2009 Chevrolet Impala

ON MY COMMUTE TO WORK ON THE INTERSTATE MY IMPALA SHUT ITSELF OFF. I WAS IN THE LEFT LANE WHEN THE CAR SHOWED THE REDUCED ENGINE POWER ON THE INFORMATION PANEL, IT THEN FULLY DISENGAGED ALL ENGINE POWER AND POWERSTEERING. BEING IN THE OUTSIDE LANE I HAD TO MANEUVER MY IMPALA THROUGH THE HEAVY TRAFFIC AND ALMOST CAUSED NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS TRYING TO SQUEEZE TO THE SHOULDER. I THEN COASTED OFF INTO THE GRASS ALMOST INTO A LARGE DITCH BUT I SLAMMED ON THE BRAKES HARD AND WENT INTO A SKID COMING TO A FULL STOP. I SCANNED THE CAR WITH MY OBD2 SCANNER, IT READ P0601. *JS

I WAS DRIVING DOWN A VERY BUSY STREET LOOKING FOR A RESTAURANT AND MY CAR MADE THREE DINGING SOUNDS INDICATING A ISSUE. BEFORE I EVEN COULD READ WHAT WAS DISPLAYING ON MY INFORMATION PANEL THE CAR LOST ALL POWER STEERING AND ENGINE POWER. BECAUSE I WAS TRAVELING AT ABOUT 55MPH I COULD VERY LUCKILY COAST TO A PARKING LOT NEAR BY. AFTER COASTING TO A PARKING SPOT I PUT THE CAR IN PARK AND READ THE INFORMATION PANEL, IT READ REDUCED ENGINE POWER, SERVICE STABILITRAK, AND SERVICE THROTTLE BODY. BECAUSE I KNOW MOST AMERICAN MADE CARS ARE PURE GARBAGE I WONT DRIVE ONE WITHOUT A EBDII SCANNER. AFTER READING THE EBDII SCANNER IT SHOWED A P0601 CODE, WHICH INDICATES A PCM MEMORY ISSUE. AFTER CLEARING THE CODE IT STARTED RIGHT BACK UP AND DROVE FOR ABOUT 10 MORE MINUTES UNTIL I WAS AT A PARKING LOT ON A STEEP GRADE. THE 3 DINGS HAPPENED AGAIN AND MY ENGINE SHUT OFF CAUSING ME TO ROLL BACKWARDS ABOUT 10 FEET ALMOST INTO OVER VEHICLES. I HAVE DONE SOME RESEARCH ON THIS AND HAVE COME TO FOUND THAT THIS IS A ENGINEERING FAULT CAUSED BY TO MUCH CURRENT FLOWING INTO THE POWER CONTROL MODULE, WHICH CREATES A SMALL HAIRLINE CRACK ON THE PCM ONBOARD COMPUTER, WITH WHICH MANY MANY OTHER GM PRODUCTS HAVE EXPERIENCED. I FEEL A RECALL SHOULD BE DONE ON ALL GM PRODUCTS AFFECTED BY THIS, THIS IS VERY UNSAFE AND I FEEL COULD LEAD TO DEATHS. I AM A [XXX] MALE WHO COULD CONTROL THE VEHICLE WITH NO POWER STEERING, IMAGINE A STUDENT DRIVER ENCOUNTERING THIS ISSUE AND NOT BEING ABLE TO MANEUVER THE VEHICLE AWAY FROM OTHER DRIVERS OR EVEN INNOCENT PEDESTRIANS! I KNOW FOR A FACT THIS HAS HAPPENED TO MANY OTHER GM VEHICLE OWNERS SO DOES A BODY COUNT HAVE TO STACK UP BEFORE A RECALL IS ISSUED BY GM?? *TR

I DRIVE A 2009 CHEVROLET IMPALA. ON 8-6-13 DRIVING THE FAR LANE ON THE HIGHWAY I EXPERIENCED A SERIES OF WARNING MESSAGES ON THE DASHBOARD. THE MESSAGES WERE, "SERVICE TRACTION CONTROL, ENGINE POWER REDUCED AND SERVICE ENGINE." AS THE SPEED OF THE CAR BEGAN TO REDUCE, I WENT TO MERGE INTO THE SLOW LANE TO PREPARE TO TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. BEFORE I COULD SWITCH ONE LANE A MESSAGE POPPED UP SAYING, "STEERING COLUMN HAS BEEN LOCKED." AT THAT POINT THE STEERING WHEEL BECAME VERY TIGHT ALMOST ENABLING ME TO STEER INTO THE RIGHT LANE. AT THE SAME TIME, THE VEHICLES MILEAGE HAS DROPPED DOWN TO PRACTICALLY NOTHING. LETS REMEMBER I'M ON THE HIGHWAY DURING 5:00PM RUSH HOUR. BY THE TIME THE ONCOMING TRAFFIC REACHED ME, I WAS ABLE TO GET OFF ONTO THE SHOULD OF THE HIGHWAY. I THEN GET A WARNING MESSAGE SAYING, "ENGINE HAS BEEN DISABLED." AT THAT POINT I SHUT THE CAR OFF. I'VE LOST A FAMILY MEMBER TO CAR FAILURE ON THE HIGH WAY. AT THIS POINT I SIT FOR ABOUT A MINUTE OR TWO AND THEN START THE CAR BACK UP. AFTER TURNING OVER A COUPLE OF TIMES, THE CAR STARTS AND OPERATES AT AN EXCEPTIONAL SPEED. IMAGINE HAD THE CARS BEHIND NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION. MAYBE THEY WERE TEXTING, FATIGUED, LOOKING BEHIND THEM OR ANYTHING TO HAVE MADE THEM NOT NOTICE THE DISABLED VEHICLE AHEAD. THIS COULD'VE BEEN A MASSIVE FATAL CRASH. MY [XXX] YEAR OLD CHILD WOULD NOT HAVE STOOD A CHANCE. AFTER RESEARCHING ON THE INTERNET THAT THIS IS A KNOWN ISSUE AND GM HAS DONE NOTHING TO JUSTIFY THE POORLY ASSEMBLED PARTS, I AM VERY UPSET AT THE LACK OF CONCERN FOR THEIR BUYERS SAFETY. AS A SINGLE PARENT, I HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO HAVE THE CAR SERVICED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO ELIMINATE ANY SAFETY HAZARDS TO MY CHILD. COMING OUT OF $300+ FOR SOMETHING GM SHOULD'VE RECALLED WHEN NOTIFIED IS UNACCEPTABLE. I WILL BE CONTACTING ALL SOURCES POSSIBLE TO INQUIRE ON GETTING A RECALL AND HOPEFULLY SAVING SOMEONE'S LIFE. *TR PARTS OF THIS DOCUMENT HAVE BEEN REDACTED TO PROTECT PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U

I AM HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MY 2009 CHEVY IMPALA, IT STARTED AT 43K, THE ACCELERATION PEDAL WAS CHANGED WHEN THE REDUCED ENGINE POWER/SERVICE TRACTION CONTROL CAME ON. THEN AGAIN AT 100K SAME PROBLEM, THIS TIME THE DEALERSHIP TOLD ME IT WAS A BAD THROTTLE POSITION SENSOR, THE THROTTLE BODY NEEDED TO BE CHANGED. I CHANGED IT, BUT IT CAME BACK AGAIN LESS THEN 3K MILES. I REPLACED THE THROTTLE BODY AGAIN. 3K LATER SAME THING. THE PROBLEM IS WHEN IT IS RAINING THE THROTTLE SENSORS GO NUTS. I TOOK THE CAR TO ADVANCE AUTO AND READ THE CODES, SAME AS BEFORE, P0121, P2176, THROTTLE POSITION SENSOR. ONCE IN A WHILE YOU CAN REMOVE THE BATTER LINES AND UNPLUG THE THROTTLE BODY AND MASS AIR FLOW SENSOR TO GET IT TO RESTART. OTHER TIMES YOU HAVE TO GO TO ADVANCE OR AUTOZONE TO CLEAR THE CODES IN ORDER TO GET IT TO RUN LONG ENOUGH FOR A SUNNY DAY. I HAD ONE OCCURRENCE WERE THE CAR WOULD NOT START AND IT SAID SERVICE THROTTLE POSITION. THE THROTTLE SENSOR NEEDS TO BE RECALLED BEFORE SOMEONE GET KILLED. I HAVE RENAMED MY CAR TO THE FORD IMPALA. FOUND ON THE ROAD DEAD IMPALA. *TR

WHILE MERGING ONTO A TWO LANE HIGHWAY MY IMPALA SUDDENLY LOST POWER AND I RECEIVED A "LOW ENGINE POWER" WARNING AND THEN " SERVICE TRACTION CONTROL" THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT COMES ON AND THE CAR RUNS ROUGHLY AT REDUCED POWER - YOU NEED TO PULL OVER AND SHUT THE CAR OFF UNTIL YOU CAN START IT AGAIN. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS ISSUE THAT GM REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE. IN THIS INSTANCE I HAD MY DAUGHTER IN THE CAR - I ALSO LOST THE POWER BRAKES. I HAVE BEEN TO TWO CHEVROLET DEALERS AND A BUICK DEALER BECAUSE THIS HAS HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES OVER THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF. THEY REPLACED MY THROTTLE BODY, OIL SENSOR, BATTERY AND SOMETHING ELSE AND CHARGED ME OVER $2000 FOR THE THREE VISITS AND I AM STILL EXPERIENCING THE ISSUE. I HAVE ALSO BEEN TO A LOCAL REPAIR SHOP AND HAD THE WIRING HARNESS CHANGED AND HAD SEVERAL DIAGNOSTICS DONE. AFTER ALL THIS THE PROBLEM STILL EXISTS. I NORMALLY DON'T WRITE LETTERS BUT, THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION AND MANY OTHERS ARE EXPERIENCING THE SAME THING BASED ON THE MESSAGE BOARDS I HAVE READ. MY CONCERN IS THAT GM REFUSED TO HELP OR ISSUE A RECALL. MY FEAR IS THAT SOMEONE GETS SERIOUSLY HURT OR KILLED BEFORE GM ANSWERS FOR THIS. THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR GM. MY HOPE IS THAT SOMEONE FINALLY ADDRESSES THIS ISSUE BEFORE SOMEONE IS KILLED. IN MY LAST COMMUNICATION WITH GM - I WAS TOLD TO TAKE MY CAR TO A DEALER FOR A DIAGNOSTIC AT MY OWN EXPENSE. SO, BASICALLY I AM ON MY OWN AND THEY OFFERED TO DO NOTHING. JUST NOT RIGHT! *TR

ABOUT 2 MONTHS AGO I WAS ON THE INTERSTATE & I RECEIVED THE MESSAGE 'SERVICE STABILITRAK , ENGINE POWER REDUCED '. I WAS USING CRUISE CONTROL AT ABOUT 75 WHICH IMMEDIATELY CUT OFF , THE CARS SPEED DROPPED QUITE A BIT, I STOPPED FOR FUEL, TURNED THE CAR BACK ON & THE ERROR WAS GONE. JUST A FEW DAYS AGO THE SAME ISSUE HAPPENED, I WAS ONLY GOING ABOUT 40 THIS TIME, THE MESSAGE FLASHED & MY CARS POWER IMMEDIATELY BEGAN TO DROP. I COULD FEEL THE CARS HESITATION WHEN I ATTEMPTED TO ACCELERATE & THEN IT JOLTED A FEW TIMES & CRUISED FINE. THE ISSUE SEEMS TO BE A SENSOR IN THE PEDAL WHICH IS COMMON WITH THIS CAR. THE FACT THAT MY ENGINES POWER CAN CUT AT ANYTIME ,INCLUDING IN THE MIDDLE OF HIGHWAY TRAFFIC IS A SCARY THOUGHT. *TR

I RECENTLY PURCHASED A CHEVROLET IMPALA LTZ 2009 MODEL A FEW MONTHS AGO AND IT HAS 82,000 ON IT. WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY MY CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON. IT SAID THAT I HAD A BAD ACCELERATOR SENSOR. FOLLOWED BY A FLASHING LIGHT THAT SAID MY CAR HAD REDUCED ENGINE SPEED. I HAVE LOOKED UP MANY TIMES ABOUT THIS ISSUE WITH MY CAR AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE HAVE HAD PROBLEMS WITH A BAD GAS PEDAL. GM KNOWS AND I'M CONFUSED AS TO WHY THEY NEVER ASKED FOR A RECALL ON THIS. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2009 CHEVROLET IMPALA. THE CONTACT WAS DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 40 MPH WHEN THE CHECK ENGINE WARNING INDICATOR ILLUMINATED CONTINUOUSLY AS THERE WAS A SUDDEN REDUCTION IN ENGINE POWER. THE CONTACT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE DRIVING. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE PROBLEM. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 83,000.

ABOUT 2 WEEKS AGO MY SERVICE TRACTION CONTROL LIGHT APPEARED ON THE DASH. BEING THE PERSON THAT I AM I WAS VERY CONCERNED WITH THIS ISSUE AND TOOK IT TO HAVE IT CHECKED BY THE DEALERSHIP. THEY TOLD ME THAT THIS WILL OCCASIONALLY COME ON WITH THE AMOUNT OF RAIN WE HAD IN OUR AREA.THEY SAID WHEN IT HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DRY OUT IT WILL GO OFF. WELL TO DATE IT HAS NOT GONE OFF BUT STAYS ON THE MAJORITY OF THE TIME. NOW IT IS HAVING FUN WITH THE REDUCE POWER LIGHT WHICH BASICALLY SLOWS DOWN THE CAR. NOT ONLY ARE THE FLIP FLOPPING BUT WHEN I PUSH THE BRAKES IT SOMETIMES ACTS AS IF IT WILL CATCH BUT THEN LET GO AND CATCH AGAIN. HOW SCARY IS THIS WHEN YOU FEEL YOUR BRAKES WILL NOT STOP THE CAR? THIS IS NOT A GOOD FEELING. CALLED THE DEALERSHIP TO GET AN APPOINTMENT AND IT WILL COST ME $85 TO $100 TO HAVE THIS PUT ON A MACHINE TO SEE WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. AND GET THIS JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE THIS IS NOT A COVERED PROBLEM. MY QUESTION IS WHY? I HAVE TRIED VERY HARD TO STICK WITH CHEVROLET PRODUCTS BUT THIS IS REALLY MAKING ME RETHINK MY DECISION. EVERYONE SEEMS TO BE HAVING THE SAME ISSUES WITH THESE ALERTS AND SENSORS. I AM NOT ONE TO SINK A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY INTO A CAR WITH REPAIRS, I WILL GET RID OF IT IMMEDIATELY. I MAINTAIN MY CAR ON A REGULAR BASIS. *TR