2006 Chevrolet Cobalt: grinding or squealing brakes

Filed Mar 11, 2014 · Brakes, Electrical · MD · crash

1. Brakes wear uneven in the front. Rotors,pads,and calipers were replaced.difficulty with bleeding brakes.1 year later with 11,000 more miles on car the pad was worn and grinding rotor.replaced both front rotors,caliper again. 2 techs had an extremely hard time bleeding the brakes for the peddle to rise. Car stopped but peddle went to floor.they worked on bleeding the brakes for 2 hours.they repeated the procedure 6 times. Bleed every wheel and pumped brakes over and over again.could not get peddle up. This happened with the other brake job as well. Could not let my daughter drive the car. Took car home and the next day was on the way to another dealer when the brake peddle came up. 2. Daughter was in an accident before second brake job and hit a pick up truck in rear as stopping no one was injured and air bag did not deploy. 3. Have friend with 2005 cobalt where her brakes completely locked up. Had to get vehicle towed and brakes replaced.

Filed Nov 19, 2013 · Electrical, Steering · 122,000 miles · WI

After two hub failures, stabilizer link failures, ignition coil failure, rear defroster failure, power locks failure, and now the steering rack is making a grinding noise and causing premature wear to the front right tire. I believe there is a tsb on the steering rack. This should be a recall I won't ever by a gm again.

Filed Jan 22, 2012 · Transmission · FL

My 2006 chevy cobalt ss has a transmission/traction control issue. The traction control light will come on at random and when it does, my car with slam into the next gear. The problem used to be when I would accelerate with high rpms but now it happens all the time. Any time the tc light comes on I can hear something grinding under the hood and that's when I know I will have a serious problem. When I took it to chevy, they said they couldn't find anything wrong with the car but I am still having this problem! Gm needs to do some research on this problem!

Filed Jul 22, 2011 · Suspension · 100,000 miles · RI

Out of the blue my vehicle began to shimmy & shake. At first I thought it may be the wheel alignment. According to the dealershing my front arm bushing needs to be replaced. Now the car is squeaking when you turn the wheel to. Got a 2nd estimate: the bushing, swaybar link, & steering & suspension need to be replaced. What the heck? After I just had to have the ignition coil replaced. It burned out the 1st one I put in plus brand new spark plugs. This is ridiculous.

Filed Jan 10, 2011 · Steering · 75,000 miles · TX

Tl* the contact owns a 2006 chevrolet cobalt. The contact received notification of the federal safety agency campaign id number: 10v073000 (steering: electric power assist system) and took the vehicle to the dealer for repairs. After having the repairs performed, the vehicle began to shake violently when driving at various speeds. In addition, the engine would exhibit and unusually loud grinding noise. The check engine light was illuminated after the vehicle began the failure. The vehicle was inspected by the dealer yet he was unable to diagnose the failure. The vehicle was not further repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 75,000.

Filed Aug 2, 2010 · Fuel system · 2,000 miles · UT

Tl* the contact owns a 2006 chevrolet cobalt. The contact stated there was an overpowering gasoline odor in the interior cabin. When starting the vehicle, there was an abnormal squeak from the vehicle rear. The vehicle was taken to a local mechanic where the contact was informed that there was a crack in the fuel line. The vehicle was not repaired and there were no prior warnings of the failure. The failure mileage was 52,000 and the current mileage is 52,756. Updated 11/03/10. *lj the fuel pump module was replaced. Updated 11.04/10

Filed Mar 2, 2010 · Steering · 27,000 miles · PA

Tl*the contact owns a 2006 chevrolet cobalt. She stated that while driving 25 MPH she heard a grinding noise and the steering wheel was drifting from left to right. The vehicle was diagnosed by the dealer who stated that the links were broken near the suspension. The vehicle was repaired at the owners expense. The failure mileage was 27000 and the current mileage was 28000.

Filed Dec 5, 2008 · Engine · 20,500 miles · OH

Keys sticks in ignition often. Squeak sound from front of car, especially at slow speed. Took to dealer, unable to determine problem (or fix problem). Today, while driving on straight road at 45 MPH, car stalled suddenly for no reason. Check engine light came on and car stated "engine disabled". Still under warranty, will take to dealer tomorrow. Hopefully will not get the run-around again.

Filed Sep 3, 2007 · Electrical, Engine · 18,000 miles · TN

I have a 2006 chevy cobalt purchased used with 28000 miles on it. All my problems started about a month after I bought the car. The steering wheel started shaking violently when driving at 50 MPH and over so I took it in to a chevy dealer and they rotated and balanced the tires and that seemed to fix that problem. About 2 weeks I was driving home and I was sitting at a red light and the car just shut off. I restarted the car and every thing was fine on the dash board, no warning lights or messages in the driver information center. I started driving again and when I press on the gas there was this loud grinding noise and it felt like the car was not shifting gears properly. So I pulled over on the side of the road and turned the car off for about 10 minutes and restarted it and it drove fine. Now at this point im just thinking that there is a malfunction in the computer. I took the car to the dealer the next day and they scanned the computer and found no errors and everything was checking out fine. About 3 weeks later I was driving on the highway and I lost complete control of steering and the power steering message in the driver information center was displayed along with the check engine light. Unable to steer I had to stop in the middle of the highway and shut the car off. I waited about 20 minutes and restarted the car and the power steering warning message and check engine light had gone away and I gained steering control again. I once again took the car to the dealer and they could not find anything wrong with the car. Now some days when I start my car the power steering warning message and the check engine light come on and some days the car drives fine and its really starting to frustrate me. In addition to the steering problem I am unable to remove my key form the ignition. To this day none of my problems have been resolved.

Filed Aug 27, 2007 · Steering · 14,210 miles · WV

This is in documentation of my 2006 chevy cobalt. Replaced the steering column, replaced steering shaft, rubbing and grinding, knocking on steering column and floor pan area, when coming to a stop car RPM's will drop so low that the car will almost die, speakers have a rattle like they are going to quit working, lost power assist while in a turn once documented has now happened twice, when using turn signal with high beams on lights will shut off,passenger side bumper was pulled away from headlamp.

Filed Feb 28, 2006 · Acceleration · 4,250 miles · MI

Dt*: the contact stated while driving 75 MPH the cruise control would not deactivate. To deactivate the cruise control the brakes were applied at least 4 times each time harder than the time before in combination with turning the cruise control off. When it deactivated there was a loud grinding noise that was heard. Within the next 20 minutes of driving the cruise control activated without being turned on, this occurred on 2 occasions. It was deactivated in the same manor as stated before. The vehicle was taken to dealer for inspection. The dealer test drove the vehicle however the problem could not be duplicated therefore no repairs were made.