Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| POWER TRAIN - MANUAL TRANSMISSION | |||
| 07/28/2011 | 36899 | ||
| The clutch in my 2010 pontiac vibe gt failed while driving at 45 mph. the car would rev but with virtually no acceleration ability. luckily i was on a rural road and able to pull over. my vehicle has 36k miles on it. i have 31 years of manual transmission driving experience and i have never had to replace a clutch...especially with this little amount of mileage. online, there are at least 5 pages of complaints from different gm customers dating from as far back as 2004 giving their own accounts of the same low mileage clutch failures on their pontiac vibe gts. gm has done nothing to correct this obvious and potentially deadly design flaw. they have stood by their cliams of 'user error' in each and every case, regardless of the driver's experience and skill with clutch driving. some of those accounts claim that their service managers admitted to them that there is a flaw in the car but they told the customer that they cannot do anything about it because gm will not own up to their design mistake. | |||