2007 CHEVROLET HHR Complaints

THE POWER STEERING GOES OUT WITHOUT WARNING. IT STARTED ON A THURSDAY AND WE CHANGED OUT THE RELAY AND THAT SEEMED TO WORK. TWO DAYS LATER, IT WENT OUT AGAIN. IT WAS OVER HEATING THE RELAY. THIS ISSUE WITH POWER STEERING CAN CAUSE AN ACCIDENT OR KILL SOMEONE. I GOOGLE PROBLEMS WITH HHR AND THERE ARE PLENTY OF ISSUE. WE, HHR OWNERS, NEED SOME ASSISTANCE. MY FAMILY HAS BEEN BUYING GM VEHICLE, AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER. *JS

I BOUGHT MY CAR A WEEK AGO. DROVE IT HOME WITH NO INCIDENT. THEN DROVE IT WAS ON THE HIGHWAY TO TAKE MY ELDERLY MOTHER TO AN AIRPORT 40 MILES AWAY. AFTER SEEING HER OFF, I WENT TO GET MY NEW CAR WASHED. THEN GOT BACK ONTO THE I-5 AND DROVE ABOUT 3 MILES, WHEN I HEARD A TONE AND THE DASH BOARD UNDER THE SPEEDOMETER LIT UP, STATING I HAD LOST POWER STEERING. I WAS IN THE MIDDLE LANE OF SIX LANES, GOING 60 MILES AN HOURS IN A BRAND NEW TO ME CAR I WAS NOT USED TO DRIVING, IN CONGESTED COMMUTER TRAFFIC. I AM NOT STRONG. I WAS SCARED OUT OF MY MIND. LUCKILY I WAS ON A STRAIGHT AWAY. I PUT ON MY HAZARD LIGHTS AND PEOPLE EVENTUALLY LET ME OVER. I TOOK THE NEXT OFF RAMP AND MANAGED MY WAY HOME ON FRONTAGE ROADS AND SIDE STREETS, WHICH OF COURSE TOOK FOREVER. ARRIVING HOME I TURNED THE IGNITION OFF AND CRIED WITH RELIEF AND FRUSTRATION. THEN I TURNED THE IGNITION BACK ON TO SEE WHAT THE MESSAGE ON THE DASH WAS AGAIN AND IT WAS GONE. I'M TERRIFIED TO DRIVE THIS CAR AGAIN. AND EVERYTHING THING I'VE READ ONLINE SINCE, SAID THAT IF THE SHOP DOESN'T SEE THE MESSAGE OR DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM, THEY CAN'T FIX IT, EQUALLING MONEY WASTED. THIS PROBLEM IS NOT NEW, HIGHLY DANGEROUS AND RECALLED IN AT LEAST ONE OF CHEVROLET'S OTHER CARS AND RECALLED ON THE HHR IN CANADA. WHY NOT HERE??? AREN'T AMERICANS AS VALUABLE AS CANADIANS??? PLEASE MAKE THIS A RECALL AND CONTACT ME WHEN YOU DO. I HAVE A CAR I CAN'T DRIVE WITHOUT FEAR AND CAN'T SELL IN GOOD CONSCIENCE. I AM OLDER, IN POOR HEALTH AND WITHOUT MUCH MONEY, I FEEL THAT I HAVE BEEN CHEATED. NO ONE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SELL UNSAFE CARS ANY WHERE!!! I ALSO FEEL THIS PROBLEM IS WHY CHEVROLET IS DISCONTINUING THE HHR, AND LEAVING US OUT IN THE COLD WITH THEIR MISTAKE. DOES SOMEONE HAVE TO DIE FOR A RECALL??? I FEEL IT WAS CLOSE IN MY CASE!!! *I WILL BEGRUDGINGLY BE TAKING IT TO A DEALER FOR REPAIR. WHAT ELSE CAN I DO? *TR

POWER STEERING GOES OUT WITHOUT WARNING, HAVE TO RESTART CAR TO REACTIVATE. WAS GOING DOWN A HILL AND IT KICKED OUT SO I HAD TO RESTART THE CAR AS I WAS ROLLING DOWN THE HILL. NOT SAFE AT ALL. I CAN MANAGE BUT A MOM WITH KIDS MIGHT PANIC AND SOMETHING MORE SERIOUS MIGHT OCCUR. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 CHEVROLET HHR. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING AT VARIOUS SPEEDS, THE WHEEL SEIZED WITH THE ILLUMINATION OF THE POWER STEERING WARNING LIGHT. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC FOR DIAGNOSIS BUT THEY WERE UNABLE TO DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 74,000.

ENGINE LIGHT COMES ON AND ALONGWITH THE TRACTION LIGHT TOOK IT TO DEALERSHIP STATED THAT SPARK PLUGS NEED TO BE REPLACE ALSO ENGINE COIL HAD ALL NEW SPARK PLUGS REPLACE AN ALL NEW ENGINE COIL PROBLEM STILL EXIT WENT ON CHEVY SITE OTHER OWNER SEEM TO B'E HAVE THIS PROBLEM ANOTHER SUGGEST WAS THAT THE AIR FILTER MAYBE CAUSE PROBL"EM CHANGE THAT OUT GOT A CODE READER DONE ON IT NOTHING SEEM TO SHOW ANYTHING WRONG HOWEVER LIGHT STILL ON FOR BOTH PROBLEM WHAT CAN BE DONE TO FIX PROBLEM. *TR

ON FOUR COMPLETELY SEPARATE OCCASIONS MY POWER STEERING HAS GONE OUT. THERE IS NO WARNING. I WILL BE DRIVING AND HEAR A DING. I LOOK DOWN AT MY DASH TO SEE THE POWER STEERING LIGHT IS ON. WITHIN SECONDS THE POWER STEERING GOES COMPLETELY OUT. I HAVE TO PULL OVER TO RESTART THE CAR. ONCE I DO THIS ITS FINE FOR A BIT. TODAY IT HAPPENED TWICE DURING A 15 MINUTE DRIVE. IT'S SO INTERMITTENT I CAN GO DAYS WITHOUT AN INCIDENT. I TOOK IT IN TO FIX TODAY AND WAS TOLD THEY CAN'T FIX IT. I WAS REFERRED TO A DEALERSHIP WHO ALSO HAS NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON. CALLED A PARTS STORE AND THE PART CAN'T BE BOUGHT. THIS IS INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS AND NEEDS TO BE FIXED. MY FAMILY BEING PUT IN DANGER IS NOT OKAY. *TR

TWICE MY POWER STEERING WENT OUT ON AUGUST 13TH, 2013. BOTH TIMES, THE CONTROL PANEL FLASHED "POWER STEERING" AND MY POWER STEERING WENT OUT. THE FIRST TIME WAS IN A PARKING LOT BACKING OUT OF A PARKING SPACE. THE SECOND TIME WAS DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 45 MPH ON A CANYON ROAD. BOTH TIMES I PULLED OVER AND TURNED THE CAR OFF, THEN RESTARTED IT. AFTER A RESTART THE POWER STEERING CAME BACK. LUCKILY I WAS ABLE TO PULL OVER AND AVOID THE OTHER CARS THAT WERE AROUND, BUT IF THIS KEEPS OCCURRING IT COULD POTENTIALLY RESULT IN A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. FROM WHAT I HAVE READ ON THE INTERNET THIS ISSUE IS WIDESPREAD AND DUE TO A FAULTY POWER STEERING MOTOR WHICH HAS BEEN RECALLED FOR OTHER VEHICLES BUT NOT THE HHR. CHEVY NEEDS TO RECALL THE HHR POWER STEERING MOTOR FOR THE SAFETY OF HHR DRIVERS AND THE PEOPLE ON THE ROAD AROUND THEM. *TR

I SUDDENLY LOST POWER STEERING. I GOOGLED THE PROBLEM AND GM IS AWARE OF IT BUT HAS CHOSEN NOT TO RECALL THE CHEVY HHR. THEY ARE RECALLING THE CHEVY COBALT WHICH HAS THE SAME PROBLEM, OVERHEATING OF THE POWER STEERING MOTOR. *TR

WHILE TURNING ONTO A BUSY STREET NEAR MY HOME THE POWER STEERING SUDDENLY STOPPED WORKING AND THE STEERING WHEEL BECAME VERY HARD TO TURN. I NEARLY DROVE INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC BUT WAS ABLE TO GET OUT OF THE WAY JUST IN TIME. THE POWER STEERING CAME BACK ON THE NEXT FEW TIMES I DROVE THE CAR, BUT THEN SUBSEQUENTLY CONTINUED TO FAIL INTERMITTENTLY AROUND 75% OF THE TIMES I WOULD DRIVE. I LEARNED FROM REVIEWING OTHER SAFETY COMPLAINTS THAT THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM KNOWN TO GM, AND THAT THE POWER STEERING MOTOR WAS RECALLED IN THE CHEVY COBALT FOR THIS VERY FAILURE BUT NOT THE HHR, DESPITE BEING THE SAME FAULTY COMPONENT. I JUST PAID OVER $1000 FOR THE DEALER TO REPLACE THE POWER STEERING MOTOR AND STEERING COLUMN (ANOTHER KNOWN FAULTY PART TO GM). IT SEEMS RECKLESS TO ME THAT GM WOULD NOT RECALL A KNOWN BAD PART THAT CAN LEAD TO SAFETY HAZARDS. WHILE I WANT TO REMAIN A GM CUSTOMER, THIS EXPERIENCE IS MAKING ME RETHINK THAT DECISION WHEN IT COMES TIME TO REPLACE THIS CAR. *TR

I WAS JUST DRIVING ALONG IN A PARKING LOT AN D POWER STEERING LIGHT CAME ON AND THEN I HAD NO POWER STEERING, WHEN I SHUT THE CAR OFF AND TURNED BACK ON AGAIN IT WAS WORKING, ONCE I STARTED DRIVING AGAIN AT ABOUT 45MPH IT DID THE SAME THING AND HAS BEEN DOING IT EVERYDAY NOW, IT FIRST HAPPENED 2 WEEKS AGO AND BECAME MORE FREQUENT LAST FRIDAY. THIS CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS AS WITH NO POWER STEERING YOU CAN STILL STEER BUT IT TAKES A LOT OF STRENGTH, I CHECKED THE GUIDE AND IT SAID NO REGULAR MAINTENANCE REQUIRED. *TR