Feeling very upset! Just got a call from Chevy Service Center and was told that I needed to replace my transmission. WTF- my car was 2011- regularly service and maintained and had about 88,000 miles. They said it was an estimated price of $4700.00. What? for a 2011 transmission? If I was to fix it, I would be investing more than it's worth. I checked NADA- not worth it.
One thing I don't understand is why the heck did they put the dipstick, to check transmission oil, under the car, under a bracket that you have to unscrew to get to, instead of putting it under the hood like everyone else... oh, because you want mechanics to keep overpricing us, on something that the consumer can probably do with the help of YouTube of course.
I'm just so tired of investing on something that is so expensive, and always getting screwed. My car should out last my cell phone.
I BOUGHT THIS VEHICLE BACK IN 2015 EVERYTHING SEEMED GREAT BUT WHEN THE TRANSMISSION STARTED SLIPPING THIS PAST MONTH I HAD CALLED DEALERSHIP AND THEY TELL ME NEED NEW TRANSMISSION ALTHOUGH THE DEALER SHIP I HAD BOUGHT IT FROM THE SALES DEPARTMENT IS GREAT BUT THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT SUCKS. TRIED TO GET OVER ON ME MORE THEN ONCE, SO I JUST LEFT A TRANSMISSION PLACE HERE IN TOWN AND THEY TESTED DROVE IT AND SAID THAT IT DOES NEED TO BE REPLACED AMD ITS GONNA COST AROUND 4,000.00 WHY DIDNT THIS HAPPEN UNDER WARRANTY!!!!!!! THEY NEED TOP RECALL THIS CRAP
The car will not move when shifted in reverse. The engine revs up and accelerates when you push on the gas pedal but the car will not move. Goes into drive, but thats it!!!Called dealer where I bought the car in August of 2014 and was told that the car was just out of warranty the beginning of this year!!! How nice!!!!I will NEVER BUY another Chevy product!!!
Update from Oct 4, 2018: The Car has NO OIL!!!!! to a drop!!! Had the oil changed in Feb 2018. Not even 4000 miles on the oil change. NO WARNING WHATSOEVER... NO INDICATOR GIVEN BY CARS WARNING SYSTEM OFD LOW OIL OR ANYTHING!!!!!! NOW THE CAR BUSCK, SPITS STALLS JERKS AND WONT RUN!!! CHECY CLEARLY KNEW ABOUT THE ISSUES AND DID NOTHING TO PREVENT THIS!!! THE TIRE PRESSURE LIGHT ALSO STAYS ON CONSTANTLY FOR NO REASON!!! IM CERTIN I GOT A LEMON!!
As I said before. This is the continuing saga of a vehicle that has had issue after issue and the reason I am making this issue known is that issues simply continue to happen with no way to know when or if the issues may ever come to and end.
- Scott B.,
Grand Haven, MI, US
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The 6-speed electronic transmission has had very strange erratic shift patterns for many years. It is a "sealed system" with no dip stick, so the owner cannot check the fluid levels. The transmission intermittently fails to launch the car when pushing the gas pedal so that RPMs are high, but a 1-3 second delay causes extremely dangerous driving conditions when pulling out into traffic. It will hesitate long enough to leave you in harms way and then accelerate late causing oncoming traffic to brake for you (hopefully).
So I've always bought Chevy, I love their cars.. Any who, while driving home yesterday, my car started to act up and sputter.. Shift by itself and then when I got home I parked the car. I was really nervous to drive it. I noticed when I went to back up. I no longer can reverse my car.
After travelling on the Interstate for 100 miles, I arrived at my exit and stopped at a light. The transmission banged and jumped hard into gear. After 300 yards it failed to engage at all. Called dealer to pick up with truck. After two weeks I was informed that there was a "plate" failure and GM was going to rebuild the transmission.
Update from Aug 31, 2015: The rebuilt transmission lasted only 4,000 miles before symptoms appeared again. The transmission banged into gear or sometimes would not engage at all after a stop. After several visits to the dealer, where they could not find any problem or computer record of the failures, the transmission failed completely with a lot of noise. Fortunatelly I was in town and had the car towed to the dealer again. This time GM agreed to replace the transmission. So far I have 5,000 miles on the new transmission with no problems.
Took my car into the dealership to fix a jumping transmission. It would jerk once it reached 35 mph. It took them 3 weeks to fix the problem. Lucky for them I had a loaner and it was covered from the extended warranty
Do not buy this brand of car - its not worth the money.
Dec 23, 2014: While driving to work I crossed over a main highway when the car started to die when I accelerated. I pulled over. Shut the car. Restarted and the transmission loudly kicked back & forth and couldn't go into gear. I tried putting in reverse and the same thing. Finally the car would not go forward or reverse. I called dealer. They sent a flat bed. After 3 weeks they decided to install a new transmission when they found the "something" plate was broken. When I finally picked up the car they said it still didn't test smooth but to put 150 more miles on it to get used to my driving. It's getting worse again. I have an appointment to bring the car in for service tomorrow, Feb 4, 2015. This is the 3rd time this car is being brought in for transmission problems.
Update from Feb 6, 2015: January 4, 2015 - service department found a defective plate caused fluid to leak. Replaced plate and filled with fluid. Car is finally running smooth. No slippage or clunky noises from transmission.
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Feeling very upset! Just got a call from Chevy Service Center and was told that I needed to replace my transmission. WTF- my car was 2011- regularly service and maintained and had about 88,000 miles. They said it was an estimated price of $4700.00. What? for a 2011 transmission? If I was to fix it, I would be investing more than it's worth. I checked NADA- not worth it.
One thing I don't understand is why the heck did they put the dipstick, to check transmission oil, under the car, under a bracket that you have to unscrew to get to, instead of putting it under the hood like everyone else... oh, because you want mechanics to keep overpricing us, on something that the consumer can probably do with the help of YouTube of course.
I'm just so tired of investing on something that is so expensive, and always getting screwed. My car should out last my cell phone.
- Alma N., Salt Lake City, UT, US