened many times on the highway where I-??ve lost acceleration power quickly and have almost been involved in a futile accident as a result. My vehicle also randomly switches from electric to gas sometimes causing my car to jolt
This car is connected to Bouncie a device that detects when a car turns on and off, the speed, if break or acceletor are stepped on forcefully and any trips. Recently the device is detecting the engine is turned off but the car is showing no signs of struggling and its in full motion. This is new, I've tested the device in another car for two weeks hoping it was the device but I had no issues on the other vehicle. The images is just one of several occasions. The image shows green dot where car starts and red where car is turned off. However, I never turned off my car at the Demaree Rd that day. I feel like the car is losing power and starts back up while in motion.
I was driving on a road at roughly 50 mph when suddenly without warming, the screen and everything shut off and went black in the vehicle, and then immediately turned back on, this time with the engine light on. In the following seconds, the gas pedal completely stopped responding, and I had to coast to a stop at the side of the road. It was a dangerous spot on the road to have this happen. I was able to power the vehicle off, and then back on again, and the vehicle functioned normally immediately afterwards, with no engine light on.
Car experienced sudden loss of power while driving. Warning appeared 'Propulsion Power Reduced.' Was able to continue driving short distance home and parked. Attempted to recharge battery but it would not accept charge. I was able to restart car again with "Propulsion Power Reduced' and drove to dealer. Diagnosis: Body Control Module (BCM) failed. Unit was replaced. Vehicle drove normally for short period and issue repeated within one day. Returned to dealer. Issue resolved after second attempt.
Driving 75mph with cruise control during moderate traffic on freeway about 30 minutes after starting the car, my Volt shut off. There was a jolt of the car that felt like strong breaking and my dash along with everything electrical shut off for about 2 seconds then kicked back on with "Service Theft Deterent" on dash. I could not break or steer the vehicle. I had to come to a rolling stop on shoulder of freeway. Luckily I was in toll lane #1 next to the shoulder or I might have been in a wreck with other cars. I have a check engine light on now and a scheduled appointment at Chevy dealer made prior to today for tomorrow. I have had an issue with my Volt not charging at home/work for a few weeks. No breakers pop, the vehicle just wont complete the charge. The battery was replaced a week ago, driven over 250 miles with new battery, and it is still not charging properly. I have no messages on my vehicle regarding battery, engine, etc. Just the check engine light lit up.
- Corona, CA, USA
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The contact owns a 2015 Chevrolet Volt. The contact stated that the air bags warning light activated intermittently while accelerating or during hard braking conditions. The vehicle was taken to bergstrom Chevrolet of middleton (3605 tribeca dr # 101, middleton, wi 53562, (800) 353-1150) to be diagnosed. The contact was informed that the seat belt pretensioner needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired twice. The vehicle was taken back to bergstrom Chevrolet of middleton, where it was diagnosed with needing the wiring harness to be replaced. The vehicle was not yet repaired. The manufacturer was not informed of the failure. The failure mileage was unknown.
Driving on 55 mph straight two lane road when car ahead slowed. To recover energy to the battery, dropped from "D" to "L" in gear selection rather than using brakes (was plenty of distance, but not enough to coast). Car in front turned off to right. I advanced selector to drive, but overshot into neutral. Realized my error when pressing accelerator yielded no speed increase. Put selector into "D", verified visually and pressed accelerator without result. Verified again visually that selector in D. advanced deliberately into N, then back to D, then reapplied accelerator with functional result this time. I am a PE with siemens vdo, retired. Since vehicle is single speed "transmission", I assume computer glitch
While driving on the highway the instrument cluster went blank and turned off. This houses information like warnings, speed, fuel level, battery level, traction, navigation, odometer, light signals and other information. This is a huge safety issue while traveling down the road and losing your ability to look at the speed or if your blinkers or lights are on.
On 8/30/19, I started the vehicle to find the center console in the vehicle is completely blank and the computer controlling the screen is failing to boot. As a result, the operator cannot control the amperage at which the vehicle charges resulting in a reduced charge/range. Additionally, the voice command, stereo, climate control and reverse camera are inoperative. Further, all vehicle controls associated with when to charge (charge delay), security features such as audible horn when locking, which doors to unlock when unlocking vehicle, navigation and fuel efficiency information are inaccessible. Researching similar issues, has resulted in identifying numerous complaints and issues with this center console. The vehicle has a 5 year powertrain warranty; however, Chevrolet does not associate this known issue with the powertrain, instead associating the component part with the infotainment system which is covered under a lesser 3year/36K mile warranty.
My '15 Volt (99K miles) center information display stopped working 3 days ago. In the first 2 days, occasionally it was on. Once on it stayed on, then next restart might not work again. I checked fuse box on the left side of the drive panel. F4 (10A) is supposed for center information display, and continuity was good. I did try pulling it out and putting back in a few times hoping if it was contact issues with the lead I might see difference, but display was still not on. Because the display was not on, the ac does not work, neither do the backup camera, sensors and navigation systems. The vehicle is unsafe to drive. When I googled the same problem, there are many Volt owners eporting the same problem with the center information display not working for both gen 1 and gen 2 Chevy Volt. It was a problem that Chevy has not fixed in a long time. Volt owners should get together to file a class action about this.
I had my 2015 Volt (at ~95000 miles) serviced at american Chevrolet(modesto, ca) on June 19th for regular maintenance. I had 2 miles ev charge left leaving dealership parking. 2 min out of dealership, just before stopping at a red traffic light, I saw an error: "propulsion power is reduced" on display. Then I realized the car had no power at all. Turned off engine, and turned it back on, the screen says "initializing....." and it lasted more than 20 seconds, still no power. All cars were moving again, and I was stuck on the second to the right lane with no power! I power cycled again, still no power. Emergency lights didn't light up during initialization. This meant cars behind me wouldn't see my lights. I have a camera facing the rear, and it should have caught the horrific experience. Now came the scary part, I saw a big SUV driving at probably 60mph came right behind me!! luckily the SUV was able to brake really hard and swerved to my right lane before rear ending me. I got out the vehicle, and started signaling to cars behind me, and all the cars now could see me and changed lanes. I called dealer, and two advisors arrived in just a few mins. They could not figure out why and gave me a ride back to dealership and told me the car would be towed back and diagnosed. My Volt has been still at the dealership being test since June 19th. Today, June 24th, my Chevy advisor, juan moreno called said they've done all tests, and everything has been fine, and they would do some more testing, after which I should be able to pick it up today. On June 19th, I received a letter from GM about a software update, hpcm2. I requested dealer perform the update. I don't know if the software defect caused my Volt losing power. But now I really had concern over the safety of the Volt as it was a family car to haul family.
I returned home from vacation. My car had been sitting in the garage. When I started it up and put in reverse the backup camera was black, the back up lights failed to come on. I checked online and several other people had experienced the same thing that was caused by a short in the driver's side visor that is on the same fuse as the back up camera and lights. I took if to the dealer, when they replaced the fuse, it blew immediately. They ran diagnostics then replaced the visor. The diagnostics cost over $350, the new visor $80. The car had 38000 miles on it. This is a known defect in this vehicle and because of the design of the car, the back up camera is critical to driving safely. This should be a recall item.
The contact owns a 2015 Chevrolet Volt. The contact was unable to roll the front driver and passenger windows up or down. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The dealer and manufacturer were not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 100,000. The VIN was not available.
While driving my Volt on the freeway, both the navigation display and the instrument display went blank. I had no visibility of my speed, fuel status, engine status. I attempted to re display the nav system, but I had to drive the rest of my trip with no display. Played with the lights, on then off no change. I have had this happen on 3 different occasions. All three times, the display was returned on the next day.
I leased a 2015 Chevy Volt, I used the supplied charging station to charge the vehicle. This device overheated earlier in the day, I decided to unplug it and try another outlet. I checked on it 20 minutes later and discovered it was still warm. I thought this was normal, considering it was charging a car. I plugged it in later in the evening. This charger supplied by Chevy then caught fire after being plugged in for about 2-3 hours, and that fire spread to our garage. This fire started from the charger itself and caused damage to our belongings and could have destroyed our entire home.
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- Cerritos, CA, USA