Can started to smoke. Panel stated reduce engine. Couldn't go over 20mph. Car broke down with two kids in car.
2011 GMC Acadia driver assistance complaints
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While driving this morning I had a series of messages appear : "traction control off" , then "service stabilitrak" and then very soon after "reduced engine power". The car would still run, but would not go above approximately 20mph and struggled to maintain speed. At one point had to pull over and turn engine off to almost "reset" car to be able to continue driving to destination. This is the third time that this has happened and have had to take to the shop. I have small children that are typically in the vehicle when this happens and am concerned for their safety if this issue cannot be resolved.
While driving this morning this message appeared : "traction control off" , then "service stabilitrak". Very soon after message "reduced engine power" appeared. The car was still running, but would not go above approximately 2k RPM's or 15mph. This is the second time that this has happened and have had to take to shop and have throtle body inspected and recalibrated. This is my wifes car and I have a small child that was in car when this happened. This happened in an area that is heavily traveled to include school buses.
While driving a message appeared : "traction control off" , then "service stabilitrak". Very soon after (a minute or two later) - a message "reduced engine power" appeared. The car was still running, but would not go above approximately 2k RPM's. Luckily we were on a slow road, so we were able to pull off and there were no high speed cars behind us. Shutting the car off, waiting a few minutes then turning it back on appeared to clear the issue. The traction control showed as off when it first stated up, but then it showed 'traction control on" as it strated to drive. It looks like there are a lot of reports of this on the internet.
I was dropping my son off to school, doing about 20 MPH when my car dash started blinking off and on saying traction control is off; check traction control; and then the car just stalled in the middle of a busy road with my son in the back seat. I found out that my computer system had malfunction and that I would need a new on installed.
June 11th 2014, it was a wednesday. I drove over a set of railroad tracks and all of a sudden my car starts beeping and flashing all of these lights at me. The park assist off , the traction control off, the service stabilitrak? And the ?check engine? Lights all come on. We are in town and not going very fast so I don?t notice the car driving any differently at first. I stop and still everything seems fine, except for all these lights flashing at me. When I try to go again is when I realized that there is a problem. My car will not accelerate. I have the gas pushed all the way to the ground and my car is moving at like snail speed, I?m trying to make a left hand turn, up a hill, to get to the parking lot but my car literally will not move! Vehicles are swerving to avoid crashing into us, I call a tow truck and my finance. When we do hear back from the gmc dealership they basically tell us that we?re idiots. They test drove the car and looked it over and hooked it up to their fancy machines and there?s nothing wrong with it. August 16th. My fianc is driving,on a highway at 65 all of those same lights come on and my fianc announces, ?omg [xxx], I think it?s happening again. ? Sure enough he is unable to accelerate and the vehicle stalls out in the middle of the road. Luckily for us this time we are on flat terrain and we are able to coast into my mother?s driveway. Because it is so late we decided to just go to bed and deal with it in the morning. In the morning, though, we get into the car and it drives perfectly fine. We drive 6 hours back to rapid city, with no issues, although we are sick to our stomachs. Saturday, september 27, 2014 the exact same thing happens. Dash reeds as this traction control off park assist off service traction control service stabilitrak *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).
I saw an error message on the dashboard that read "service traction control", then it read "traction control off" and then the last thing that read was "engine power is reduced". That's when my car dropped from going 55 MPH to 20 MPH and I could not accelerate. I pulled off the road a few minutes then back onto road but had no power. I pulled over and called a tow truck and had it towed to shop.they replaced accelerator pedal assembly. Cost me $259.84.
While driving on interstate 17w going to deposit, ny, I suddenly saw an error message on the dashboard that read "service traction control", then it read "traction control off" and then the last thing that read was "engine power is reduced". That's when my car dropped from going 60 MPH on cruise control to 20 MPH and I could not accelerate. Thankfully, I was already in the right lane and was able to pull onto the shoulder. At that point, I turned off the vehicle and waited, thinking that the error message would go away and it's just a computer glitch, as this is common with this model vehicle. I started the vehicle again and it had full power but the error message to "service traction control" was still on and alternating between that message and "traction control off". This incident occurred three separate times on the same day along the same highway and at one of the times, there was a large vehicle behind me and thankfully, the driver was able to quickly move to the next lane because I the engine reduced power and I could not accelerate. I put my hazard lights on each time it happened. Thank god my children were not in the car with me when this happened. I have had many difficulties with this vehicle since it was first leased in 2011. I think that all the gmc acadias should be recalled as it poses such a tremendous danger to motorists.
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