Vehicle Speed Control Problems of Chevrolet Cavalier - part 2

In January 08 vehicle tach went reverse direction, then jumped erratically. In March 08 started showing 65 mph when vehicle doing 35. In may 08 speedometer started stopping at 20 mph when moving or when car shut off. In June 08 speedometer and tach have both started going in reverse direction. This is a 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier with 28000 miles, 2. 2 l with automatic transmission. I do not like the idea that while driving the car on a two lane road by the speedometer that we might be rear ended while driving to slow.

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2004 Chevrolet Cavalier instrument cluster; at first the temperature gauge showed hot causing us to pull over to the shoulder of the road and investigate, 27 years as an automotive technician kinda helped me come to the conclusion real quick it was not overheating, then the tachometer would go completely around and peg from the underside and that's where it is and has stayed, the speedometer ceased to work shortly after the tachometer went haywire and the fuel gauge also has its moments, sometimes it works and sometimes it don't and all of the check engine lights and service soon indicators have a mind of there own, the car has no trouble codes and there is no reason gm has't recalled these and other vehicles with the same instrument cluster problems, funny they sent me a letter on my 03 silverado cluster and I haven't had any problems with it but I look at all the complaints on the Cavaliers and no such recalls, you might ask why I haven't fixed it myself with all my experience and I will tell you right now, why should I have too? gm should step up to the plate and fix its faulty clusters it is dangerous for any of these informational items of the cluster to be faulty or inaccurate it can cause a motorist to travel at an unsafe speed causing an accident or to pull over onto the shoulder of the road and be at risk of being struck by another motorist from behind these are very dangerous situations, ask yourself how many people have been hurt or fatally injured because of the faulty clusters, who knows; but one would be one too many don't you think?.

In extreme heat or cold temperatures inside vehicle the speedometer will jump in intervals of five mph. Sometimes it will reset itself if left alone. If passes 70 mph mark it will continue rising until it pointed downward towards the odometer.

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The entire gage cluster no longer works and the speedometer was the first item to start failing while the car was still under warranty. The mechanics at the location where I bought the vehicle claimed restarting the car multiple times would reset the needle back to where it belongs. This worked for a while, but I have since had to replace the item on my own for the same issue twice.

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Vehicle's idle stuck at 2500 rpm's, making it difficult to brake. Other times vehicle's rpm's are so low the vehicle stalls. When they are too high the only correction is to engage the clutch and turn the vehicle off. Chevy dealers can't duplicate the problem, so they do nothing. The problem is intermittent.

The speedometer sticks on my 2003 Chevrolet Cavalier. For example, if it is stuck at 40 mph while standing still, on acceleration it will rise according to the speed attained.

This 2000 Cavalier was purchased Feb. 2006, the needle was going at a higher rpm constantly. Finally, the other day it went up 5000 rpm's. I brought the car to my garage and several valves were replaced. This did not correct the problem. The computer was just replaced. Hopefully the problem is solved. This is a dangerous situation.

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While shifting out of gear and stopping, the car on its own it revved up to 5000 rpms. At first I thought the acclerator was stuck and attempted to lift it up with my foot, and found out that was not it. About 15 seconds later it stopped on its own.

2003 Chevrolet Cavalier gear became stuck wide open. When using the passing gear the engine stuck open. The consumer forced to placed the vehicle into neutral and coasted to side of the road. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who indicated that the idle valve was stuck.

1/2/05-car was stopped at an intersection when it began to lunge into traffic, car was put in neutral where it continued to lunge until a right turn was made, car is in service today 1/3/05.

Speedometer stays at between 15 and 20 mph when vehicle is not in motion. When driving at about 25 mph, gauge says speed is 75mph. Other times, gauge stays at 0 and vehicle is in motion. Dt.

When leaving doctor's office and turning right onto busy 4-lane highway car accelerated from creeping speed to full throttle. When I applied the brakes, they made a terrible sound and went clear to the floor before stopping. I was scared to death and could have been killed. Dims 11 ivoq entry posted after 12/12/02 to artemis------769747.

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While putting vehicle in crusie control gas pedal went all the way to the floor, and vehicle started to accelerate. Contacted dealer.

Intermittently vehicle stalls at various speeds when accelerating and decelerating without warning. Dealer has not been able to duplicate or correct the problem.

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Upon exiting grocery store parking lot, the vehicle accelerated at a great rate of speed. Unable to get control of the vehicle as this happened within a matter of seconds, vehicle jumped cement parking blocks and vehicle landed on parking blocks. Insurance company declared vehicle total loss. Collision repair shop stated neither manufacturer nor insurance company will go through vehicle to determine what went wrong due to "time is money. " needless to say I am out of a vehicle, balance remaining was only approximately $3,700. 00. Looked up recalled vehicles, similar to id numbers 95v201000 and 87v011000. As stated, this all happened so abruptly very hard to pinpoint exactly what went wrong. I am reporting this in the hope that this does not happen to another Cavalier owner who may not be as fortunate as we were.

This part failure caused the vehicle to accelerate and decelerate forcing the driver to have to ride the brakes to keep the vehicle under control.

Serious accident may be related to this or similar part. Was told car had accelerated quickly, and throttle increased rapidly. Please investigate> I have seen several complaints on your web site with this type of problem. This may be a saftey problem.

Consumer made right turn into drivewayand turned steering back to left, at that time, vehicle took off and consumer lost control.

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Consumer was driving at approximately 60 mph when the vehicle suddenly started to accelerate to over 100 mph. Vehicle would not stop even by applying brakes. Had to pull emergency brakes and put it in park.

Vehicle will accelerate and stick. Consumer has to turn off vehicle to stop it.

When putting the vehicle in any gear or on an incline, the vehicle will accelerate as soon as taking foot off the brake. Dealer is aware of the problem. Not able to correct the problem.

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I have had several episodes over the past 6 years of my car accelerating without me stepping on the gas. In fact, it usually happens when I have first started the car, and am stepping on the brakes when pulling out of driveway, or coming to a stop at traffic lights, etc. My brakes can barely stop the car, and the only way I can get the car to go back to normal is to put it in park once I have stopped. Immediately I hear the engine stop revving, and then when I put the car in drive it's working normally.

While driving, vehicle slowed down and would not accelerate over 35 mph.

Vehicle accelerates and will not stop when applying the brakes, consumer has taken vehicle to dealer several times but they can not remedy the problem.

Vehicle (engine?) will make a rattling noise around 1000-1900 rpm either when accelerating at that rpm, or decelerating at that rpm. Dealer cannot find problem after 2 visits. States it's not loud enough and should be ignored.

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