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December 3rd, at am. My son has a GMC Sierra. All the above you describe have been happening lately to him and they can not find the problem.

The computer resets after sitting off for a hour and it runs great for about 4 days. No one can find the problem. December 6th, at pm.

Not a happy camper as I see my future sitting at a dealership!!!!! Around miles now with no repeated issues arising.

I replaced the cable and it stopped after hearing scratchy sounds in the speakers as cable went bad? Its hard to say,, but they wont be much help in trying to identify it-.

December 9th, at pm. I have a Chevy equinox with 50, miles. The Stabilitrack light comes one, I loose engine power it even states on my system that power reduction if I stop it will shake. If I turn it off and back on the light will go away and just randomly while driving come back on. Stopped by the shop as my engine light is on, they pulled the code and say it is the throttle body.

December 16th, at pm. I have a Chevy Equinox with 83K miles on it. Low nad behold, over the warranty and just purchased it less than a year ago. My Stabilitrak light comes on, along with the malfunction light and I get power rudction also. Funny thing is, my husband bought a Silverado and in 2 months his did exactly the same thing a year ago. His was covered under warranty and the dealership stated it was a CO2 sensor. The engine power reduction is so dangerous when your driving down the interstate.

Liability for GMAC waiting to happen. Sounds like several different things can cause this same reaction out of the vehicle. December 21st, at pm. December 22nd, at am. I own a Pontiac Torrent which I purchased new, the stabilitrac light would come on and go off at random since the first week of ownership.

The dealerships service dept. The vehicle is going back to the dealership. I have read many comments from people who have spent large amounts of money to resolve this problem to no avail. December 23rd, at pm. I have a GMC Acadia with k miles. Many times randomly on the highway and local driving the stabilitrack light comes one, I loose engine power warning message and beeps rough idle. Very dangerous when on the highway with kids in the back. I have to pull over, stop the suv, I have about 45 seconds to do this.

If I turn it off and back on the suv the light will go away temporarily before coming back on randomly. I also stopped by the shop as my engine light is on.

Very dangerous…. December 31st, at pm. I am having the same issue with my Buick Enclave. I have all the service invoices. This morning I was going about 60mph and seconds to get to the shoulder when the engine powered down. Can someone get me in touch with an attorney? I am so done with this car! January 7th, at pm. I bought it 1. I like the look of the truck but come on… Let me know if I have any recourse, outside of just trading it in for a Tacoma. After replacing the throttle body on my GMC Acadia the issue was solved.

No more stabilitrak warning messages, No more engine reducing power at highway speed messages, No more pulling over at high speeds to shut the suv off and restart to temporarily reset the issue.

Very dangerous as I stated. Its been 18 days now. Looks simple enough to replace yourself. January 8th, at am. I am having this same issue. I have a LTZ Silverado with ,k miles on it. I drive this truck every day for work but went on vacation over the holiday and when I got back the problem started. The check engine light was also on and the engine was running rough. I shut the engine off and pulled the manual out which told me to wait 15 seconds and restart the vehicle, which I did.

Everything seemed fine for a day or so. The problem occured again and is very random. It happened to me 8 times in a span of 15 miles this morning on my way to work. I thought I would do some searching first before I take it to a dealership. Form the sensus above, it seems that the throttle body is the most common fix for this problem??

I am in the truck now as I am typing this and have shut the traction control off and have been idling with no issues for an hour now but I am sure it will happen again.

If you all could tell me what the common fix has been on this issue would greatly be appreciated before I spend a boat load of money with no fix. Thank you in advance.

January 9th, at pm. It also happen while driving, usually during coasting situations while going down hills. Why the loss of power??? January 11th, at am. Had around miles on the truck when the service stab system light came on. The message came on that morning andwent off that evening. At around miles the light came on, on the way to work, but this time it had a reduced power message along with it.

This put my truck in what they call limp mode which is very violent when this happens. I had to disconnect the battery cables to clear the fault so I could get it to the dealership. Take in mind this is a new vehicle and I am now having to take off work to take it to the dealership. Got it to the dealership and they could not find anything wrong with it? They sent me home in a truck that was obviously going to break down? I was not happy but I had to get to work.

That same evening the message came back along with the reduced engine power message. The truck again went into limp mode and started violently shaking and running rough. Took it to the dealership and they said it was a bare wire that had faulted? Take in mind this is now my second time to the dealership and I am taking more time off work for a new vehicle?

The truck now has miles on and the service stab system light is back on. The light came on, on the way to work and went off on the way home. The truck is currently at the dealership and I am waiting on what they are going to blame it on now? This is the third time it has been to the dealership and the third time i have had to take time off work for a new truck? The dealership acts as if though they have never heard of this problem and it is normal that a brand new truck should be in the shop?

January 11th, at pm. Even though it was not under warranty, they still gave me a car to drive. They really took care of me. They replaces something having to do with the Throttle Body. It was all good until last night when the samething happened again. I really think this is a problem that GM needs to focus on. The dealership told me to keep my paperwork on the repair just incase of a recall and I can get reimburst. I almost went to another make of vehicle for this problem but I a very loyal to GM but if this is not resolved soon I might not be anymore.

January 13th, at am. They did disconnect my Remote Starter and told me where it was connnected was wrong. If I do, I will post it on this message board.

January 14th, at pm. Same thimg here with my sierra ssr, had a problem at 90,mi took it it they said the slipyok was bad,regreased it. Now that ive hit ,mi my engine is running very rough with the servive stabilitrak,service traction control lights coming on…anyone have any advice on what i should do about this?

January 15th, at pm. I have a Chevy Silverado Z71 that the stabili trak and brake light come on everytime i drive the truck and it is below 55 degrees. I have asked the dealer about service bulletins and they said none exist and Chevy has never heard of this problem.

The dealer I bought the truck from just shrugs me off so I have an appointment this Friday at another dealer in town. I have over 15 videos of this happening and numerous picturs where they can see the outside temp, miles on the truck and that the truck is running and moving.

The truck just tripped 10, miles this morning and this has been going on for over 4 months and about miles. I love the truck but not very happy with Chevys service. If the other dealer gets the problem resolved I will let everyone know what they found.

January 21st, at pm. I have a gmc Sierra recently i had a headlight burn out, so i replaced it, after i replaced the bulb both blinkers started to blink fast as if i need to change bulbs. Ive checked, all lights are functioning. Then today im at lunch sitting in park listening to the radio and all of a sudden my truck starts vibrating and shaking like im driving a tractor or something.

Turn off the truck and turn it back on it stop until i get to another parking spot at my office and it starts again. I has been off for about 3 hours now, going to leave work soon to see if it will start. This really pisses me off. I think i am done with GM! And i just went out of warranty how damn wonderful! January 22nd, at am. My Sierra, 4. Temp was C so I figured it was just a cold weather thing.

Stopped for 30 min for coffee, and started it up, no lights, no problem. Drove home from work, no problems C. Same thing happened today C again. Have not noticed any engine reduction as I am only doing city driving. I traded a Silverado with 4.

Never had a problem with the Silverado, just needed more cabin space, and a bit more power. I may regret that choice. I had this issues 2 times occur in one year. January 22nd, at pm. January 24th, at pm. January 25th, at am. It just started happening to me in the last month or so on a chev express cargo van.

I also thought was just a cold weather problem as that is when it always seemed to happen. January 25th, at pm. January 27th, at am. To make a long story a little shorter, I am some what a little mechanically inclined and know how a throttle body works.

Knowing that a throttle body has a butterfly valve in it that opens wider and wider the more you press the gas, I decided to rev the engine up quit a few times to work the butterfly open and closes thinking maybe it was sticking which would trigger the TPS to trip.

I did not just hold the gas pedal down but instead just revved the engine up roughly about 10 times. Do not do this until the engine is warmed up and has sufficient oil in the top of the engine as it could cause engine damage!! I have not had an issue since with my truck. Please let me know if this works for you as I really would like to keep track of this not only to save people money but to keep them safe. Just to add to my last post: One these newer vehicles, the gas pedal is linked to the throttle body by wire, not by a cable like older vehicles.

Boy I miss the simple old cars When you press the gas pedal and the butterfly in the throttle body is not opening to the position it is programmed to open to, it trips the TPS. This is designed to happen to protect your engine from whatever?. All the posts that I have read about this problem has been posted during winter months.

Which leads me to beleive that the butterfly is freezing and causes it to stick. While reading these posts I was trying to come up with a common denominator and that was one of the things I found. The other thing was that it was random and once reset by shutting off the car for a couple minutes it cleared up. So I figured that it must not be a permanent problem and the TPS would work again fine after the reset. Toyota may seem to have a lot of recalls but at least they back their product up and take car of their customers.

Just disappeared. Just back from dealer they replaced the throttle positioning sensor free of charge on km van. This is at a canadian dealership but I hope it helps all. January 27th, at pm. I have avalanche with mile on it and its giving me trouble with stablink light was at the dealer twice no idea so I am going to replace throttle body my self and send bill to GM from attorney thans. January 28th, at pm. Chris Major.

My 09 Sierra has done it six times in the past week. It has been C here for awhile now. I think it is a cold weather problem. On your statement, does it give a refrence to a Special inspection, or maintenanvce order? I only have 65, KM, has only happened since it got cold out. It is an extended warranty, free repair up to 10 years from date vehicle entered service, regardless of ownership.

You are supposed to get a letter in the mail, but just take this info in, and get it done! January 29th, at am. February 6th, at am.

Just to let everyone know there is a problem on several of the GMC cars including the Terrain and Equinox. The PVC system freezes and the rear oil seal will blow. I blew the engine on my two year old Terrain and 5 days the rear oil seal. We have pictures of the papers he showed us documenting the problem.

We were told to get rid of the car, before the warranty is up and that the PVC system is a terrible design. There are NO recalls as of yet. February 10th, at pm. I have a GMC Sierra just started to experience these same issues. But I have also noticed that after driving awhile I get steam rolling out from the grille as if overheating. Anyone experience this? And is this also tied to the throttle body sensor issue? February 14th, at pm.

This would be the second time for me. I am going to take this to a independent mechanic to get a second opinion. February 15th, at am. I have issues with my new silverado hd. When on any wet or snow covered surface truck is just digging in and moving sideways. February 19th, at pm. I have Acadia, service stabilitrak light has been coming in the engine is cutting out. We have k on the vehicle so no warranty. Anyway we went to an independent mechanic and they thought we should change the spark plugs and we had a coil out.

They replaced all of this today. Light still coming on and the car is running like junk. I just paid it off and was hoping to drive it a while! The mechanic recommended we get rid of the car! February 20th, at pm. I have a silverado with 86 km. Also with this, my engine has some shake like a tractor motor!

I just saw there is a recall on what it sounds to be my problem. February 26th, at pm. To update my stabilitrac message. I took my GMC Acadia to a dealer and they replaced a High pressure fuel pump and some other gizmos for Dealer gave me a new Acadia to use for the week. Car does run fine but power stearing sounds funny. February 28th, at am. ChrisMayor Which dealer did you go to?

March 23rd, at pm. I have a SRX which only has 17, miles. I do not drive it a lot however yesterday I drove my SRX instead of my other car and when I got to the stop light I felt a vibration like the entire truck was shaking and the StabiliTrak light came on so I turned around and headed back home.

This has never happen before. I immediately contacted by service manager at the car dealer where I purchased and explained what had just happened. He asked me did my engine light come on as well but I told him I was not sure because I was a little nervous of this happending. Does anyone know whether or not there have been any recalls from GM regarding this StabiliTrak error? I have search the website and there are all kinds of complaints regarding this but I do not see any recalls from GM regarding the StabiliTrak.

March 27th, at am. There are no other codes associated with the ABS or Stabilitrak system yet they are on constantly. March 29th, at am. April 1st, at am. I have a Chevrolet Equinox. During our heavy snowseason when driving through heavy snow my Stabilitrak lights were on.

Also, yesterday i drove miles and was driving through road with alot of hills. Again, my stabilitrak light came on?? What is going on?? GM needs to take care of this. April 2nd, at pm. I forced them to change my brake pedal switch after having this crap all winter. No problems in past week so far. April 15th, at pm. I thought i had one because they told me my payment was went to sign the papers and it was and he mumbled something about the warranty.

May 4th, at am. I have a Chevy Equinox that had power loss and stabilitrack light engine come on at miles. Being a recent widow and living in a very rural area I wanted a new dependable car. The car was in two dealerships for three weeks. Mechanics said they could find nothing wrong. Now have the car back and yesterday, light came on again at less than miles, in 70 degree weather.

Wish I had my old one back. Too bad the dealerships cant just acknowledge the problem and tell you about it instead of dancing around the problem. Shame on them. May 5th, at pm. Cindy: First and foremost, I am sorry for your loss. I would certainly take the time to speak to a Lemon Law firm in your area. May 16th, at am. I just purchased a Chevy cruze a few weeks ago and have had the Service Stabilitrak and Service traction Control errors popping up.

It feels like the entire car goes without power, including the power steering, for a few seconds then resumes. This was happening several times in a 15 mile trip to and from work. I am concerned with this being an ongoing problem.

Fortunately, the car is under warranty, but after reading all the above comments, it sounds like GM needs to make some changes. I have had a Pontiac Grand Prix, which is years old now and had issues. May 16th, at pm. Vicki: The next step would be to examine your lemon law rights. May 18th, at am. I just bought a GMC Yukon Xl and my stablitrac light and engine light will come off and on and sometimes it will stay sometimes it will go away and drive perfect.

It has , miles on it I just made my first payment, it has no warranty and we just cleaned the throttle body, new plugs, new wires, new air filter It will sometime blow out a huge cloud of white smoke and the shop wants to charge me to find out what is wrong with it.

What can I do. How much money needs to be put out before it can be considered a lemon law?? Please help. May 20th, at pm. My husband and I bought a used Chevrolet Equinox from a small local dealer in our town. It has about 80, miles. The first couple of days everything ran smooth. After about a week we started noticing the car would jerk back and forth when driving miles per hour and it jerked really bad going up the ramp on the highway.

We brought this issue to the owners of the dealership and they asked us to take it to their mechanic so he can work on it. The mechanic said he replaced a spark plug and is ready for pickup. For about 2 days it was all good then our frustration is worse. Someone please help. I dont know what to do anymore?

May 22nd, at am. Moni: Sadly, unless you bought the car at a GM dealer or it has the remainder of the GM powertrain warranty and you are going back to the GM shop for repairs, this is out of our realm. May 23rd, at am. May 27th, at pm. I have an 09 Avalanche and on my way home today the stabilization control, traction control and reduce engine speed light all came on. Just about got me into a car crash when the engine reduced speed. I limped home and luckily I had a service appointment scheduled for Thurs.

This is the first time it has happened. Not cold out as in some of the other posts so not sure what happened. Hopefully GM will kindly help me. I will let you know what they say once I get it in and have them check it. I called GM customer assistance and asked about any recalls due to the trifecta we are all experiencing stabilizer light, traction light and engine light. I provided my VIN and they advised that there were no recalls on my vehicle.

Luckily I am still within the parameter, I will let my service advisor know on Thurs. However, the caveat is that they diagnose this as the problem. I will let you all know after Thurs. I kept the chat since it appears there are others have reoccurring issues, I will document my attempts at resolving the issue right from the get go. Thanks to those that have posted previously, it was helpful! May 29th, at pm. We purchased a Buick Enclave brand new. We have had nothing but problems with it — one thing after the next.

After less than 60, miles our entire family was stranded in Pittsburgh for over a week on a trip home from Buffalo to Charlotte, NC because the transmission gave out on the highway. We lost complete power and we were lucky that our family was not killed on the highway had my husband not reacted so well. The car had to stay in PA for over a month while they supposedly replaced the transmission.

It took me over a month but they agreed to fix it. Now, six months later, I am having yet more problems…. ABS light, stabilitrak lights are on and the car is bucking and losing power when idling. I have had it with car!!!! I am hoping that this fixes my problem permanently and that my posts help the next person, I know your posts helped me.

May 30th, at pm. So I picked up my truck at 1pm all fixed and drove it to work not 5km away. When I started it up after work…bam! The Stabilization Control, traction control and engine light came on again. Back to GM and waiting for their new diagnosis…visit 2. May 31st, at pm. So they replaced the acceleration sensor this time and so far so good, no lights. People know that GM knows this is a problem there are service bulletins out regarding these problems, those of you that have paid to have the throttle body sensor replaced — call GM and have your money refunded it is on an extended warranty.

I plan on calling them each time this problem occurs and I encourage all of you to as well. Thanks to John and Dave my problem is fixed for now.

Good luck to all of you. June 12th, at pm. We own a Acadia It is the biggest pile of junk we have ever owned, with less than miles the stabillitrack light randomly comes on, the plastic on the seats is falling apart, the AC system has a leak somewhere and needed to be recharged, doors lock randomly.

The dealer tried twice fix the stabillitrack but all we get is lip service and a warning light that still comes on. GM never again. June 22nd, at am. My stabilitrack light has been coming on randomly while idling at a light or while driving at traffic speeds mph. When it occurs the vehicles shifts hard and the light goes off once i pick up speed. Ill take it to dealership Friday to see what bs they try to tell me. Clearly theres an issue with all their vehicles that they have no fix for or doing nothing about it to try and address.

June 29th, at pm. I have a cadillac escalade esv and i am getting all the same lights. It is very dangerous to drive being that it just stalls out in traffic. July 6th, at am. My Chevy Equinox with , miles started showing the Stabili Trak message yesterday. July 8th, at pm. I purchased a Chevy Cruze in December. After reading the previous comments I sincerely hope this does not become a long term headache.

Appointment is scheduled. July 10th, at pm. I have a Silverado Z71 with 20, miles. The vehicle never felt different when these lights came on. The dealer called today and stated that the motor was getting too much oil and they were replacing the pistons because of it. This is the second issue I have had with it as they already replaced a throttle sensor around 10, miles. I am fortunate to still have a warranty and now I know why GM now offers a 7 year extended warranty plan at the time of purchase.

I was smart enough to buy the 7 year , mile powertrain coverage. July 16th, at am. I have a Chev Captiva. I brought my vehicle in over a year ago, when it was still on warranty, because the service stabilitrak, service traction control lights come on intermittently and because the car would sometimes not move when I stepped on the gas and then would jump forward. I brought it in and they said it is the brake switch — I have no problem with the brakes. I am thinking of buying a FWD 4 Cylinder Equinox and want to know if this vehicle is made for flat towing.

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Related Questions. Start a new Chevrolet Equinox question. Own this car? Share your experience with others. Write a car review. Search Chevrolet Equinox Questions. They said that they accidentally charged me the warranty rates that they would charge back to GM for warranty work. Sounds like a load of B. Last time that I will have any work done there.

The bottom line is that the new thermostat did not fix the problem. If you search the Internet, you will see that the most reported "solution" is that you have a blown head gasket which costs in the thousands of dollars to fix.

The check is that you have brown crud in your engine coolant also. That's a load of crock also as the GM coolant will break down over time and form the crud naturally. That's another design flaw as they spec'd a coolant that will break down into crud and clog your heater and radiator core! Not a Blown Head Gasket The symptom that is repeatedly stated for a blown head gasket is a temperature gauge that slowly or rapidly rises from the cold position to hot and back again.

Sort of like a slow motion windshield wiper action but we're talking about the engine temperature gauge. That is a lot of B. As I found out, it all comes down to a poorly designed cooling system and interior heating system. The problem arises from the design of the cooling system. It is extremely difficult to bleed the air out of the system. It is difficult because the engineers didn't take into account that air is lighter than the coolant and that the coolant bleed screws are NOT at the highest point of the coolant system.

The heater hoses have paths that are higher than the engine block and trap air. It is like a roller coaster ride for the coolant path to get to the front heater core and again to the back heater core! The bleed screws are located too low to properly bleed the air out of the coolant!

Unusual Design The other issue is that this is the only engine of ever seen in 40 years of working on engines that has the water pump output split: one path goes to the heater core and a second path goes back to the engine intake manifold. This is highly unusual and tells me that they didn't design the heads properly for coolant flow. The water pump output is split between the intake manifold and heater cores - very unusual!

They are saying that the water pump doesn't have enough oomph to push the coolant all the way to the rear heater core. Air Locks The first problem is that the coolant system is extremely difficult to bleed the air out. If there is air in the system, a number of things can happen: Air trapped in the cylinder heads will turn prevent the coolant from circulating and turn to steam. Once the coolant turns to steam, it will expand and the coolant will flow until new colder coolant arrives.

The symptom of this is a temperature gauge that oscillates from cold to hot and back again - it will cycle. Depending on how much air is trapped in the heads will determine how fast or slow the temperature gauge will oscillate. Air trapped in the heater core lines will prevent coolant from flowing to the heater core. The symptom is no heat or very little heat.

If you have front and rear heaters, you may have only one of the heaters working: the front or the rear may have an air lock. One symptom that I found really odd, is that I will get a blast of hot air if I turn a sharp left corner. What happens is that the coolant is pushed to the right side of the engine due to momentum.

The right side is where the air lock is. Coolant will flow through the system until the van straightens out. And voila, hot air for a second or two. Bleeding the System The problem with bleeding the system is that air gets trapped in the heads on the passenger side of the engine. The air bleed screws are located lower than the highest points of the cooling system and are just not in the right position.

First step is when the engine is COLD, open up the radiator cap and make sure that the radiator is full of coolant. Top up the coolant reservoir to the cold line also. Put the rad cap back on. There's two methods that you can use to bleed the system, the cheap way which may or may not work and the costlier method.

The cheap way is to find a steep hill or a loading dock with a steep incline where you can park your vehicle on. The idea is that you want the front passenger side corner to be the highest point in the system.

Go to the rear driver's side of the vehicle if you have a rear heater and pump the two hoses that are located behind the rear wheel well. Bring a piece of cardboard or carpet to lie on while you do this. Pump the two hoses alternatively with the engine running like as if you are milking a cow. If there is air trapped, one hose will be hot and the other cold because there is an air lock due to the heater core being higher than the coolant lines.

After a while, usually when your forearms are aching, water will start to flow and both lines will be hot. Rear heater hoses located behind driver's side rear wheel These are the two rear hoses you pump like milking a cow.