2013 Chevrolet Traverse: jerking or lurching

7 of the 162 complaints about the 2013 Chevrolet Traverse describe jerking or lurching.

owner complaints: 7
of this car's complaints: 4%
typical mileage: 98,504
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 87 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

Jerking or lurching by model year

2026
2
2025
3
2024
2
2023
3
2022
1
2021
3
2020
7
2019
14
2018
32
2017
7
2016
5
2015
5
2014
33
2013
7
2012
8
2011
5
2010
9
2009
9

What owners say

Filed Feb 25, 2024 · Acceleration, Electrical · OK

Vehicle dies while driving in traffic. Has done this since I bought it. Very unsafe. I have had my car since march 2022. While driving it says engine power reduced, traction control, stabli track, and loses power and I have to try to safely make sure I get it off the road. After it dies it won't start. I have to get tow truck to bring it home. Then next day it starts fine sometimes. Very unsafe. I have children . I have barley been able to prevent myself from being in a wreck. When it dies the whole cars jerks. It does it all the time. This last time it was doing it so much I haven't been able to drive it. To afraid of accident.

Filed Feb 6, 2021 · 102,000 miles · OH

Was driving and the car jerked a few times. All of a sudden the dinging started and the car stated traction control off, stabilitrak off then said service traction control, service stabilitrak, low engine power. The check engine light then turned on. The car would not drive over so many MPH in the middle of traffic but was originally driving going 55 MPH on a main road.

Filed Sep 17, 2020 · Acceleration, Engine · 98,504 miles · NY

The car is a 2013 chevy traverse ls with 98,804 miles on it. When driving at highway speed the vehicle service engine light started flashing and a warning on the dash came up of service traction control, traction control system off, reduced engine power . The vehicle reduced speed from 60 MPH to 25 MPH. The vehicle started shaking and sounded like it was misfiring. When I brought the vehicle to a parking lot it would lurch forward when I let off the brake pedal. There were no warning signs of any mechanical issues or transmission issues prior to this. I shut off the vehicle let it sit for a moment and restarted it. Vehicle started fine no misfiring or lurching when I let off the brake. After resetting the faults the vehicle drove like normal. Appears to be an electronic issue. Possibly the fuse block. I have been a mechanic for 25 years this was my first time ever seeing this issue.

Filed Jul 10, 2020 · Airbags, Driver assistance · AZ

Been having serious issues with the power on turning my SUV on sounds like it's sparking hard under hood and also when the truck runs it jerks and when I go to start it up it tells me something about the air bags the alternator reads 14.0 volts then drops to 12.5 volts sometimes it stays there new battery has been put in a gold top and still problems are not going away this should be a recall cause I don't want to have to worry about if it could catch on fire or worst

Filed Apr 28, 2019 · Brakes, Engine · 2,000 miles · AZ

My vehicle has been doing this since it was purchased. The acceleration and deceleration are jerky sometimes. It feels occasionally like I have been rear-ended. I feel like it tries to accelerate while I am applying the breaks. When I am trying to apply the gas sometimes it has no power and I have to push the pedal down harder which leads it to jerk forward. Hard gear shifting lots of shaking and lurching. It is exactly like what the class action lawsuit against gm describes but my vehicle isn't one involved in that yet, but I believe it should be.

Filed Apr 8, 2019 · Electrical, Engine · 100,000 miles · NC

When vehicle is accellerated from a still position, and accelerated to get up to speed, vehicle engine has a constant jerking that vibrates the entire vehicle and once up to road or highway speed, and maintains a constant MPH, the shaking stops. When accelerating again,vehicle does the same thing; jerking / shaking until letting off the accelerator and leveling out at a certain MPH.. Air conditioner is constantly 'going out' during the summer, blowing only hot air, then after vehicle is turned off, and some time goes by, something in the electrical/computer system must reset itself because the A/C will start working fine once vehicle is turned back in.

Filed Aug 25, 2014 · Acceleration, Driver assistance · 34,800 miles · OH

This has now occurred twice within the past 30 days. While in motion, the vehicle transmissions jerks, and speed is immediately reduced to 5mph. The stability control light comes on as does the check engine light. A remote diagnostics scan from on-star identified 3 error codes: c0561, p0700, p182e. The first time it occurred while exiting a highway off-ramp. This vehicle was taken to the dealership. The dealership informed me that there were no know issues related to this, no recalls, and no service bulletins existed describing this behavior for the 2013 model year. They were unable to recreate the problem and returned the vehicle to me. This happened again yesterday while approaching an intersection and slowing from ~35mph with traffic close behind. This is an extremely dangerous system behavior which could have easily resulted in a severe incident in a dangerous intersection. While the vehicle is in the state where the stability control light is on we observed hard transmission shifting/jerking into and out of park, reverse, neutral, and drive. We turned the vehicle off for 15 minutes. Upon restarting, normal operations were restored with the exception of the check engine light. The check engine light turned off after ~25-30 miles of driving.