2000 Chevrolet Cavalier: sudden loss of power

8 of the 315 complaints about the 2000 Chevrolet Cavalier describe sudden loss of power.

owner complaints: 8
of this car's complaints: 3%
typical mileage: 54,000
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 80 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

Sudden loss of power by model year

2005
1
2004
3
2003
34
2002
2
2001
5
2000
8
1999
2
1998
4
1997
6
1996
12
1995
9
1994
1
1992
1

What owners say

Filed Aug 23, 2015 · Engine · 97,000 miles · FL

I had the air conditioner replaced. The tech said the tensioner needed to be replaced. One week later I returned and had a new belt tensioner installed. About a month later the new air conditioner had premature failure. I had it repaired under warranty and also had a new drive belt installed during the repair. About one year later I began hearing a chatter when accelerating from stop position and had excessive vibration. I took to the shop and they said the belt tensioner was bad. This seems excessively short life span for a replacement part of good quality. Today the shop tried three different tensioners and still it was not correcting the issue. I even double checked the belt routing pattern to ensure it was correct. I dont understand what the problem is with the belt tensioners for this vehicle. All my prior ford vehicle never had this problem with their tensioners of same design. Please look into this problem as a belt that breaks or slides of a pulley due to a faulty tensioner can cause immediate loss of power steering resulting in hazardous and potentially fatal driving conditions and situations. Also the backlighting on the odometer does not work.the odometer registers milage driven but the backlight does not work at all.please look into and dont wait for someone to have to die before this issue become important.thanks.

Filed May 14, 2007 · Fuel system, Transmission · 76,828 miles · FL

Fuel pump on chevrolet cavalier z24 went out at 76,000 miles. It lost power and died all of a sudden in the middle of the highway. Luckily, no cars were around as it was almost midnight. Cost to repair was over $600, not including the towing. In doing some research I have found that numerous people had fuel pumps malfunction on their cavaliers, and on some cars newer and most with lower miles than on this car. Same story, just loses power and died in the middle of the road. This was extremely unsafe. Obviously this was a defect with the cavalier, yet they won't issue a recall. I have never heard from anyone that owned a cavalier that didn't have some sort of problem with it. Also, had problems with the shifter cable and power window motor on the driver's side. Extremely unhappy with the chevrolet.

Filed May 26, 2004 · Fuel system · 51,300 miles · FL

I was on my way hme from work on a very busy road all of sudden car just lost power car would not restart took to shop was told the fuel pump was bad and needed to $$700 repair for something that I feel should not needed to be done on such a new vehicle I only had 51000 miles on the vehicle I bought a new car for this reason to avoid major repairs as of this date the car has failed again with the same conditions as previous just stalled and wont restart and the warrenty has run out on that( 12,000 or 12 mth) so that wilkl be another cost to replace this pump in less than a years time. This is utterly ridiculous on a 2000 vehicle for this to happen and gm states not are problem things happen , yes things happen but not continuous on new vehicles and the same problem I think gm really needs to take a closer look at this for some type of defect this is very dangerous and very costly

Filed Jan 10, 2004 · Electrical, Steering · 54,000 miles · AZ

While drive on the city roads the 2000 cavalier tends to stall when slowing to a complete stop, slowing to turn, and when low speeds. The engine will completely shut down while electrical components such the radio are in tact. Also include loss of power steering and power brakes making it difficult to steer out of harms way with many accident near misses. Happends mostly when car has not been in use for a period of time then is started up for use. (e.g. Morning commutes).

Filed Jun 30, 2003 · Fuel system · 50 miles · TX

Stalling, hesitating, loss of power, decreasing of horse power.

Filed Jan 13, 2003 · Engine · TX

Consumer stated while driving at highway speed the engine shut down whic caused loss of power steering. Please any additional information.

Filed Jan 13, 2003 · Engine · TX

Consumer stated while driving at high speed, the engine shut down, which caused loss of power steering. Please provide any additional information.

Filed Mar 5, 2002 · Electrical, Transmission · CA

First failure was at 24,197 miles. The car began to lose power and would stall during driving. Dealer had the car for 21 days, and replaced the switch clusters, ignition switch, reprogrammed body control module, replaced PCM and found burnt 3-4 clutch. At 40,613 miles the engine lost power and stalled again (while on the freeway). This time the engine warning light did not activate, and we had no idea there was another engine problem. The dealer again replaced defective coil and iginition wires. The car is once again beginnig to idle differently, which is a precursor to it stalling. At each failure, we also smelled a burning odor just before the vehicle stalling.