2011 Chevrolet Cruze: grinding or squealing brakes

Filed Nov 3, 2025 · Electrical, Engine · IN

When I start my vehicle and go over a certain speed it show service abs system it also makes a grinding sound when breaking before that speed is hit it also has a wobbleing steering wheel when breaking at high speeds also when accelerating it will sometimes show engine power reduced after presing the gas pedal

Filed May 2, 2018 · Fuel system · 67,000 miles · IN

2011 chevy cruze waterpump recall- pace chevrolet huntington, indiana dealership. My car overheated after the second visit trying to correct the poor recall repair. Please see below:. I took my 2011 chevy cruze in for a waterpump recall. They completed the job in 1/2 of the normal time as quoted online. As soon as I pulled out of the garage it sounded like a waterfall under my dash! I pulled right back in. The tech lifted up my hood and said oh it was just burping the system and closed it. Second visit: 2 1/2 weeks later- I brought it back in. They admitted that air bubbles had become trapped in parts of my engine and they "bled" the system. Within 5 days my coolant was empty!! Third visit: they called me and said that I had broken the coolant pressure release hose connector from my master mechanic husband butting some wires weeks before. How did I go two and a half weeks with it being completely full and coincidently 5 days after my second visit my coolants out and empty??? Advised that gm will not pay for this and either will they. So I'll have to pay $185 for a $30.00 part and 5 minutes of their time to swap it out. My husband's a mechanic, I would never go through all this trouble for a $30 hose connector. There was no accountability and I am so disgusted with them trying to blame me. Believe me, if it was me I would have no issues repairing it rather than to be disrespected like that. I also had squeaking coming from my belt, they neglected to look at that and didn't wipe up all the coolant under my waterpump until the third time. These are all things that are 100% expected of a dealership the first time in, especially for a manufacturers defect. I couldn't believe I had to waste all that time just for them to do their job and then try and stick me with a cheap part that they broke. Once a car overheats the pipes never return to normal.

Filed Mar 30, 2018 · Acceleration, Fuel system · 111,500 miles · FL

Car does not properly accelerate, so much so that I need to use the hazard lights to avoid being hit by the car behind me when accelerating after stopping at a stop sign or red light. This is not safe. I have small children. I drove 40+ miles (city miles) and had no issues getting there, but then when I attempted to turn the car on again to return home, the temperature gauge showed the engine go from cold to hot very quickly, displayed the message "engine hot A/C off" and it started making a loud squealing noise. At this point I swerved the car off the road because my daughter and I feared for our safety and thought it was going to explode. I put the car in park, we both opened our doors and took off running from the car until we reached a safe distance. I had to have it towed 40+ miles to my home. The mechanic checked the vehicle again and found that the radiator had cracked and that the water pump needed to be replaced. He replaced the radiator and also the water pump, and ensured the proper amounts of all fluids. Also, whenever I attempt to drive on the highway, the front end of the car gets very hot and the "transmission hot idle engine" message comes on and the AC, which was working fine, does not work now. Still, the mechanic could find nothing wrong with the transmission! The heat from the engine and transmission come straight through the front of the vehicle, which with no AC gets super hot in addition to the 80+ degree weather in central florida (and it's not even summer yet!). Every time I have to have tried to refuel the car within the past 2 weeks of me having purchased it, the engine stalls and stalls and stalls. It takes 10-15 tries to turn the car back on every time I refuel. In addition to this, once you actually get the car back on the car jerks when put in drive. I have to keep my foot on the gas or the car will shut back off.

Filed Jun 3, 2015 · 7,000 miles · PA

After buying my brand new 2011 chevrolet cruse ls stick shift model on august 10, 2011, some time passed. Then, I noticed a minor problem. And I am stressing minor, because this car now has 40 thousand miles on it and is still a great car, but still has the exact same issue as follows: when I turn the key the first time to try to start the vehicle, it makes a noise but the engine does not start. Then, always, on the second try it fires right up! I notice this more often when the car has been driven, and is still warm(engine). Now with 40 thousand miles on the vehicle, it is a little easing to my mind knowing that this may not progress into something of a bigger problem. At least I hope not. Another couple of problems I must note is as follows, but have not proven to be of any concern whatsoever: at times there is a grinding noise coming from, perhaps the engine??) when the car is idle, and in neutral, at say, a red light or at a drive through window. Does not occur all the time, but a lot of the time. Thirdly, the key broke off when I tried to pull my keys out of the ignition one time. The dealer was very supportive on this issue and fixed my keys promptly and effectively. However, I have mentioned the starting(minor as it seems) issue to my dealer while the vehicle was still under warranty. They, as I likely expected, told me there were no codes or anything unusual they could find that may lead to this issue.thus far I rate my cruze a solid 9 out of 10! I enjoy driving my vehicle and it gets great gas mileage and drives more like a top of the line vehicle. I always feel safe when driving it. Chevy did a nice job with its cruze. (interior and exterior). I love the power from the 1.8 4. The stick shift nicely shifts and provides the car with more power. I am glad I don't have the automatic. Hope I assisted you with anything that may be able to be addressed. Thank you.

Filed Apr 14, 2015 · Steering · 23,000 miles · OH

A squeak has developed in the steering column. Although gm has received complaints about this, they have done nothing to issue any recalls. There are tso's on this since other owners have complained but they do nothing. No car with 23,000 miles should have bad bushings or other problems with steering unless there are defects.

Filed Jan 17, 2013 · Acceleration, Brakes · 16,000 miles · TN

There is knocking noise in the rear of the vehicle. A letter from chevy states that they know there is a problem but they don't know how to fix it. #pic5726 the car has been in the shop 4 times for this starting at about 16,000 miles. I have only had the car for 1.5 months. Taking the car back to shop on 1/17/2013 for the heater and a grinding noise when pushing the gas pedal down.

Filed Feb 16, 2012 · Engine, Transmission · 900 miles · AZ

The vehicle experiences a severe delay in throttle and transmission response, to the point of endangerment. When driving at 60-65mph and commanding passing power, the vehicle normally will bog down as the pedal is depressed, then disengage the gear, wait up to 3 seconds, rev up 500-1,000rpm and then engage the gear and begin moving forward (at which point it is within a few hundred RPM of redline and bounces off of the fuel cutoff.... While in drive, not manual mode). The transmission also shifts harshly up and down randomly. Upon a cold start, the vehicle nearly stalls when coming out of a parking garage with an incline, then proceeds to idle at 1,800rpm and push the vehicle forward with nearly enough thrust to cause a collision if the brake pedal is not stood on. The vehicle has almost stalled on me while driving on flat ground, a handful of times (sometimes when I turn on the rear defroster, sometimes just coming to a stop). Additionally, there is a pulsating that can be felt throughout the car (most notably through the brake pedal) and a grinding noise coming from the engine bay. The vehicle has been brought in to power chevrolet in mesa, arizona where these concerns were brought up, including the concern for safety, at which point the ECM and TCM were reset to default values (which made the transmission even more horrible, due to deleting the adaptive values). I was spoken to like a child and given a printout explaining how an automatic transmission and auto-stop feature worked and told that the pulsating (which is widely acknowledged as a bad AC compressor part for this vehicle and was mentioned to the dealer when the car was brought in) and other issues were non-existent. I guess that I will have to wait for these parts to fail, hoping and praying that it doesn't kill me or my passengers in the process, in order to get these issues addressed.