2016 Chevrolet Colorado: hesitation when accelerating

Filed Dec 13, 2024 · Transmission · 142,000 miles · MO

The contact owns a 2016 Chevrolet Colorado. The contact stated that while driving and coming to a complete stop, the vehicle jerked while shifting gear. Additionally, while driving at slow speeds, the transmission was slipping, and the vehicle hesitated while shifting into gear. No warning light was illuminated. The contact stated that the torque converter and other unknown transmission parts had previously been replaced, but the failure recurred. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired by an independent mechanic or the dealer. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 142,000.

Filed Oct 6, 2022 · Transmission · FL

The transmission sucks. It’s jerky, rough, and random. Downshifting from 5th to 4th and 2nd to 1st is rough. Stopping the vehicle can be a pain sometimes because it’s like the truck doesn’t want to stop. Acceleration is very poor, I shouldn’t have to go pedal to floor to accelerate 5+mph while at highway speeds. It shudders, chuggles, and creates a weird deep droning noise when getting up too speed While driving, the engine picks and chooses when to speed up. I press the gas peddle down and have to wait a few seconds before the vehicle responds. I have noticed the vehicle making sounds like it is sputtering almost to the point to seizing all together. Slow and go driving 20-40mph after coasting and trying to accelerate again the transmission bucks, hesitates trying to find a lower gear. It can’t decide which gear to go into and just sputters and chugs until I push the accelerator 1/2 way down or more and it the finds its gear and rockets off. This type of driving is not safe at all. This happens all the time. This is a known gm issue with Colorado/Canyons and GM changed transmissions following years and no support for 2015-16. It sucks at maintaining speeds; even with cruise control. I go up the slightest, and I mean like a 2% grade incline it loses its speed by 2-5 mph. And with cruise control it’ll down shift to get back to the set speed but I go nowhere. Then it’ll downshift again to a lower gear and climbs even higher in RPMs to get up to speed and then cruise control will shut off and I’ll have to manually accelerate.

Filed Sep 17, 2019 · Transmission · 23,000 miles · CA

When driving in stop and go traffic, and through city and residential areas, the transmission seems to struggle finding the correct gear. The transmission hesitates and does not shift as smoothly as it should, and sometimes shifts hard upon reacceleration, or sudden braking. The transmission also struggles to find the correct gear while highway driving (70-75 MPH) with constant grade changes, and hills. (interstate 5 from los angeles to bakersfield ca. ) when starting the vehicle and placing it in reverse to back up, the transmission shutters slightly before engaging properly. This usually happens on a slight grade, as my street and driveway moderately sloped. I took the truck at the dealer for and unrelated issue, and ask them to check it. They said it was "normal". I have read about similar complaints on several forums, and its seems to be a very common complaint. This transmission seems to be junk! The time frame for this complaint is from 2/1/2019 (22,000 miles) to present. Others have complained with as little as 4,000 miles.

Filed Oct 26, 2018 · Engine, Fuel system · 10,000 miles · SC

2016 chevy colorado with less then 10,000 miles. At low rpms on any incline truck will buck, sputter, and hesitate rather than automatically shift into lower gear. In city traffic, after slowing to make a turn then accelerating, truck will buck and sputter and drive train will make a hammer sound after engaging . I took it to dealer who said he could not duplicate problem, although this is a known problem.

Filed Aug 7, 2018 · Electrical, Transmission · 35,000 miles · GA

Tl* the contact owns a 2016 chevrolet colorado. The contact stated that a loud abnormal noise was heard when shifting into park or reverse, and the vehicle hesitated before shifting into gear. While driving 45 MPH, the vehicle lost power without warning. Also, when the vehicle was engaged in park, the key was unable to be removed from the ignition. The vehicle was taken to bellamy strickland chevrolet buick gmc (145 industrial blvd, mcdonough, ga 30253, 770‑954‑3000), but the cause of the failures could not be determined. The manufacturer was not notified of the failures. The failure mileage was approximately 35,000.

Filed Nov 14, 2017 · Transmission · 10,000 miles · GA

Transmission hesitation: vehicle doesn't accelerate when its supposed to. When going from a normal rate of speed to slowing down to make a turn, doesn't downshift properly, therefore when you make the turn and accelerate again it hesitates (nearly stalling) jerks and skips. Have had many close calls because of this. Nearly being rear ended on several of those occasions. Have tried contacting gm about the problem and got nowhere. Have been put on a waiting list at the dealership with no indication of when this will be fixed. It has even got to the point where my fuel economy has seriously diminished.

Filed Jun 7, 2017 · Acceleration, Engine · 100 miles · FL

Tl* the contact owns a 2016 chevrolet colorado. While driving various speeds, the vehicle suddenly hesitated when attempting to accelerate. The vehicle was taken to the dealer (ferman chevrolet of tarbon springs) on several occasions, but the failure could not be duplicated. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 100. Updated 08/03/07*lj

Filed May 22, 2017 · Transmission · 100 miles · GA

Noticed immediately after purchase with 18 miles. Noticed at slower speeds under 45 MPH the truck would up-shift to a higher gear when letting off the accelerator. Upon depressing the accelerator again the truck would hesitate, jerk,ping, or just plain not accelerate until excessive pressure was placed on the accelerator. At this point it would down-shift hard a couple of gears and cause unsafe acceleration in high traffic scenarios.

Filed Mar 3, 2017 · Transmission · 4 miles · NC

Chevy 2016 colorado z71 v6 with a 6 speed automatic: the transmission does not shift under light acceleration or when under load going up a hill. The truck hesitates seems to miss and doesn't know what to do to get it so accelerate! It also has this issue when lifting my foot on the gas when rolling through a corner and then hitting the accelerator. Then I have to push the accelerator hard to make the transmission up shift 2 gears to make the truck accelerate! This is frustrating and dangerous as it could cause being hit from behind when the truck does not accelerate as it should. I took my truck back to the dealership three times and they said 'there are no codes, there seems to be nothing wrong the computer doesn't know whether to stay in that gear or up shift 1 gear or 2. All you have to do is to push down harder on the accelerator and learn to drive with a smart transmission.' my reply was 'I am not part of the vehicle sensor system and I should not have to learn how to drive to a poor shifting situation especially when I am paying this much for a new vehicle.' gm should be forced to fix this very common problem before something serious happens as a result of this!

Filed Feb 27, 2017 · Transmission · 14,000 miles · PA

Low to moderate speed gear shift hesitation, transmission not smoothly shifting,. Feels like a bad miss. Electronics and transmission/engine not in synch or synching. Hesitation, lack of responsiveness can be sever at times. Reboot of ECM helped, but issue has returned worse than ever. This has been a problem since day one of ownership. Hill decent control activates at al speeds including high end hiway speeds. 40, 50, 60, 70+ MPH engagement - tap the brake and it actives. Engine RPM's go through the roof. Disabling the control wit the button does not deactivate. Dealership has not and does not offer any solution. Sever loss of control of vehicle could occur in inclement weather or other conditions. Also, fast slow down with no warning to other drivers in the vicinity. Engine RPM's as high as 5k in my truck in mountainous pennsylvania december 2016.

Filed Dec 9, 2016 · Transmission · 50 miles · TX

In motion, when driving speed limit and then you let off accelerator to slow down and then you press gas again it hesitates and does not want to accelerate. I took to dealership and they said they fixed by programming something in computer and it ran fine for 3 days and started doing same thing again. And also, when you accelerate and it will not respond you give it a lot of gas and it makes rpms go to like 5000, but the RPM do not match the speed, its very strange. I see other complaints about the same thing on forums.

Filed Nov 30, 2016 · Transmission · 17,555 miles · WI

Transmission down shift slow to respond. Feels like it is out of gear, or like a engine hesitation, steeping down on accelerator hard makes it shift but the shift is hard. Concerned about this happening on ice causing a possible spin out.