2016 Chevrolet Colorado

POWER STEERING ASSIST WENT OUT. HAD DROVE IN FRIGID TEMPS FROM HOME TO WORK JUST FINE, PARKED FOR ONE HOUR IN PARKING LOT, WHEN I WENT TO LEAVE , HAD NO POWER STEERING. MESSAGE POP UP , "SERVICE..POWER STEERING ASSIST. " COULD BARELY STEER-TURN TRUCK MOVING AT SLOW SPEED. SNOW ON SO HAD TO DRIVE SLOW. VERY DANGEROUS. WENT 10 MILES TO DEALERSHIP AND LEFT IT TO BE CHECKED. WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO CONTROL IT ON MY CURVY ROAD HOME.

GOT IN MY TRUCK AND STARTED IT. WARNING CAME ON TO REPAIR POWER STEERING. I HAVE DRIVEN WITH MANUAL STEERING BEFORE SO I THOUGHT I COULD DRIVE HOME. PULLED FORWARD AND ATTEMPTED TO TURN BUT I COULD NOT TURN WHEELS AT ALL. CALLED WRECKER AND HAD IT TOWED. GARAGE MAN CALLED TO SAY POWER STEERING MOTOR HAD GONE OUT. FORTUNATELY I WAS IN A PARKING LOT, HAD I BEEN DRIVING ON ROADWAY IT COULD HAVE BEEN BAD.

POWER STEERING FAILED COMPLETELY WHILE IN MOTION ON THE INTERSTATE GOING 65 MPH IN GLENWOOD SPRINGS, CO. WAS VERY SCARY AND COULD HAVE CAUSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. CHEVROLET DEALERSHIP TOOK 3 WEEKS TO FIND PROBLEM. THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO WARRANTY. CHEVROLET CORPORATE DOES NOT CARE AT ALL, ACTUALLY ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET A HOLD OF ANYONE THERE.

WITHOUT WARNING THE SERVICE POWER STEERING MESSAGE APPEARS AND IMMEDIATELY THERE IS A LOSS OF STEERING. IT IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO TURN. WHEN STOPPED AND THE IGNITION IS TURNED OFF THE SYSTEM SOMETIMES RESETS BACK TO NORMAL. ALSO WITHOUT WARNING THE MESSAGE SERVICE STABILTRAK COMES ON. IN THIS MODE THE TRUCK PULLS EXTREMELY TO THE HARD TO THE LEFT. THIS HAPPENED 4 TIMES WITHIN AN HOUR AT ALL VARIOUS SPEEDS ON OPEN COUNTRY ROADS. I'VE READ GM HAS RECALLED 2015 COLORADO'S FOR SAME PROBLEM (GM15595). WHY HAVEN'T THEY INCLUDED 2016? I'VE READ THE REPAIR COSTS ABOUT $1700.00. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS PROBLEM AND NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.

WHEN DRIVING AT SPEED OF TRAFFIC, POWER STEERING GOES AWAY MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO MANEUVER TRUCK. WARNING CODE COMES ON SERVICE STABILITRAK. BY PULLING OVER AND TURNING OFF THEN RESTARTING TRUCK. CODE CLEARS AND POWER STEERING IS ACTIVE AGAIN. 2015 MODEL OF SAME TRUCK HAD A RECALL THAT GM IS APPARENTLY NOT ADDRESSING ON THE 2016 MODELS. PROBLEM HAS HAPPENED WHILE SITTING AT A LIGHT, AND WHILE DRIVING ON CITY STREETS AND HIGHWAYS. PROBLEM IS COMPLETELY RANDOM. DEALER CLEARED PROGRAM ERRORS BUT COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING ELSE WRONG. WIFE DROVE ON FREEWAY AND POWER STEERING FAILED AGAIN ALMOST CAUSING AN ACCIDENT WHILE TURNING SOUTHBOUND FROM AN EAST BOUND FREEWAY CONNECTOR.

JUST REPORTED YESTERDAY, IT DID IT AGAIN TODAY. YES, IT'S VERY COLD IN OUR WINTER, BUT THIS SHOULD NOT AFFECT THE STEERING LIKE THIS. ONCE AGAIN, AFTER PARKING THE TRUCK, AFTER DRIVING TO WORK, I SHUT IT OFF UNTIL ABOUT 11 AM. TURNED IT ON FOR LUNCH, STEERING WAS NON OPERATIONAL. TURNED TRUCK ON AND OFF MANY TIMES WITH NO CHANGE. STILL NON OPERATIONAL. PARKING IN MY GARAGE SEEMS TO HELP OR SOMETHING, I DON'T KNOW. IF THIS GOES OUT ON OUR ICY ROADS AT HIGHWAY SPEED, SOMEONE WILL GET SERIOUSLY INJURED OR DEAD. IF CHEVY IS WAITING FOR THAT, THEY BETTER GET A BIG CHECK READY. SO TIRED OF THIS PHANTOM PROBLEM DISAPPEARING IF YOU CAN GET IT TO A DEALERSHIP TO GET FIXED.

DRIVES JUST FINE, AFTER PARKING, ELECTRONIC POWER STEERING BECOMES INOPERATIVE, WARNING MESSAGE OF "POWER STEERING, DRIVE WITH CARE" APPEARS, STEERING BECOMES EXTREMELY DIFFICULT. NO INJURIES CAUSED BY THIS...YET. I HAVE TAKEN IT TO DEALER FOR FIX, BUT THEY COULDN'T DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM, SO I DRIVE IT AGAIN UNTIL IT HAPPENS. I HOPE THEY'RE NOT WAITING FOR AN INJURY OR A DEATH BEFORE THEY FIX THIS PROBLEM.