Tl* the contact owns a 2005 chevrolet impala. The contact noticed that the anti-theft security system warning light was illuminated and it became difficult to move the gear shifter from park. It took the contact between 10-15 minutes to restart the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where they repaired the ignition switch. The manufacturer was notified and stated that the vehicle was not included in a recall. The failure mileage was 124,628. Updated 8/28/14*cn updated 09/8/2014
2005 Chevrolet Impala electrical complaints
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The gas gauge works off and on and does read correctly from over full to not at all and every place inbetween. The speedometer reads every where from correctly to 130 MPH when you are driving at 50 MPH and sometimes goes all the way around to it hits the stop.other times the speed odometer says you are moving at 40 MPH when you are stopped.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 chevrolet impala. The contact stated that while driving at night, he noticed that the instrument panel failed to illuminate. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer for diagnostic testing. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 180,000 and current mileage was 200,000. Updated 7/22/14*cn the consumer stated there was an issue with the ABS and ignition. Updated 07/29/14
I've heard a lot about the recalls regarding several chevy vehicles in regards to the ignition and I was wondering why impalas are not on the list. You can look at numerous web forms with people having trouble starting their impala's like my self. You can also read that there is really no explanation or fix to the problem. The problem in general is a good majority of the time older chevy impala's have a hard time starting or just won't start for a good 15 minutes. From the many impala owners I talk to a lot of them are wondering if this was the start of the issue with the recalled chevy vehicles. I have yet to experience any other described issue related to the recall but again I am worried if this is a sign of the issues or slightly related.
Driving on grande blvd tyler tx, on my way to work, headlights turned off completely, turned the high beams on and the headlights came back on.
Vehicle shut off while driving , this has occurred twice, able to direct vehicle to side of the road safely. At time had multiple keys and items hanging from keychain. Now drive with just key alone in ignition has not occurred since.
I was driving at approximately 40 MPH on a straight roadway with brights on when the headlights went out. This occurred in the early morning while it was still dark out. The parking lights remained on. Pulling the headlight switch on the left side of dash to the "manual on" position did not help. I turned on the fog lights and returned home using the fog lights only. Upon arriving home, I was able to get the headlights to work again by switching to high beam and back. This has been an intermittent problem for this vehicle in the past month. The multifunction switch felt like it was fully engaged and gave an audible click when pulled. I have ordered a replacement multifunction switch to repair this.
I noticed a strange smell like melting plastic coming from my passenger side dashboard under the glove compartment. Took it straight to the dealer. They discovered my back window defrost shorted out the fuse box on the passenger side. Completely melted it and ruined the box. If I had waited any longer it probably would have started a fire.
Speedometer stopped working properly. Would register zero or off the scale. Never correct. With so many complaints you would think that something would be done as this is a necessary instrument but obviously gm doesn't care and ntsb is too busy until someone is killed.
While driving on the interstate with the cruise set to 65 MPH, the needle on the speedometer started to slowly show a decrease in speed eventhough the actual speed of the car did not change. Over the next 50 miles the speedometer continued to decrease until it was below 0 although the cars speed stayed a 65mph. Since then similar problems appeared with the RPM gauge where the needle shows it redlining even though the car is idling.
After shopping, my wife started the car and the fuel gauge needle went far to the right well beyond the full mark. At that time, there was approximately 1/2 tank of gas. We noted the mileage from the odometer and have used that as a basis on when to fill the car. We checked with a garage and they showed us a notification that had come from chevrolet that this happened frequently with 2005 chevy impalas. They said it is probably the dashboard cluster or the sensor from the fuel tank. Either repair would cost over $500.00. I checked online and noticed that chevy SUV's from that era were fixed for free if they had less than 120,000 miles. I also noted a large number of complaints from 2005 chevy impala drivers about the lack of response from chevrolet. If that is the case and their is no compensation for a mistake made by the manufacturer, then this will be the last chevy product I or my family will ever buy.
During a snow storm, traveling with traffic at a safe speed. I was cut off by another vehicle because my horn failed. I was not able to alert the other driver that it was not safe to merge into my lane. Resulting in my car entering the ditch to avoid a multi-car accident. I have researched 2005 chevy impala horn failure, and I have found many have burned out. My mechanic states he believes it is a known issue with chevrolet due to the placement of the horn itself, the horn is in an unprotected area, it can and will "burn" out due to rain water, snow, etc. This is a safety issue. As important as any other. The cost to replace the horn is over $200.00 with labor because of the additional labor to get to the horn.
This has happened a few times now with both the speedometer and temperature gauge. I start the car and start driving and happen to look down and either the speedometer or the temperature gauge will be giving a false high reading. Seeing as the car had just started it could not possibly be overheating. I find if I shut the car off and cycle the key from off to on without starting engine I can get it to drop back to where it should be. I hear this is a very common problem and it will fail eventually. I drive highways mostly and not knowing my correct speed when trying to enter and merge with traffic is very dangerous.
I was driving my car at 45mph and suddenly my speedometer and instrument panel went crazy. It said I was going 120mph. Furthermore, my temperature gauge was inaccurate causing my car to overheat. This caused the head gaskets to blow and other parts had to be replaced. I have spent over $1,900.00 fixing this issue. I was told the instrument panel cluster is not working properly and needs to be replaced which is over $2,000.00. Chevrolet knows about this problem yet chooses to sit on the sidelines as thousands of people are having the same issue. Action needs to be taken with chevrolet to resolve these issues. Thank you
Speedometer getting stuck & not registering properly. Driver is not able to tell what speed the car is traveling at. This could result in traffic infractions for an otherwise very good driving record & could be a safety hazard. Chevrolet really needs to step up & fix this issue as research has shown this is a common problem with this make, model, & year. A family member also has the same car but the base model & his gas gauge suddenly stopped working about a year ago.
Noticed a smell and started seeing smoke coming out of the glove compartment. Turned off car and checked to find out the blower motor, resister and harness melted.
Car has just rolled over to a little over 165,,000 miles and when we bought it at the time we didn't think anything of it and then turns out a year after we bought the car it started smelling like gas big time but we didn't know where it was coming from then when I went to put the car in park the check engine light came on so im like thinking now what and so we take it to a garage and they say oh your entire exhaust system is rusted out and that there's a dollar size hole near the front of the exhaust but we didn't get it fixed becuz we couldn't at the time so they just told me to drive it as is and I have been but I've been noticing that it sounds louder and louder almost like how a car does not have an exhaust system and I really don't feel safe becuz its loud and it smells like gas on the inside and im afraid of it catching on fire one of these days and as for the resistor blower module for the A/C and heater we already had to replace that three times becuz it kept going out and I really don't want to have the car catch on fire becuz the blower motor resistor module isn't working properly and I don't have any money to keep fixing things on my car.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 chevrolet impala. The contact stated after adding gasoline to the vehicle, the fuel gauge displayed an inaccurate reading. The speed odometer remained at zero regardless upon the speed the vehicle was driven. In addition, the temperature gauge would fluctuate. The failure recurred whenever the vehicle was in operation. The manufacturer was not notified of the defect. The approximate failure mileage was 160,000.
It started with the tachometer not reading right, then it started working, then stopped, now the speedometer and tachometer is not working right, if I turn off the car or be at a non-moving state it will read anywhere from 10-20mph, if I am driving it will read or not at all, nothing is accurate...good grief my car has under 41000 miles on it. It seems like to me after looking at the extensive complaints on this problem with the impalas, chevrolet would issue a recall and fix this ridiculous issue. It certainly makes me not want to buy another chevrolet again! I would think they would want to have more of their cars on the road than foreign and realize the american people are more informed and do research before buying large purchases such as a car, and we base our decisions on what we hear and read on companies customer satisfaction, and most importantly the safety issues!
My impala is having traction control and ABS issues making it harder to feel safe on the road. Abs starts working for no reason when stopping lightly and the traction control also starts working when taking off in normal conditions making the car hesitant.
Speedometer and temperature on the instrument cluster read eradicate at all speeds. When I went to a mechanic he said he was changing 3 to 5 of these a week. Just think hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of vehicles on the road with no clue as to how fast they are going. It's not just this make and model gm has a lot of them. There are many businesses that are rebuilding these instrument clusters because of the failures. Check it out on the internet. When is gm going to be made to correct there faulty products?
From stop I would step on the gas, and the car would slam into gear. I have had to have the electrical cluster replaced $300, and the fuel control replaced (car always smelt like gas) now they think this slam is the tcc valve in the transmission which is anywhere from $600-$900. Also the steering knuckle makes a loud noise on sharp turns. Whats next? Are any of these issues recalls?
Speedometer was first off by 5 miles then worked, few months later you would be driving 30 and it would say 60 then it would work fine at random last time it actually spun around and the pointer was all the way down to the gear information. After that the heat gage would read at max temp but the temperature was fine and then it to stopped working. Replaced the cluster for around $350.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 chevrolet impala. The contact stated that the instrument panel cluster was inoperable and would fail mostly when driving during evening hours. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, who performed a diagnostic test but to no avail. The dealer also could not duplicate the failure. The manufacturer was notified and advised the contact to take the vehicle back to the dealer for another diagnostic test. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 59,600.
2005 chevrolet impala. Consumer writes in regards to lack of recall on vehicle with bad sensor clusters. *smd the consumer stated the speedometer was inoperative, due to a bad sensor cluster.
Speedometer does not work most of the time. Car will shut down without warning going down road. The check engine light does not come on. After pulling over it will start back up. Have been placed on diagnostics machine and no codes are triggered. We have replaced fuel filter. Had a tune up done. Nothing is working and mechanics cant figure out what is wrong. Very dangerous. Has happened many times. Last time going down mountain on a curve with no where to pull over. Luckily no traffic at the time.
I am the original owner of a 68k miles 2005 chevy impala. The car was parked at my place of employment for the 8 hrs. My work hours ended and I started the car to proceed home. I pressed the sunroof switch to make it automatically open. It did not open. Smoke started to fill the passenger compartment and I noticed a flicker coming from the headliner. It was a flame. I tapped the headliner to make it go out and exited the car and removed my keys from the ignition upon exiting.
Speedometer wasn't registering any speed at all when car was movin approximately 50 MPH. Next day, speedometer was reading approximately 30mph faster than probably traveling (90-100mph) on city streets. Dealer estimates about $275 for parts, and $190 for labor to fix instrumentation panel.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 chevrolet impala ls. The contact stated that while driving approximately 30 MPH, the speedometer fluctuated continuously. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 107,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 chevrolet impala. The contact stated that upon starting the vehicle, the gauges on the instrument panel did not display their proper readings. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The dealer did not perform a diagnosis. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 92,000 and the current mileage was 120,000. The VIN was not available.
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