Steering wheel has excessive play while driving on city streets. Loud grinding sound with alarm. Almost unable to control. When stationary steering play excessive in both directions. Airbag light states airbag is off. Control arms replaced 2 week before incident. Warning light has been on since repairing of control arms. Dealing contacted more than twice regarding problems.
2010 Chevrolet Cobalt: grinding or squealing brakes
9 of the 574 complaints about the 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt describe grinding or squealing brakes.
- owner complaints
- 9
- of this car's complaints
- 2%
- typical mileage
- 67,000
- recalls
- 0
Is there a fix? 9 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below
Grinding or squealing brakes by model year
What owners say
Steering is not working especially a slower speeds. Very hard to turn at times and is making sort of grinding noise or clunking noise when attempting to steer the vehicle. This is very unsafe and am concerned that the steering may fail all together. Have seen many cobalt's recalled for steering defects. I looked up my VIN #, but it is not listed for recall. How can this issue be addressed so that my 2010 colbalt is included in the recall. This is serious. Thank you.
Everytime I start my car the svc light stays on all the time , my tires are always wobbly while slowing down and driving. My passenger air bag constantly stays off it's also a rattling inside my wheel and a squeak sometimes when im breaking. Im un sure whats going on my engine light comes on wen the car is half way turned on I don't know what that means but I just brought this car and im finding out problems my aux part on my car is messed up n150075
Gm dealer recalled car to fix electric power steering assist. Took car in and had part replaced but when car was driven home it had a grinding noise and was difficult to steer, which was not a problem before recall. Returned to dealer who replaced said motor again, with same results. Returned vehicle to dealer again on 12/30/2014 to do diagnostic on problem with steering, realer said there is no danger to drive vehicle but needs steering column which dealer refuses to replace unless I absorb the cost there was no problems with steering before dealer exchanged the electric power steering assist.
Steering wheel makes a lot squeaking noises and crunching sounds when I turn or am going over rough pavment.
I purchased the vehicle in february 2010 and I didn't start noticing problems till around summer but they were not that bad till september were the car started showing strange electrical and steering issue. I received the recall letter in october and had the power steering issue fixed but its still have issues were the vehicle will swerve back and forth in return I will have to keep my hands on the steering wheel to try to keep it from hitting other vehicles on the highway. Then the blower motor that blows the hot and cold air sometimes istatically revs up high and I have to turn of the heater. Also I have noticed that the brakes squeal and I only have 10,300 miles. I have also noticed that the needles on the gauges in the dash tend to twitch radically when I turn the vehicle off sometimes. Then at times the car when turned on will start to act as if it was to shut off and the lights would all dim and then it would stabilize. It has done that on the highway making steering difficult at times. The engine as well had made knocking noises to its been an off and on thing.
Front brakes squeal squall at low speeds when coming to a stop, rear brake pad life is very poor...only 13,000 miles on car and already looking at pads in 6,000-10,000 miles.
2010 chevrolet cobalt ss. Very loud brake squeal coming to a stop 20km and under (louder than a city bus). This has occurred consistently from 2500km. The car has been in the shop a dozen times, every time they machine the brakes and tell me the squeal is normal for high end brakes. I have driven porches, high end performance vehicles like sti's, 350z's, s2000's even high end bmw's, corvettes and ferraris, none of which have a "normal" squeal.
Rear brakes on a cobalt ss in 2010 squeak after 1,000 to 2,000 miles and start to put big gashes in the rear rotors.
Service bulletins that may apply
- This service bulletin provides information for tire pressure monitoring (TPM) system concerns.
- This informational bulletin provides information on installing the correct tires for vehicles with the...
- This informational bulletin provides technicians with a brake lathe calibration procedure.
- This informational bulletin explains a normal condition for what and how the drive line can clunk.
- Service brakes, hydraulic
- This informational bulletin provides information for Disc Brake Warranty Service and Procedures.
- Service brakes
- Chevrolet service campaign: front brake line contact; inspect brake line and adjust, if necessary. certain...
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt grinding brakes
Is grinding or squealing brakes a common problem on the 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt?
9 of 574 owner complaints about the 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt (2%) mention grinding or squealing brakes. The model year with the most reports is 2008.
Is there a recall or service bulletin for this on the 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt?
There are 0 recalls and 9 service bulletins for the same area of the car. Check them below with your VIN.
Other symptoms on the 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt
Power steering loss 87Fuel leak 65Fuel smell 34Stalling 32Loss of power 30Steering lock-up 26Check engine light 24Airbag light 22No deployment 20Engine failure 20Fuel pump 14Won't start 12Jerking 10Door locks 7Adaptive cruise 6Steering noise 6Transmission failure 5
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