The service stabilitrak warning comes across the dash and the powers motor down to half power. This has happened three times now the first time I was on the highway going 70 and was lucky to avoid an accident with my children in the vehicle. Had the motor replaced because the mechanic sau it was something with the timing. Now it is happening again, this time I was in town luckily on a street that wasnt too busy. This is not only becoming costly to repair but extremely unsafe when it powers down to half power and you can not get above 20mph. This is supposed to be a family vehicle there are children riding in these cars.
2012 Chevrolet Traverse driver assistance complaints
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I was driving at about 50mph the check traction control lights came on the check stabilitrack came on then it said traction control on then off my vehicle lost power and I couldnt steer. Luckily no cars were coming on the dark winding road I was on as I was stuck no lights or anything.
Receiving 'service stabilitrak' 'service traction control' 'traction control off' messages
While driving ABS light,traction control light,and service stabitrack came brakes started acting funny and would not accelerate puttered and finally settled out shut off at house and the truck started up and did the same thing
My husband and I went to the store with our two kids just to grab some groceries. We live less than 5 miles from the grocery store. On our way home the car started shaking while idling and acted like it was going to stall out on us. We were in the middle of the intersection when the car decided to start sputtering, shaking violently and then shut off. Thankfully enough we were able to pull into a parking lot to try and figure out what happened. After multiple attempts the car finally started back up. We were not able to go above 20 MPH. We found out that the fuel pump went out so we spent the $300 to replace that. Once that was replaced we thought we were in the clear. About two days later the same thing happened again except I was on the expressway doing about 70-80 MPH. Same thing, was able to start it up again after multiple attempts, couldn't go above 40 MPH this time. About two months ago we started having p0017, p0018, p0019 trouble codes pop up. We tried to replace the sensors and they were still popping up. We cleared them, about 5-10 minutes later they would pop back up again. Thursday the car was working fine. It was running great, no shaking, wasn't acting like it was going to stall out. The engine light was still on but we are now to the point that there is some sort of electrical issue going on. This is our only vehicle, and we have two kids and jobs to get to. We are tired of putting money into this trying to figure out what's wrong with it. My parents owned this car before we did. We are the second owners. I find it pretty convenient that everything starts to go downhill after warranty dates are up or after you hit a certain mileage. And with the strike that just happened, gm isn't wanting to take any responsibility for the fear of losing money yet again. Issue a recall or you will end up with lawsuits. Either way you will lose money. Save some lives.
For no reason the service stabiltrak light comes on. The gages start going on their own. The vehicle goes into limp mode while driving. It has happened on highways, city roads. I have taken it to a dealership "who said I cant make it reciprocate so I just reprogrammed the TCM, and if that doesnt work I will recommend anew TCM." in short they have no idea. I have taken it to an independent mechanic who was able to trouble shoot it back to the fuel control system module vs comm module. However. I think there is more to it than that. Chevy needs to fix this issue it's a very common issue on traverse forums. Nhsta please do something about this issue someone is going to die.
I am on my 3rd engine since purchasing this vehicle. Since day 1 I have had issues with the traction control and stabilitrac. Randomly service lights come on for those as well as reduced engine power while driving. The engine has locked up on me twice. I have had numerous electrical issues with the vehicle. When the car idles or I'm stopped at a light my service lights come on. My transmission is now an issue. I have spent over 15k on repairs for a vehicle I bought for 17k..I was lied to when I purchased the vehicle being told I was the 2nd owner instead of the 5th. The passenger air bag has a code. The AC doesn't work, the heat would blow all the time even if off and on cool, now the blower doesn't work at all. The windows don't open.
I will be driving down the road, either on highway or city street and all of a sudden a warning light comes on that says service stabilitrak/reduce engine power/traction control. The next day it will run fine.
I have a 2012 chevy traverse, ive only owned it less than 2 years and had issues with service stabilitrack/traction control at least 6 times. When this happens the car looses power, my check engine light comes on, ive even had black smoke come out of my hood and tail pipe trying to keep it running on the highway so my family and I werent killed. I have taken it to the dealership and the codes it throws makes no sense . After they wipe the codes, let it sit its fine for a few weeks. I know im not the only traverse owner with this issue, is it going to take a family dying on a major highway, or a child being killed because their parents lost power in their only car in traffic and a truck hit them. Please please fix this issue. I dont wanna die because I bought a traverse. I cant afford another car payment right now.
Flashing engine light, stabilitrack light, traction control light, all of the different codes flashing, then air conditioner blows hot, vehicle won't go forward, it just stops right there,and there is nothing you can do. It generally happens when you're driving on city streets stopping or starting.
Without any warning got the following messages: traction control off, service stability trak,service traction control, engine power is reduced. Then the check engine light went on and I was told it was the camshaft correlation. I've looked on line and have noticed many traverse owners are having this problem where the car slows down to a halt in the middle of the road or refuses to go faster than 25 miles per hour. We purchased this vehicle as a certified pre-owned 4 years ago and it does'nt even have 100,000 miles on it. I was on the road when the messages came on and I had to quickly pull in to a gas station because I was driving on a 55 mile an hour road and the car quickly slowed down to around 25mph.
I just purchased this vehicle 2 weeks ago from taylor chevrolet. It has already been in the dealership twice for some sensor issues that they knew about when it was sold to me and said they were going to fix when "a part came in" they never called so I had to contact them when the truck started having issues. This is where I have the biggest problem I almost lost my life today when a semi almost hit me while driving because the stabilitrak system completely went out which apparently is an issue on these trucks that is not being addressed. The control panel is displaying service stabilitrak and engine losing power. I lost a day of work so far and need my vehicle to maintain my bills and keep my job. This all happened one day after getting my truck back from being serviced
I was driving with my children while exiting a highway off-ramp, and our chevy traverse suddenly malfunctioned and I temporarily lost power steering/control of the car, had no acceleration, and all instruments went wonky (turning on/off, going back and forth). I was forced to pull off the highway off-ramp onto a dangerously narrow shoulder with minimal room, and had to coast the car to the end of the off-ramp-- and then was stuck at the off ramp at a red light in rush-hour traffic. After towing the vehicle to the dealership, we replaced the battery at the suggestion of our local chevy dealership. Then about 4 months later, the problem has happened again as I was exiting our driveway on my way to work. We had it towed to our local chevy dealership, and after 4 days of running diagnostics and test driving it, they finally concluded it was a faulty transmission module. We now have to pay $ 1,700.00 out of pocket to repair the car, as were one year over the 5 year warranty (but only 55k miles on the car). At the time this happened, our traverse only had approx. 57k miles on it.
Tl* the contact owns a 2012 chevrolet traverse. On three separate occasions, the traction control indicator illuminated and the vehicle decelerated. The vehicle lost power steering ability, but was able to coast over to the side of the road. In addition, on two occasions, the vehicle was restarted and able to drive normally. The vehicle was taken to yark chevrolet (located at 9830 waterville swanton rd, whitehouse, oh 43571, (419) 877-7658) where it was diagnosed, but a failure code could not be found. The contact also stated that the failures recurred a third time while driving 70 MPH. In addition, the engine failed and the steering seized. The contact was able to coast the vehicle to the side of the road, but failed to restart. The vehicle was towed back to yark chevrolet where it was diagnosed that the engine needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired due to the repair fees. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and provided case number: [xxx]. The approximate failure mileage was 126,000. Parts of this document have been redacted to protect personally identifiable information pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
While driving on the highway at 55mph my vehicle seemed to suddenly drive rough and I thought I was going to lose control or a blown tire or something. I lost power and my vehicle began to slow down on its own. Things began to light up on my dash about the stabilitrak system needing servicing. This was terrifying since cars were flying by me and I was in the middle lane. This has happened more than once even on local roads at slower speeds such as 30mph. Why is there no recall for this? There are so many complaints and families are in these vehicles including mine. I am also getting a check engine code for timing. My vehicle is just at 70k miles and I use it as a daily driver to/from work and primarily just in my town. Furthest I drive is 20 minutes down the highway to a relative and back. Please fix this with a recall! It is extremely unsafe! The recall shouldn't be issued once there is a tragic death, it should be issued before!! I've already had to deal with my wipe blades coming off and hitting each other because the bolts came loose while I was driving home in heavy rain and there was a recall for that! This stabilitrak and timing recall needs to happen.
This has happened twice once with our kids in the car on the way home from the airport and once to my wife on her way home from work. Both on the freeway at 65+ MPH. Driving fine then all of a sudden violent shaking, and loss of power. Cannot steer at 65 MPH that is literally deadly. Service stabilitrak light comes on, traction control off light comes on, and reduced engine power light comes on. Extremely dangerous and had a 6,4,and 2 year old in the vehicle. The fact that this hasn't been addressed as a recall is absolutely absurd. I went through 16 pages of complaints on a chevrolet forum about this issue. How many does it take before the problem is addressed? Does someone need to die? From what I understand it may not be worth taking into a mechanic as they have not been able to nail down the issue and I don't have thousands of dollars to pour into a problem that doesnt have a sure cure. Abaolutely ridiculous to be doing freeway speeds and then not be able to steer. Do something about this.
The truck loose power and light traction control need services soon and engine luck of power is to go over 20 miles
I was driving my traverse on an on ramp to the highway when the check engine light came on. The dash said service stabilitrac, engine power reduced... Just as I was about to merge into traffic. I lost acceleration and had to take the shoulder of the highway to avoid getting run over by a semi that was at highway speed! I can't believe there isn't a recall or something for this extremely dangerous issue!!
I was driving down the street. Everything went out on my dash speed odometer, and gas light hand . I was losing power. Then I notice it said service stabilitrak control off.
Stabilitrak/ traction control turns off suddenly while driving without reason. Abs brakes light comes on in message center. Vehicle suddenly loses power and engine idles rough. Occurs suddenly without warning leaving driver/passengers stranded in dangerous roadways. Vehicle only has 70,000 miles and is serviced regularly. Vehicle was serviced two months ago for this problem, where an alignment temporarily fixed the problem. Two months later, problem returned.
'service stabilitrack' 'traction control off' loss of engine power lights come on while driving causing the car to immediately slow and traction control to turn off . This almost caused us to hit another car with the loss of power before we were able to pull over shut the car off restart and drive with the error warnings gone . This happens frequently
At 30k miles the stability and would put my car in limp mode. This is extremely dangerous onthe interstates. Suddenly dropping the speed to about 30 MPH. I dealt with this by keeping the stabilitrac turned off. Now at 100k it turned on and off by itself. Reeding blogs I have found no fix for this. The vehicle now fills with fumes. I will probably never buy another gm product. I can not use my car. This happens in almost every driving situation.
In december of 2018 I took my car to diane sauer in warren ohio because the stabilizer traction control light came on and the car was driving very rough. I took it to diane sauer and service manager keith said nothing was wrong with it and didn't charge me for the diagnostic report. I took my car back in january 2019 with same problem but worse. So bad I got off the by-pass and had it towed. Diane sauer had my car for two weeks and never called about the car. I had to repeatedly call them. After two weeks they say the engine was gone. Keith told gm it was due to lack of maintenance. I provided gm and diane sauer with all receipts of my oil change. I bought that car from diane sauer brand new!!! I took care of the car and after seven years they say the engine is gone!!!! No way!!! I took great care of that car!!! Diane sauer needs to stand behind their products!!!! Diane sauer would not be in business without your customers who support your business!!!! Stand behind your products!!!! Be honest!!! The trust is gone!!!!!!
Purchased car used in december '15. Numerous times car was driving and a warning was given on dash "reduce engine owr, service stablitrak". Car was takento marty feldman in livonia, mi (may 17)and per inspection stated needed new accelerator pedal which was not the problem. Problems persisted with said vehicle fast fwd to march 2019 car will not start at all. Victory chevy in milan, mi stated timing chain went out needs replaced. Online a quick search finds these same issues with thousands of traverse n equinox models!!! A recall is needed
While driving the kids to school the dash dings and says traction control off, service stabilitrak, engine power is reduced. Then my car would not go over 15mph. I am now afraid to drive this car especially with the kids as it is unsafe.
All of a sudden the vehicle displays service stabilitrak, traction control off, engine power reduced. Then the vehicle has very little power to accelerate or navigate hills. When it first happened to me, I pulled out of our driveway and it just wasn't running smoothly and I had very little power to drive forward.
I've had this 2012 traverse for less than a year. At first the traction control would come on after sitting at a red light. Reduced engine light comes on and truck will pull hard and barely exceed 40mph. I pull over, turn off engine for approximately a minute. Then restart engine and stabilitrak would go off. Now the problem will occur while driving. Sometimes the engine shuts off in mid traffic. It also comes on while in warming engine in the mornings. I have to turn engine off and on a few times before it goes off.
The first time I was in a restaurant drive thru but sitting idle. Then several codes flashed on my dash about traction control and stabilitrak and limp mode and it started to stink. We towed it to our mechanic and he could not tell what code was causing the issue so he cleared the codes and it ran fine after that. After a couple additional trips to the mechanic, we did have a couple issues seemingly related and he ended up replacing a coil and all the spark plugs. Now, a few months later, my wife was driving up the road to our house and just before turning into our driveway, the same error messages came up on the dash. She turned off the car and called me. When I got home I started the car and got the same results. We had the car towed to our mechanic again. This time when the tow truck arrived, the car did not start. After it arrived at our mechanic, he could not start it, and he could only read one code and it said nondefining code and he could not determine what the problem is. He then cleared the code and it is running fine again. I am very concerned this is going to happen on the highway with my wife driving and she will be seriously hurt. I have read many other complaints of this same issue and cannot believe a recall has not happened. Just look at this: [xxx] I am not seriously considering trading it in for a non chevy vehicle. *tr parts of this document have been redacted to protect personally identifiable information pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
While driving , stopped at light. Started to drive and ABS trouble light comes on and the brakes lock up. I had to drive as if all my brakes where on , they heat up and smoke. Parked in my driveway husband go out to check and trouble is gone. Ack to normal . No trouble locked in as if nothing happened . Dealer said can't do anything unless it is brought in with trouble. It's has been happening about once a month . Almost got in accident . Chevy. Reds to address and fix this problem. There are a lot of other people on the internet stating the same problem. Going to get rid of car if the problem can not be fix before I get in an accident with my kids. Chevy should investigate the problem and create a recall to correct the problem before someone ends up getting killed from it . It is a huge safety issue and do not understand why nothing is being done about the problem.
My wife was driving our 2012 chevy traverse, received errors "engine power is reduced" and "traction control off". She said the vehicle couldn't go above 20 MPH and she was on a 50mph road. She was very frantic with our kids in the car. Drove it to our mechanic who told us it's a fuel pressure sensor issue going to cost $400. Started searching and found many forums with the same problem and appears no one knows what's wrong. Very unsafe. Need a recall. Happening too often.
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