8.5
pretty badTypical Repair Cost:
$320.00
Average Mileage:
99,941 miles
Total Complaints:
15 complaints
Most common solutions:
- not sure (8 reports)
- replace ignition switch (4 reports)
- replace the starter (2 reports)
- cleaned the battery terminals (1 reports)
electrical problem
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2008Oct 29
Impala
- Automatic transmission
- 68,000 miles
This is about to drive me nuts. I would hate to be in a hurry. This car will not crank you can turn it over until your fingers go numb, then after you have reach the point of screaming it cranks. This started a few months ago and some days no problems then it will act up for a few days. The ignition switch has been changed before so that should not be the problem. If I switch to my other key sometimes it will start right up. I am going to see if I can have another
2007Aug 30
Impala
- Automatic transmission
- 145,869 miles
O.M.G. I am amaze to see so many people having the same problem as me. I've been having my impala since August of last year and the problem has been going on since then.It started to where i would drive some where and the car would just go dead and i would try and cut it on and the nothing but the radio would play so me not knowing nothing about a car i thought i needed a boost a guy informed me i had to much power to need a boost a couple of more tries and it started, so another day i go somewhere and order food and it does this again and im like oh lord what is wrong, and after attempting to start the car over and over it finally cranked. But, it does it like 5 more times over a few months and my carlot replaces fuel injector. but anyhow its a year later and the car is still doing it and it does it now 3 times a day.In the morning before taking my son to school and here lately its been cutting off while driving. i am so sick of this problem but i am going to try one more option.
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2008Nov 18
Impala LS 3.8L V6
- Automatic transmission
- 65,000 miles
I'm glad to see so many people in the same set of wheels as I am. I thought I was losing it. I explained the problem to my friends and they all said it was the solenoid or the starter. But when the key is turned it doesn't even attempt to kick over, it has plenty of power but none is being used. It's all fun and games till some one gets a case of the ass. I'm in the military, drove to PT formation ran 4 miles came back to my car and it wouldn't start, went through the whole clicking whirling crap and 50 mins later it started up. That was last week I dismissed the whole thing as an isolated incident....yeah. I was called up by a cohort to aid him in finding a deer he downed I came helped out on the way back another friend bagged a big pig (150lbs) I stopped and helped him out. Now it's time to go home and eat dinner and oh yeah it's raining now, nope it's not gonna happen won't start. At this point I still have no idea what's actually the problem, my buddy's tapping on the starter to no avail. I was going to have him bring a trailer in to move the vehicle which currently is on some dirt road waiting to be hopefully started in the morning. Good thing I found this web site I was well on my way to stimulating the local economy. Chevy....hope you've invested my money wisely cause it's the last you're getting from me or my family. I was impressed by the Impala, but not even taking responsibility for you're vehicles is shameless. Don't you know one bad dealing with your company is enough to make you lose your clientele base overnight? Cool Toyota's from here on out! I'll be contacting my local Jag office to see what can and should be done, along with contacting all the appropriate channels of congress and senate to make sure the lines of communication are open and clear. As a leader communication is thee most important thing of any operation. You have communicated to the people (that have purchased the Chevy impala) that you will not take responsibility for your company, thus making peoples lives more difficult with everyday use of your products. Commo check is clear! And the worst thing is the blue collar workers are the ones to pay for white collar ass clown decisions. Thanks
2008Sep 19
Impala 3.6L
- Automatic transmission
- 190,000 miles
I have seen many comments on this problem. Car starts when it feels like it. A mechanic I know told me about it being a security problem- my car thinks I am stealing it. He told me to clean my key with alcohol - this worked for about 3 weeks then my car started now starting again. Luckily I had had a spare key made a few years earlier in which there isn't a chip or whatever is in my other one. I have been using this key and even when the security light is flashing it allows me to start it. At present I haven't been stuck without it starting for about 6 weeks so hopefully this will continue to work. Hope maybe this will help anyone else with this problem, however a friend of mine told me that he can't believe it actually starts my car seeing as I had this key made at walmart.
2006Sep 04
Impala
- Automatic transmission
- 80,521 miles
I had a problem with my car starting, the dealership wanted to charge me for a new ignition switch first and go from there. I was left stranded so many times waiting for my car to start time and time again until it got good and ready. A friend tapped on the started and it started right away. So I changed that out and have not had a problem since, it has started for me everytime so far. It's worth getting that checked before you give into the dealership. Good Luck
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2007Jan 18
Impala
- Automatic transmission
- 76,000 miles
GM certified mechanics at local Chevrolet dealership still could not find out why car was stalling or not starting, so I took car to privately owned garage where mechanic diagnosed an ignition switch problem. After paying $300. for a new switch the car worked fine for a week and the same problems occurred. Later another mechanic said it was the sensor. After paying almost $200 for this the car stills stalls or won't start. Now I'm being told it may be the fuel-injector.
2006May 20
Impala
- Automatic transmission
- 75,000 miles
GM mechanics at local Chevrolet dealership always stated nothing out of the ordinary showed up on the diagnostic tests. However, the car would die in the middle of traffic or on many occasions it just would not start.
2007Nov 06
(reported on)Impala LS 3.8L V6
- Automatic transmission
- 100,000 miles
THIS SUCKS! WTF? So I live in CO and sometimes our winter temperatures get down in the single digits. Why is it that this clicking and dash light show only happen when you're freezing your ass off? I see that many others have had to wait 10 minutes up to a couple hours for their cars to start... luckily... I guess, mine has always started within a like 2 minutes. But, if screws up the radio and resets the time and messes up who knows what else you don't notice. I've also noticed that when this happens, it puts a trouble code into the computer. Luckily, my brother has one of the little hand-held computer things the dealers plug into the car computer and I can clear the code with it. Prevents the problem for a while but by no means fixes the issue. Having the trouble code in the computer seems to make the problem worse... I feel sorry for those that have to go to the dealer to have it cleared as it take about 30 seconds to clear but will cost you $80 or more!
2007Sep 09
(reported on)Impala LS 3.8L V6
- Automatic transmission
- 111,847 miles
My car is having the same symptoms as many other complaints about not starting and just clicking sounds from starter. I am open to any suggestions!!
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2007Aug 07
(reported on)Impala LS V6
- Automatic transmission
- 105,000 miles
MY SECURITY LIGHT COMES ON. THEN, THE NEXT FEW TIMES I CRANK IT, IT DOES NOTHING. MY HUSBAND CAN ALWAYS DO A SECRET CRANK(VERY SLOWLY) AND GET IT CRANKED. I CAN'T! VERY ANNOYING!
2007May 01
(reported on)Impala LX V8
- Automatic transmission
- 181,000 miles
I had only owned my car a couple of months. I bought it from the President at my local bank. Sometimes out of the blue it won't start. I can sit and wait about five or 10 minutes and then it will finally start. I took it to a dealer and they told me it was the ignition switch and it would cost $350.00 to replace. Well being a mother of three that is a big chunk of change to come up with so because it just happens sometimes I chose not to get it fixed. I realize now if I have to be somewhere at a certain time it will be necessary for me to finally fix it seeing as how this problem has made me late for appointments and work several times.
2007Jan 19
(reported on)Impala LS 3.5 V6
- Automatic transmission
- 82,000 miles
Okay. my piece of sh*t Impala was in the shop this summer for over two weeks in California and they finally diagnosed and fixed the faulty crank shaft sensor. NOW the POS has died on me again. We thought it could be a dead battery... replaced it and it still doesn't start. It turned over once and now nothing. It just clicks and the lights inside flash.... unless you turn on the headlights then it flashes faster. My mechanic that I have looking at it is going to check the starter but he thinks it may be a "major electrical problem." THEN it will be towed to the local Chevy dealership here in Oklahoma. Any ideas? I am through with this Impala. I have had it. This POS has left me stranded enough to say I need to get a new car! I feel like this car should come with a warning. I loved it at first too.... it has all leather seats, power seat, sun roof...... but it runs like sh*t! Go figure.
Any ideas would be appreciated!
2006Jul 22
(reported on)Impala
- 86,900 miles
The problem seems to be a failure to start due to something (possibly the security system) not allowing the ignition sequence to start when the key is turned. It has happened three times in the last couple days and after a period of time the car will start and run fine. However, I cannot trust it to start at any given time. After reading some of the other autobeefs I feel it is just a matter of time till it starts stalling as I'm driving.
UPDATE: I've tried cleaning the battery connections on a suggestion from an auto mechanic friend and (touch wood) haven't had a recurrence. Of course, it has only been a couple days. The battery connections looked fine but I cleaned them anyway.
2004Sep 09
(reported on)Impala LS
- 41,980 miles
After telling the chevy mechanic that I don't know from one time to the next if my car will start, I leave the service dept. and when I turn the car off next... you guessed it!!! It won't start again!!! I called the mechanic who had just replaced the airbag sensor and cut loose on the phone! After jumping the car I went straight back to dealership and to the mechanic I had talked to. On the 4th try, the car wouldn't start for him. After having 3 people discussing it, (as I stood there crying) they decided that it was PROBABLY the starter... at this point I went ballistic!!!! I was yelling, crying and telling them that this piece of sh*t (our permanent name for the car) was bleeding us dry!!! I couldn't AFFORD to have them LOOK at the starter to see if it was indeed the problem (THIS TIME) and got in to drive away.. Just one problem... THE CAR WON'T START!!!!! So, picture a woman, sitting in a car, outside the service center, bawling her eyes out, with a car that goes "click, click, click" every time I turn the key!!!!! It took 2-3 minutes before it actually turned over!! My husband replaced the starter the next day and luckily once again we only had to pay for parts...
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2008Sep 18
Impala LS
This is so ridiculous! My car starts when it wants to. Other times you have to wait 30 minutes for it to start. I wish I could rip out the Passlock security system and stomp on it.
Yvonne D.
Hopkinsville, KY, USA
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