Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL | |||
| 07/06/2012 | 111148 | 1 | |
| Traction control light comes on and causes the car to shift very rough and steering wheel jerks. *tr | |||
| 07/06/2012 | 111148 | ||
| Traction control light comes on and causes the car to shift very rough and steering wheel jerks. | |||
| 05/20/2011 | 80000 | ||
| I own a 2006 chevrolet cobalt ls sedan. this car every year like clock work has to either have a new transmission put into it, or has shifting problems. the car will be fine for about a year and then it struggles to shift gears and it will be subtle. then it slowly starts to feel like the transmission is slipping when u reverse and then put it back into drive it slides back before it begins to move forward again. this car is only 5 years old but has had 3 transmissions in it's life time, and it's starting to feel like it's going for its 4th. | |||
| 10/06/2010 | 102000 | ||
| Chevy cobalt 2006 car stalls when stopped at a red light. it keeps getting worse. the electronic control module needs to be replaced to fix the problem. but this is a safety issue and should be on a recall. i have read on the internet of other people complaining of the same issue. | |||
| 09/13/2009 | 64000 | 1 | |
| Last aug 2009 i was living my drive way and they steer wheel got stuck and i got trapped between my trees. i didn't know what happen so i just assumed it was me being a bad driver. two weeks ago i was driving in a street and the bell in the computer start ringing and gave me a message power steer then the steer while got stuck again. i didn't know what to do so i stop and called a towing truck to get my car and take it to my mechanic. my mechanic kept it for a day and said that cobalts 2006 and 2007 have this problem the computer does not communicate with the engine and that's what happen. i called general motors and they asked me how many miles i had in the car which is 64,000 and then they told me i had to take it to one of his dealer shops to make sure. i told the lady to be sure they were going to consider this because i have to pay and then they will decide if it was a safety issue. i did pay a lot of money and they say -you are not under guarantee- i got mad because they knew since the beginning how many miles i had. now if i turn left or right the steer wheel get stuck so i have to stop and turn off the car. after that i can drive ok. is always dangerous if i'm in a busy street or highway. to repair they want $1,000.00 that i don't have. the lady who helped me her name is mariana jimenez and she told the they are going to pay for a gas leak that i had in this year too. because that is a re-call. she said she will send the papers to get reimburse but she never did. the case number for the problem i have now from general motors is 71759207211. they are only recognizing the problem with the gas leaking because that was a safety issue how is not a safety issue driving and the steer wheel gets stuck? so my complain is for the gas leaking that i pay myself and didn't get reimburse and the current problem. the chevrolet shop wrote this in the invoice i paid performed diag system check-u2107/u2100/co475 stored in pscm silate to internal pscm motor failure. *tr | |||
| 07/25/2009 | 72000 | 1 | |
| Power steering warning light comes on while driving , power steering immediately stops working, once you turn the car off it resets but no more then 5 minutes and it fails again! i luckily have not had an accident yet while this occurs but there is definitely potential for one, i brought the car to the dealer and they want to charge me over 800 dollars to replace the steering column, which i've heard is not the problem. *tr | |||