Owner-reported complaints naming the driver-assistance system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming forward-collision avoidance, lane keeping, back-over prevention, cruise control and related electronic driver-assistance systems. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 2011 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 8 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
It is a transmission control module wear a lobster transmission into a Garin. Will not let you speed up or speed down and it is unsafe and GM IS making us pay for the bill. The contact stated transmission control module all across the country on back order, you cannot get a dealer to get you one within six months GM should have to do something about this.
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2011 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL INDICATOR ILLUMINATED. THE LOCAL DEALER AND MANUFACTURER WERE NOT CONTACTED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 125,000.
RANDOMLY WHILE DRIVING, WARNING BELLS & LIGHTS FLASH, MESSAGE IN DIC STATE SERVICE STABILITRAK/TRACTION CONTROL. INSTRUMENT CLUSTER GOES DEAD, A/C QUITS COOLING & RADIO QUITS. IF THE VEHICLE IS IN MOTION IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE DRIVABLE. AS SOON AS YOU STOP OR ARE STOPPED WHEN IT OCCURS, THE TRANSMISSION STOPS WORKING. THE ENGINE CONTINUES TO RUN, AND CAN BE REVVED HOWEVER THE VEHICLE WILL NOT MOVE. AFTER TURNING OFF THE IGNITION, OPENING THE DRIVER'S DOOR AND WAITING A COUPLE OF MINUTES, YOU CAN RESTART THE ENGINE, THE GAUGES AND TRANSMISSION WILL ONCE AGAIN OPERATE. IT HAS NOW STARTED TO PERIODICALLY CAUSE THE DRIVER SIDE LOW BEAM HEADLIGHT AND DRIVER'S DOOR LOCK TO NOT FUNCTION AS WELL.
2011 DURAMAX DIESEL SILVERADO 2500. WHEN CHANGING LANES IN LAKE TAHOE IN HEAVY TRAFFIC ENGINE SUDDENLY WENT FULL THROTTLE. I STOOD ON BRAKES WITH BOTH FEET AS THE TRUCK WAS BURNING RUBBER AND NEARLY REAR ENDED A HANDICAPPED VAN. I SHUT THE ENGINE OFF AND THE TRANSMISSION SLAMMED TO A LOWER GEAR. ONCE I LET TRAFFIC CLEAR AND RE-STARTED THE COMPUTER RESET AND THE THROTTLE WAS FINE. I MANAGED TO HOOK UP MY RV AND HEAD HOME BUT WAS CAREFUL NOT TO ACCELERATE VERY HARD HOPING IT WOULD NOT HAPPEN AGAIN. TRUCK IS NOW IN A LOCAL DIESEL REPAIR SHOP BEING EVALUATED. ENGINE WAS REVVING CLOSE TO 5,000 RPM. THOUGHT FOR SURE WE WERE ABOUT TO GET IN A SERIOUS ACCIDENT OR HIT SOME PEOPLE AS THERE WAS VERY HEAVY VEHICLE AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC.
THROTLE POSITION SENSOR IS ALWAYS ON EVEN AFTER REPLACED TRANSMISSION IS SHIFTING, POORLY, NEEDS REPROGRAMMING GEARS ARE SHIFTING ROGHT MALFUNTION OF TRANSMISSION SOLEINOIDS, BAD MANUFACTURE,
ON 09/22/2014 AT APPROXIMATELY 1610HRS I WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON I-95 IN THE STATE OF MAINE. I ATTEMPTED TO EXIT THE HIGHWAY NEAR SIDNEY, ME. I TAPPED ON THE BRAKE TO CANCEL THE CRUISE CONTROL. AS I BRAKED MY VEHICLE ATTEMPTED TO SPEED UP. WHEN I APPLIED THE BRAKE MY VEHICLE DOWN SHIFTED AND ATTEMPTED TO MAINTAIN ITS SPEED. THIS SITUATION NEARLY CAUSED ME TO HAVE AN ACCIDENT AND TOOK AGGRESSIVE BRAKING TO STOP THE VEHICLE. ON 09/23/2014 I ATTEMPTED TO HAVE THIS SITUATION DOCUMENTED AT FRANK GALOS CHEVORLET IN SACO, ME. THEY REFUSED TO DOCUMENT THE PROBLEM. I CALLED GENERAL MOTORS AT 1-800-222-1020 AND HAD THE PROBLEM DOCUMENTED. COMPLAINT # [XXX]. THIS INCIDENT COULD HAVE BEEN A NEAR DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY ACCIDENT. INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6). *TR
TRAVELING AT 60 MILES PER HOUR, ACCELERATED AND THE ACCELERATOR STUCK GOING UP TO 80 MILES PER HOUR IN A 60 MPH ZONE. I STOMPED ON THE ACCELERATOR TO NO AVAIL. I HAD TO PUT THE TRUCK INTO NEUTRAL TO AVOID A CRASH. PULLED OVER AND FINALLY KEPT STOMPING THE ACCELERATOR UNTIL IT RELEASED. *TR
NEW VEHICLE FRONT END SUSPENSION BEGAN TO RANDOMLY VIOLENTLY SHAKE AT DIFFERENT SPEEDS (ONCE @ 55 MPH & ONCE @ 70 MPH). THE SHAKING WAS SO BAD THAT THE DRIVER COULD BARLEY HOLD THE WHEEL STRAIGHT TO AVOID LOSING CONTROL & CRASHING. WHILE THIS WAS HAPPENING THE VEHICLE 4 WD LIGHT WAS BLINKING DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE VEHICLE WAS IN 2 WD. ONCE DRIVER WAS ABLE TO PULL OVER HE INSPECTED THE OUTSIDE OF THE VEHICLE TO FIND NO MECHANICAL ISSUES (NO FLAT TIRES, THINGS IN THE WHEELS, ETC...). DRIVER THEN BEGAN DRIVING AGAIN & THE VEHICLE WAS FINE AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED. DRIVER CALLED ONSTAR & THEY STATED THERE WERE NO FAULT CODES IN THE SYSTEM. SEVERAL DAYS LATER THE SAME THING HAPPENED WHILE DRIVING AT 70 MPH. THIS TIME THE DRIVER NEARLY GOT INTO A ROLL OVER ACCIDENT. HE WAS ABLE TO GET THE VEHICLE TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. UPON INSPECTION THERE WERE AGAIN NO MECHANICAL ISSUES. OWNER DROVE TO DEALER & WAS TOLD TO BRING BACK THE NEXT DAY. OWNER INQUIRED IF VEHICLE WAS SAFE TO DRIVE & WAS TOLD "I HOPE SO" BY THE SERVICE TECHNICIAN. GM CUSTOMER CARE WAS CALLED & STATED THEY WERE NOT AWARE OF ANY ISSUES WITH THE 2011 HD VEHICLES. OWNER TOOK VEHICLE TO DEALER NEXT MORNING & SEVERAL HOURS LATER WAS CALLED & TOLD IT WAS MUD IN WHEELS (NOT POSSIBLE SINCE THE FIRST TIME IT HAPPENED THERE WAS NO MUD). OWNERS SON THEN LOOKED ON INTERNET TO SEE MANY PEOPLE HAVING THE SAME ISSUE IN THIS MODEL YEAR VEHICLE. THE SON THEN FOUND THAT A TSB WAS ISSUED BY GM TO ALL DEALERS FOR A STICKY BREAK PEDAL THAT WHEN STUCK (EVEN THOUGH IT APPEARS VISUALLY TO NOT BE STUCK) WILL AT RANDOM TIMES CAUSE THE ABS TO ACTIVATE VIOLENTLY. TSB# PIT5037B. DEALER WAS THEN TOLD BY OWNER ABOUT THE TSB & DEALER WAS NOT AWARE OF TSB. REPAIR WAS PERFORMED & THE VEHICLE HAS NOT SHOOK SINCE. OWNER WAS SUPPOSE TO BE PULLING A 30 FT 5TH WHEEL WITH A 15 FT TRAILER ATTACHED TO IT (45 FT. TOTAL). IF THEY HAD BEEN THEY LIKELY WOULD HAVE BEEN IN MAJOR ACCIDENT WITH POSSIBLE LOSS OF LIFE DUE TO THE SWAY IT CAUSES WHEN IT OCCURS. *TR
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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