2015 GMC Canyon

FALL OF 2015 THE HEATER AND DEFROST SYSTEM WENT OUT. ONLY COLD AIR COMING THROUGH. ENTIRE DASH BOARD HAD TO BE REMOVED. VEHICLE IN SHOP FOR OVER 1 WEEK 349 DAYS LATER IN FALL 2016 SAME PROBLEM. GM DEALER STATES THAT THE INTERNAL LEVER THAT CLOSES THE HEATER DOOR BROKE. THIS OCCURS WHEN VEHICLE IS MOVING OR STOPPED. REPAIR BILL OVER $1,000. VEHICLE STILL ON WARRANTY FOR 1,500 MILES. CONCERN ABOUT LONG RANGE RELIABILITY. ONE TIME PROBLEM BUT 2 TIMES IN LESS THAN A YEAR. WINDOWS FOG UP AND CAN NOT SEE TO DRIVE.

WHILE DRIVING ALL THE DASH BOARD INFORMATION ,LIGHTS,INFORMATION WENT DARK, FOUR TIMES SINCE I PURCHASED THIS TRUCK NEW ,FEB. 2015. I HAVE TAKEN IT TO THE DEALERSHIP MANY TIMES, ONE TIME WHEN THE PROBLEM WAS PRESENT,SEPT .30 2016 THE EMPLOYEES AT THE SERVICE DESK CAME OUT OF THE OFFICE AND LOOKED AT THE DASH BOARD AND SAW THAT IT WAS DARK,NO DISPLAY AT ALL,3RD TIME, THEY WOULD NOT TAKE THE TRUCK INTO THE SHOP AS I DID NOT HAVE AN APPOINTMENT AT THAT TIME, THEY SET UP AN APPOINTMENT FOUR THREE DAYS LATER, WHEN I TOOK THE TRUCK IN FOR REPAIR ,THE DESK CLERK WENT OUT SIDE AND TALKED TO AN EMPLOYEE ,CAME BACK IN AND TOLD ME THEY WOULD NOT LOOK AT THE TRUCK NOW THAT THE PROBLEM WAS NOT PRESENT.I WAS STRUMPET.I COMPLAINED TO THE SERVICE MANAGER LATER THAT WEEK AND HE SET UP A TIME TO CHECK THE PROBLEM , WOULD GIVE ME A LONER CAR FOR MAYBE EIGHT TO TEN DAYS.CONFIRMED BY THE OWNERS SON , WHO WORKS AT THE DEALERSHIP. I TOOK THE TRUCK INTO THE DEALERSHIP ON OCT.12 2016, THE SERVICE MANAGER ASKED FOR THE KEYS AND SAID GET IN. WE WENT 3 MILES OUT AND BACK TO THE SHOP. HE SAID THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WE CAN NOT HOOK IT TO THE MACHINE. ON OCT.4 2016 WHILE IN ANOTHER CITY THE TIME ON THE DASH HAD GONE WRONG, SO I DROVE IT TO THE DEALERSHIP, SAME OWNER AND SHOWED HIM,NO RESPONSE TO FIX THE PROBLEM. STARTED FOR HOME HALF WAY HOME THE DASH WENT DARK, I HAVE A VIDEO OF THE DASH OFF WHILE DRIVING HOME AND THE VIDEO SHOWS THE DASH COMING BACK ON SENT EMAIL WITH VIDEO TO OWNER OF DEALERSHIP AND TO GLENN G M C REP,NEXT DAY THE OWNER SAID BRING THE TRUCK IN AND I WILL DRIVE IT FOR A FEW DAYS TO CHECK IT. IT HAS BEEN 5 DAYS WITH NO CALL FROM THE OWNER OF THE DEALERSHIP. I WANT TO TURN THIS TRUCK IN AS A LEMON AND GET A NEW ONE THAT DOES NOT HAVE A PROBLEM. I NEED A WORKING TRUCK TO TRAVEL 140 MILES ONE FOR DR> APPOINTMENT 10 28 2016.

WHILE DRIVING AT A STEADY SPEED, WHEN ATTEMPTING TO LIGHTLY OR MODERATELY ACCELERATE, A LACK OF POWER IS NOTICED DUE TO TORQUE CONVERTER LOCKUP. ENGINE COMES CLOSE TO STALLING OUT. IN MAY 2016, I WAS INFORMED GM ENGINEERING WAS AWARE OF THE PROBLEM WERE WORKING ON A SOLUTION. DURING A FOLLOWUP VISIT IN SEPTEMBER 2016, I WAS INFORMED THAT GM NO LONGER CONSIDERED IT A PROBLEM AND WERE NO LONGER WORKING ON A SOLUTION. GM TAC # 8-2110571583. THERE HAS NOT BEEN A SPECIFIC ACCIDENT RELATED TO A LACK OF ACCELERATION WHEN EXPECTING TO ACCELERATE, THERE REMAINS THE POTENTIAL ESPECIALLY WHEN MERGING INTO FREEWAY TRAFFIC DURING PEAK TRAVEL TIMES. THE GM DISTRICT SERVICE MGR DROVE THE TRUCK AND INFORMED ME THAT THERE WAS NO ISSUE AS HE DROVE THE SAME VEHICLE TYPE AND HAD THE SAME PERFORMANCE. PER RECENT GM MARKETING, THE 2017 GMC CANYON FEATURES A COMPLETELY RE-DESIGNED TRANSMISSION. I BELIEVE THIS ISSUE WITH THE TRANSMISSION IS A SAFETY ISSUE CAUSED BY A POORLY DESIGNED TRANSMISSION.

THE POWER STEERING ON MY 2015 GMC CANYON HAS FAILED REPEATEDLY WHILE DRIVING IN DIFFERENT ROAD CONDITIONS. IN ONE CASE, I WAS GOING STRAIGHT ON A SURFACE STREET AT LOW SPEED. HOWEVER, IN ANOTHER I WAS CORNERING THROUGH A HIGHWAY OFF-RAMP AT APPROXIMATELY 45 MPH. WHEN THE POWER STEERING FAILS, THERE IS A WARNING CHIME AND THE POWER STEERING AND STABILITY CONTROL WARNING LIGHTS ACTIVATE SIMULTANEOUSLY. IT BECOMES EXTREMELY CHALLENGING TO STEER, AND IN THE CASE OF CORNERING AT SPEED THE VEHICLE PULLS IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OF THE TURN [IE, IT PULLS TOWARDS DANGER]. PULLING OVER AND RESTARTING THE VEHICLE HAS 'SOLVED' THE PROBLEM EACH TIME, ALBEIT TEMPORARILY. I TOOK THE VEHICLE TO A GM DEALER TO GET FIXED, BUT THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY RELATED MECHANICAL ISSUES OR GM PROVIDED SW PATCHES THAT WOULD FIX THE PROBLEM. SO THE GM DEALER HAD ME LEAVE WITHOUT FIXING ANY OF THE UNDERLYING CONDITIONS THAT CAUSED THE POWER STEERING FAILURE. NEEDLESS TO SAY, THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND APPARENTLY WIDE-SPREAD ISSUE BASED ON THE NUMBER OF SIMILAR COMPLAINTS I HAVE READ.

I HAVE SAME COMPLAINT AS SEVERAL OTHERS IN THE NHTSA CUSTOMER COMPLAINT SECTION. BASICALLY THE TRANSMISSION FAILS TO DOWNSHIFT AT LOWER SPEEDS CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO HESITATE WHEN ACCELERATION IS NEEDED UNTIL IT DOWNSHIFTS APPROPRIATELY. PRESSING DOWN HARD ON THE ACCELERATOR WILL RESULT IN A DOWNSHIFT, BUT THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS MANEUVER IN CROWED ROAD CONDITIONS. I HAVE ALSO GONE TO MANUAL TRANSMISSION MODE BUT THIS IS ALSO POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN CROWDED CONDITIONS AND CERTAINLY INCONVENIENT. SEEMS THE VOLUME OF THIS COMPLAINT WARRANTS A GMC RESPONSE.

FOR MONTHS MY GMC CANYON WILL START FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, I WILL DRIVE UP TP THE FIRST OR SECOND STOP LIGHT AND MY TRUCK WILL BEGIN TO SHAKE AND ACT LIKE IT WILL SHUT OFF. SOMETIME IT WILL DIE OTHER TIMES IT JUST SHAKES. I TOOK IT INTO THE DEALERSHIP AND THEY COULD NOT RESOLVE THE ISSUE. THIS USUALLY OCCURS 2-3 TIMES PER WEEK.

ON COLD STARTS, THE ENGINE WILL STALL AT FIRST STOP. TYPICALLY THIS IS AT THE FIRST STOP LIGHT OR STOP SIGN IN THE MORNING ON THE WAY TO WORK. THIS IS BEGINNING TO HAPPEN SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK. IT ALSO HAS HAPPENED AFTER SITTING FOR SEVERAL HOURS. IT ONLY APPEARS TO HAPPEN WHEN STARTING THE TRUCK AFTER THE ENGINE HAS COOLED. PRIOR TO STALLING, THE ENGINE WILL HESITATE AND THE RPMS DROP UNTIL ULTIMATELY STALLING. I HAVE CALLED THE GMC NUMBER AND HAVE ASKED THE DEALERSHIP TO CHECK IT OUT. IT CANNOT BE DUPLICATED BY THEM AND THEY SAY GM HAS NOT ISSUED A RECALL OR BULLETIN TO REPAIR.

WHILE DRIVING 70 MPH ON THE HIGHWAY, THE POWER STEERING SEIZED, THE WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATED, AND A "VEHICLE SERVICING AND DRIVE CAREFULLY" MESSAGE WAS DISPLAYED AND A CHIME WAS HEARD. THE VEHICLE WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO STEER AND TURN. THE VEHICLE WAS STOPPED TURNED OFF, RESTARTED AND DROVE TO DEALER WITHOUT ISSUES. I SEE THAT OTHER OWNERS HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS SAME ISSUE. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THIS ISSUE CAUSES AN ACCIDENT..