Prior to the incident I experienced the service traction light would come on maybe a handful of times a month. Until the incident I had to actual issues and figured that my exhaust being as loud as it is caused something to set it off. *tr on february 8th the service traction light came on once again however I had to issues that day. It wasn't till the next day that as I was driving normal speeds about 35mph approaching a stop sign before I would enter the feeder road to enter the highway. The road I was on had a very slight curve to the left and the ground was completely dry/ all conditions were normal. Out of no where I felt my vehicle being forced hard to the left as if I was hydroplanning and had lost the ability to control the braking of my car. My vehicle crossed the next lane over and with absolutely no control what so ever I was forced over a curb and into a street sign. No one was injured as it was a minor accident however it came with a price. At this point there is estimated to be $6500.00 in damages to my vehicle due to this. No work has begun on my vehicle. I have understood that this is a problem being investigated on other chevrolet corvette models from 05 and up under investigation number ea09-002. I would like to better understand what has happened and be sure that my vehicle is safe as it was very frightening to have lost control in perfectly good driving conditions. Like I have earlier stated my vehicle has not started the repair process and I will be sure to inform chevy of my discovery so that this potentially life threatening issue becomes fixed.
2005 Chevrolet Corvette steering complaints
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My service active handling light came on 11/13/09.on 11/14/09 I was traveling across a bridge at 55 miles per hour when my brakes and steering locked up. I had no control of the vehicle. I eventually slid to a stop causing traffic behind me to swerve into the next lane. I could barely get the car off the road because the brakes would not release. This is a 2005 chevrolet corvette with 33,000 miles. I took the vehicle to the dealership and was told the steering sensor inside the steering column was bad and needed to be replaced and the wires needed to be checked and re tightened. This could have been more severe or even fatal if not for the time of day and the amount of traffic. I could not believe something so dangerous was not recalled. I am sure others have had this problem and crashed their cars and had no idea what happened, if not for my quick reactions or luck, I might have ran off the bridge and killed myself or injured someone else. That would be the first thing I checked on any 2005 corvette that had an unexplained crash where the driver simply lost control. I was not accelerating or doing anything out of the ordinary when my incident occurred. The repair cost me $612.00, costly for what appears to be an engineering flaw. I am not exaggerating when I say he vehicle was completely out of my control! This is a very serious problem that needs to be addressed. I don't believe that chevrolet or any dealership should profit from this life threatening defect.
When turning left or right in bad road surface, the steering wheel loses control, the active handling lights comes on, and the ABS do not work till the car is on smooth road condition. The car have been service for the above conditions in chevrolet dealer but the problem remains.
Loud grinding noise and severe vibration when turning steering wheel either at stop or slow speed with or without brakes applied. A few instances of momentary steering loss on turns (bends in road) at speeds approximately 30 MPH. Problem started at purchase in july 2005 and has increased in severity over the past 8 months. There is also a "snapping noise" under the center console when the brakes are applied that started 3/16/06. The car has been to the dealership on 6 occasions and I have filed a complaint with general motors customer assistance. Service ticket dated 2/9/06 states "normal characteristic of this vehicle, no repairs to be attempted". Service ticket dated 3/10/06 states "no parts available till 6/06, no work done at this time". The dealership told me this would not be normal in any car but they have been instructed by gm not to make any repairs. I researched the problem on the internet and came across the recall 05v455000 and contacted gm. Gm stated that because my VIN number is not within a certain range that my car in not included, however I feel my car regardless of the VIN number displays the same characteristics of the power steering hose issue.
On june 22, 2005 while driving at highway speed my '05 covette lost its serpentine belt causing the car to lose pwer steering, engine oil and coolent. With the loss or steering the car became hard to steer and manuver. This problem has been know by chevrolet that a specific bolt was not placed correctly during manufacturing and causes the loss of the serpentine belt. This was a scary event to lose steering at 60mph with a passenger during the ending of rush hour traffic on hwy114 at 6pm. The repair is taking place now involving a new diamond washer and proper torquing of the bolt. Possible engine damage may have occured and the reliability of the vehicle is now in question. In some occurances the problem has happened again. I don't want it to be me and have an accident.
Seven to eight thousand chevrolet corvettes built in late 2004 are in a batch being watched by gm because there have been dozens of instances of the crank shaft pulley belt backing out and allowing the pulley to loosen or fall off. When that happens the car looses power steering and the rest of the functions run off the belts. The belt and pulley can also cause other damage under the hood. Production nuber corvettes from over three thousand to over eleven thousand are in the group identified as problematic. Chevrolet has realease a technical service bulletin, tsb number (05-06-01-001a), but says it can not help buyers until after a failure. I own a corvette in that group, and I fear that I can't trust the car to perform safely. I belong to several corvette related internet forums, and I get reports of new failures every day. There are dozens of failures reported by members of just one forum. The failures have been occurring since november, 2004. Gm is obviously not going to fix this safety problem without the federal safety agency inquiry, and I'd like the federal safety agency to ask gm to get serious about protecting the lives of their purchasers. Spontaneous loss of steer assist and fluid loss is a safety issue - in my opinion. Will the federal safety agency look into this situation before someone dies, please?
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