2010 CHEVROLET EQUINOX Complaints

I WAS PARKED AT LOCAL EATERY, ENGINE OFF. CAME OUT, STARTED CAR, PUT IN REVERSE AND PROCEEDED OUT OF PARKING SPOT. REVERSE WORKED FINE. PUT CAR IN DRIVE AND NOTHING HAPPENED. IT WAS LIKE THE CAR WAS IN NEUTRAL AND NOT DRIVE. THE ENGINE REVVED BUT THE CAR WOULD NOT MOVE. TRIED SEVERAL TIMES TO NO AVAIL. HAD IT TOWED TO CHEVROLET DEALER. I HAD NO INDICATION OF ANY TROUBLE, NO LEAKS, NO STRANGE NOISES, JUST THE QUIET REVVING OF THE ENGINE WHEN GIVEN THE GAS.

ON THE WAY TO WORK IN MY 2010 CHEVROLET EQUINOX, ON A FRIDAY MORNING, PULLING OUT TO THE HIGHWAY MY CAR DID NOT WANT TO SHIFT AND THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON. THEN IT WOULD NOT GO INTO DRIVE OR REVERSE. AFTER IT WAS TURNED OFF AND SAT FOR A WILE IT WENT INTO GEAR. I THEN WENT BY A LOCAL AUTO STORE AND THEY READ THE CODE AS P0717 AND P0700 THAT HAD TO DO WITH THE TRANSMISSION. I WOULD HAVE TO CONTACT THE DEALER FOR FURTHER INFO. GOT BACK TO WORK AND CALLED THE DEALER AND WAS TOLD THEY COULD NOT SEE ME UNTIL LATE MONDAY OR TUESDAY. SO ALL WEEKEND I DROVE IT, LIGHT WAS NO LONGER ON, THOUGHT EVERYTHING WAS OKAY. FORWARD MONDAY AFTERWORK, AT STOP SIGN AND STARTED TO PULL OUT AND THE CAR WOULD NOT GO INTO GEAR. NO REVERSE EITHER, COASTED DOWN THE HILL TO SIDE STREET AND TURNED OFF THE ENGINE AND AFTER SETTING A FEW MINUTES IT WENT INTO GEAR, BUT ONLY LASTED A SHORT WHILE AND WAS STRANDED AGAIN. HAD TO CALL FOR A TOW AND USED TRANCO TRANSMISSION. THEY CALLED AND SAID THE WAVE PLATE HAD BROKE WHICH HAD CAUSED MORE DAMAGE AND WOULD COST $3400. THE REPAIRMAN SAID THIS HAS HAPPENED IN A LOT OF THESE MOTORS, SO I CALLED GM AND THEY SAID THAT AT THIS TIME THERE IS NO RECALL FOR THIS. BUT IF THEY DO I CAN SUBMIT MY RECEIPT. I'M HOPING THAT IF ENOUGH PEOPLE COMPLAIN THAT THEY WILL TAKE CARE OF THIS PROBLEM. IT COULD HAVE BEEN A BAD SITUATION, BECAUSE I HAD MY GRANDSON IN THE CAR AND WE COULD HAVE GOTTEN HIT TRYING TO PULL OUT AT THE STOP SIGN AND NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET OUT OF THE WAY BECAUSE THE CAR WOULDN'T CHANGE GEARS. JUST GOOGLE WAVE PLATE IN A 2010 EQUINOX AND SEE HOW MANY COMPLAINTS YOU SEE. WHEN I PAY MY BILL, I WILL UPLOAD THE RECIEPT.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2010 CHEVROLET EQUINOX. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE DEFROST SYSTEM FAILED TO OPERATE WHEN ACTIVATED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE AND STATED THAT THE VIN WAS NOT INCLUDED IN NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 09V489000 (VISIBILITY). THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 109,000. THE VIN WAS NOT AVAILABLE.

ON DECEMBER 27, 2015, WE WERE DRIVING ON THE FREEWAY 465 IN INDIANAPOLIS; WE WERE ON THE LEFT LANE, APPROX. 65 MILES PER HOUR WHEN WE HEARD A HUGE EXPLOSION. MY HUSBAND WAS DRIVING AND WAS ABLE TO CONTROL DE CAR AND DRIVE TO THE RIGHT WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO STOP THE CAR. THE SMELL OF BURNING WAS PRETTY INTENSE, WE WERE NERVOUS AND SHOOK UP FOR WHAT HAD HAPPENED SO MY HUSBAND STEPS OUTSIDE TO VIEW THE VEHICLE AND THE VEHICLE DOESN'T HAVE A SCRATCH NOTHING SHOWING THAT WE HIT SOMETHING, HE LOOKED AT THE ROAD AND EVERYTHING WAS CLEAR. WE CALL OUR INSURANCE FOR A TOWING TRUCK AND THEY TOLD US TO CALL 911 FOR A FASTER SERVICE. WHEN I CALL 911 THEY TOLD ME THE POLICE WAS NOT ABLE TO GET INVOLVED BECAUSE IT WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT. AFTER 1 HOUR WAITING FOR TOWING TRUCK, MY HUSBAND DECIDES TO TURN THE CAR BACK ON, AND IT DID. NOTHING WAS WRONG WITH THE ENGINE, TIERS, NOTHING. WE PULL THE SIDE AIRBAGS UP AND HOLD THEM WITH THE CAR WINDOWS AND DROVE TO THE DEALERSHIP. GM IS TELLING US THEY CAN'T FIND WHY DE AIR BAGS DEPLOYED, BUT THEY TOLD ALLSTATE THAT WE MUST OFF HIT SOMETHING CLOSE TO THE FRONT DRIVER WHEEL, AND WE HAVE ALREADY RESEARCH ALL THE ISSUES, AND IT'S TELLING US THAT THE AIRBAGS CAN'T BE DEPLOYED FOR THAT REASON. WE WERE VERY LUCKY WITH SOME BRUISES IN OUR ARMS AND NECK, BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THIS HAS TO DO WITH ANY RECALLS OR SYSTEM MALFUNCTIONING.

ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS, WHEN THE CAR WAS STATIONARY, IT WOULD NOT SHIFT OUT OF PARK AFTER STARTING THE CAR AND RELEASING EMERGENCY BRAKE. I WOULD JUST HEAR THIS CLICKING NOISE NEAR THE KEY IGNITION WHEN I TRIED TO MOVE IT OUT OF PARK. I'VE HAD THE CAR IN AND OUT OF SERVICE ABOUT 6 TIMES FROM JULY - DEC 2015 BECAUSE OF THIS. FIRST FEW TIMES, THE MECHANICS COULD NOT GET THE PROBLEM TO DUPLICATE. ONE OF THOSE TIMES, THEY THOUGHT THE BATTERY CAUSED IT AND SAID IT NEEDED TO BE REPLACED ANYWAY BC IT WAS WEAK - I DID THAT. ANOTHER TIME, THEY SAID IT WAS BC SOME STUFF HAD SPILLED DOWN IN THERE WHERE THE SHIFTER CABLES WERE, SO THEY CLEANED AND REWIRED IT. STILL ANOTHER TIME THEY SAID A COMPUTER PART WAS SENDING WEAK SIGNALS, SO THEY REPLACED THAT. THE SHIFTER ASSEMBLY WAS REPLACED ONCE, THEN AGAIN BC ONE OF THE PARTS WAS DEEMED DEFECTIVE. THIS LAST VISIT (DEC 2015), THEY SAID IT WAS BAD WIRING FROM THE ECM THAT CAUSED IT. SOME OF THESE SERVICE/DIAGNOSTIC FEES & THE COST OF TOWING HAVE BEEN WAIVED OR REIMBURSED, OTHERS HAVE NO. NONE OF THE ISSUES SPECIFICALLY "RELATED" TO THE SHIFTER ASSEMBLY WERE COVERED UNDER WARRANTY OR RECALL. SO AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, I HAVE BEEN OUT AT LEAST $500-700 OVER THESE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS. HUGE INCONVENIENCES - BEING STUCK AT WORK AT THE END OF THE DAY OR AT HOME AS I'M READY TO LEAVE FOR WORK. I AM PLANNING TO TRADE THIS CAR IN WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH OR TWO. IF IT HADN'T BEEN FOR ALL OF THIS, I WOULD'VE LOVED THE CAR. I WAS SATISFIED WITH EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT IT.

WHILE OPERATING VEHICLE, (ANYWHERE BETWEEN IDLING TO TRAVELLING 40 MPH) THE "SERVICE STABILITRAK" MESSAGE WILL APPEAR ON CONSOLE BETWEEN TACHOMETER AND SPEEDOMETER. DRIVING THE VEHICLE ANY FURTHER WILL CAUSE THE INSTRUMENT PANEL GLITCH, AND ALL READINGS WILL GO TO ZERO (TACH, SPEED, TEMP) WHILE ENGINE IS STILL RUNNING. FURTHER OPERATION WILL CREATE SUDDEN JERKS IN THE TRANSMISSION UNTIL THE TRANSMISSION GOES TO THIRD GEAR AND REMAINS UNTIL ENGINE IS CUT OFF. AFTER CUTTING OFF ENGINE AND TRYING TO RESTART, THE INSTRUMENT PANEL WILL GO DIRECTLY TO "SERVICE STABILITRAK" MESSAGE AND THE ENGINE WON'T TURN OVER. HAVE HAD THE VEHICLE TOWED THREE TIMES ON SEPARATE OCCASIONS AFTER NOT STARTING BACK UP. HAVE ALREADY SPENT OVER $2K IS DIFFERENT DIAGNOSIS AND REPAIR/REPLACE ACTIONS. CONSIDERING THAT THIS WEBSITE HAS 8 SEPARATE SERVICE BULLETINS CONCERNING THE "SERVICE STABILITRAK" AND 11 DIFFERENT COMPLAINTS CONCERNING "STABILITRAK", THIS IS AN ONGOING AND COMMON ISSUE. I HAVE A WORKMATE THAT HAD A GMC (SAME GENERATION, NOT SURE OF YEAR) THAT HAD SIMILAR ISSUES WITH "SERVICE STABILITRAK" TO THE POINT OF DUMPING THE VEHICLE TO GET SOMETHING MORE RELIABLE.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2010 CHEVROLET EQUINOX. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 45 MPH, THE VEHICLE JERKED AND FAILED TO ACCELERATE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE TRANSMISSION NEEDED TO BE RPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 140,000.

MY EQUINOX ENGINE LIGHT CAME UP WHILE DRIVING IN THE HIGHWAY, I HEAR A NOISE IN THE ENGINE EVERY TIME I ACCELERATE, AND THE TRUCK WOULD SHAKE A BIT, PUT THE SUV IN THE MACHINE AND GOT A P0300 CODE FOR MISFIRE, THE COILS AND SPARKPLUGS WHERE LOOSE AND OUT OF PLACE FOR THE SECOND TIME IN LESS THAN SEVEN MONTHS.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2010 CHEVROLET EQUINOX. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE SYSTEM OVERHEAT LIGHT ILLUMINATED ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL, WHICH INDICATED THAT THE VEHICLE OVERHEATED. THE THERMOSTAT INDICATOR INDICATED THAT THE COOLANT SYSTEM WAS OPERATING NORMALLY. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER, BUT THE CAUSE OF THE FAILURE COULD NOT BE DETERMINED. THE DEALER REPLACED THE WATER PUMP, THERMOSTAT, TIMING CHAIN, FUEL LINES, AND UPDATED THE SOFTWARE; HOWEVER, THE REPAIRS DID NOT CORRECT THE FAILURE. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 80,000.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNED A 2010 CHEVROLET EQUINOX. WHILE DRIVING 35 MPH, THE CONTACT ATTEMPTED TO AVOID HITTING A DEER AND STRUCK THE GUARDRAIL. THE AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY. THE EMERGENCY ONSTAR SYSTEM RESPONDED AND CALLED THE POLICE AND AMBULANCE. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO A COLLISON CENTER WHERE THE VEHICLE WAS DIAGNOSED AS DESTROYED. THE CONTACT SUSTAINED INJURIES TO THE HEAD, NECK, BACK, AND HANDS. A POLICE REPORT WAS FILED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 57,000.