2012 Chevrolet Captiva Sport: sudden loss of power

Filed Apr 14, 2023 · Electrical · OR

The battery cables are faulty and overheat causing the car to shut off and lock key in the ignition with complete loss of power this is happening to nearly every Chevy captiva and is a wide spread issue this is also a serious fire hazard as the cables over heating is enough to boil water car shuts off and locks key in ignition without warning

Filed Sep 23, 2019 · Acceleration, Driver assistance · 124,000 miles · KY · crash

Loss of power during steering - steering not stable - stall of engine when turning a curve. Caused minor vehicle accident on interstate

Filed Aug 26, 2018 · Electrical, Engine · 90,000 miles · LA

Kills on highway and in town, check engine light comes on then off in about 15-30 minutes, key gets stuck in ignition when it do kills, no indicator, radio switches like it's going crazy sometimes for days and weeks, I've brought 3 batteries since march 10,2017 when I started financing this vehicle, replaced battery cables and problem still reoccurring, alternator replaced and now giving trouble again, something is making the pressure in my tires extremely low, lights dim, dashboard lights flickering, inside lights comes on sometimes, sometimes everything shuts down on this vehicle, when stationary vehicle idles and hesitant, when in motion vehicle idiles, hesitant, misses, and kills. On the highway the vehicle idles, missed, shaky, hesitant , and kills with no indication very dangerous afraid my kids and I will lose our life in this vehicle!!! When turning vehicle is hesitant, sometimes lose power, and misses. Sometimes the vehicle will not go pass 45 MPH, when taking off vehicle idles so high and loud, radio displays device not supported when nothing is plugged up, radio time always resets when the vehicle looses power, popping sound under the hood when the key is stuck in ignition when vehicle looses all power, this vehicle is not dependable and very dangerous!!! All these defects are reoccurring issues and problems. This is scary, I would've never financed this vehicle, never, however I don't understand how my dealer ship allowed this piece of crap at their yard and allowed me to get this vehicle, I've spent my entire savings repairing things on this vehicle only for it reoccur in no time, I need a dependable vehicle is all I'm asking, if I don't work my family won't eat, then we'll end up homeless please help!!! Recall this dangerous vehicle and/or make it right!!!

Filed Aug 16, 2017 · Electrical · 73,000 miles · IN

Intermittently the radio first cuts off, then panel lights come on (traction control, check engine lights) turn signal lights work, but no sound. You lose power to car and cannot even take the key out of the ignition. After some time, you can finally get the key out. Sometimes it's minutes, sometimes it's hours. This started happening a few weeks ago, happening few times a week. Now, it's happening daily, even few times a day. We found a chevy forum online and shockingly this is happening to 2012 captiva's. Why is this not a recall? This can be fatal to lose power to the car if we are on the highway and lose function of the vehicle

Filed Aug 25, 2015 · Electrical · 60,500 miles · NC

On wednesday, july 29, 2015 while driving home from work around 5:30 pm my charging system signal came on and my AC stopped working. I figured the charging system signal was an indication that my AC had broken and I resolved to schedule an appointment for repair. Ten (10) minutes after the charging system signal came on multiple signal lights on my dashboard started flashing and immediately my car lost all power and started decelerating. This occurred while I was driving seventy (70) miles per hour on the freeway during rush hour traffic. I was also in the far left lane of a four lane highway. By the grace of god I was able to steer my car to a ramp without being colliding with another car. After exiting the freeway I narrowly avoided colliding with a car that was in front of me and I swerved just barely avoiding rolling into a ditch. My car came to a halt along the side of an off-ramp where my it sat for nearly two (2) hours, just barely out of the reach of exiting trucks and cars, as I waited for aaa. I had my car towed to a hendrick chevrolet dealership where the mechanic determined that my alternator was broken and needed to be replaced. The fee was nine hundred fourteen dollars and ninety nine cents ($914.99). I asked the chevrolet dealership why this happened and if I could have done anything to prevent it. He told me that there was no way that a dealership could have detected that the alternator was going bad and that further commented that he was surprised to see that the alternator had gone bad when my car at its low mileage.