general problems of the 2010 Chevrolet Equinox - part 2

Transmission needs to be replaced at 109,000 miles. No warning, and car has been well maintained.

The automatic transmission completely stopped working while the vehicle was in motion. A texas certified repair shop diagnosed the issue and concluded that the automatic transmission needed to be entirely replaced at a cost of $3,000.

Oil consumption. I have to put oil in it every two week because oil is empty. It does not leak and the vehicle is part of a class action lawsuit 4 oil consumption issues. I called Chevrolet they only want to cover half the parts to repair which will cost me an additional $3,000. I have already replaced the timing chain at $1,800 and the transmission at another $3,700.

Engine loses power abruptly, power train light and check engine light on.

The contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. While driving 30 mph, the vehicle inadvertently shifted into neutral. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic where it was diagnosed with a transmission wave plate failure and the transmission needed replacement. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified and had the vehicle towed to terryville Chevrolet (302 main st, terryville, CT 06786 (860) 506-6404) where it was diagnosed that the transmission needed replacement. The vehicle was still not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted again and informed the contact that the vehicle was out of warranty. The contact stated that the manufacturer offered no further assistance and opened a case. The failure mileage was 41,000. The VIN was unavailable.

The contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. While driving 55 mph, the vehicle independently decelerated without warning. The vehicle was towed to bomnin Chevrolet (11701 sw 152nd st, miami, FL 33177) where it was diagnosed that the housing needed to be replaced and the transmission was overhauled. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and did not assist. The VIN was unknown. The approximate failure mileage was 87,540.

Tl the contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. While driving various speeds, the engine indicator illuminated. The contact stated that the vehicle was not performing properly and felt sluggish. An independent mechanic replaced the transmission and the timing chain. Trapp Chevrolet in houma, louisiana was made aware of the failure. The manufacturer was also made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 100,000.

Beginning around 30,000 miles I began experiencing a clunking sound and jerking when the transmission would shift from 2nd to 3rd gear. I took it into the dealership multiple times and was told they could not duplicate the problem. I was told that it was because I was always driving in eco mode. Even out of eco mode I still experienced the clunk/jerk. Once the warranty ran out I was unable to take it in and pay the diagnostic fee to be told nothing was wrong. Recently I noticed more slipping especially when accelerating to enter traffic on busy interstate causing hesitation and danger when trying to merge at high speeds. After getting off the highway and crawling home, I parked the vehicle without incident. After parking upon trying to shift into gear it refused to shift at all. Towed to local mechanic and was told the transmission was out, had towed to gm dealership. Battling gm now trying to get assistance with replacement since this is a common issue and it was acting up before warranty expired. Gm should be ashamed for not fixing this common problem.

I have a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox and on July 21st, 2017 it would not go into reverse. After doing some research online I've seen that many others have had the same problem that I have been experiencing. No 3rd gear/no reverse. It says it has a wave plate that often breaks and shoots shattered pieces into the transmission, all without any warning or suspicion that anything could be wrong. I called the finance company which then l then led me to gm customer service telling me there were no recalls or information about anything. It is now October 3rd, 2017 and my car has been sitting in the same parking space (cannot reverse to get out of parking spot) with a full tank of gas. I urge anyone who experiences any problem to report it. I need help and I need it ASAP!!!.

The contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. The contact stated that the vehicle experienced hesitation and jerking. The contact also stated that the vehicle experienced a lack of engine power. The vehicle was towed to the residence. The vehicle was then towed to a transmission specialist where it was diagnosed that the transmission had malfunctioned and needed to be replaced. The dealer or manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 94,143.

Let me start off by saying that I am one of many having the same trouble with my 2010 chevy Equinox. On Jan. 21, 2015 I was hit by a young driver totaling my 2002 s10 crew cab. I feel this truck saved my life. In need of a safe vehicle I found myself at bowman Chevrolet purchasing a certified 2010 chevy Equinox with less than 41000 miles. At that time I received 24 months of oil changes/routine maintenance plus road side assistance and bumper to bumper for 12months. This vehicle seemed great till my first oil change and maintenance. In less than 3 months I took it in for service they said it couldn't be serviced. I apparently bought a canadian vehicle. Called bowman about the issue and was told to bring it back to them ( over an hr from home) at this time I mentioned a few things I felt were issues (my car would run on after shut off, would roll backwards in drive and shifting would pause between gears). About a month later I got my car back, new dashboard with a few scratches and a good chip in the windshield. Wasn't happy but they said all was good. Until the next time I had to take it in, still having run ons when I shut off the car and shifting problems along with a few minor things( I was told was not covered but should have been still under what I was promised by the 12 months bumper to bumper) over the next 21 months of my warranties I continued to have many issues with my car. Never fully fixed each time I took it in and being told many times they wont do the recalls because its on a canadian car not my now american car. On July 13, 2017 driving on 96 in construction and rush hr traffic with my grandson the transmission was losing gears at one point the car stopped abruptly. We barely made it home! drove it to dealer next morning only had 1st gear. Apparently this is a known problem. Help us all!.

The contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. While driving 5 mph pulling into a service station, the vehicle started to jerk violently. The contact shifted the gear into park. When she attempted to shift the gear into reverse, the gear shifter failed to go into reverse. The engine warning indicator illuminated with failure code: p0776. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic (fisher transmission) where it was diagnosed that the piston ring, snap ring, and 3-5r wave plate were detached with metal shelving and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and informed the contact that the vehicle was not covered under the warranty. The manufacturer did not offer further assistance. The approximate failure mileage was 113,000.

The contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. While driving at a low speed in rush hour traffic, the accelerator pedal was depressed; however, the vehicle failed to respond. After approximately two seconds, the transmission engaged and the vehicle slammed into gear. The contact was able to get the vehicle off of the roadway safely. The contact stated that vehicle was cycled off and back on and it operated normally momentarily; however, the failure recurred. Also, while attempting to traverse a hill, the transmission became inoperable and caused the vehicle to roll backwards. The vehicle was towed to bill kay Chevrolet (located at 601 ogden Ave, lisle, IL 60532; tel: 603-968-2900) to be diagnosed. The contact stated that the vehicle was currently still being diagnosed. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 57,000.

Driving on highway snap ring in transmission broke and jammed in gears causing car to suddenly stop and near accident,,,,known problem in this 6 speed auto.

Having transmission problems , it wont drive frontwards .

While driving on city streets, my gas pedal became unresponsive. The car began to slow down. Unable to keep my speed, I was unable to make a stoplight and had to stop. While my foot was on the brakes, the rpm for my vehicle were steadily at 6-7000. As the light turned green, I put my foot on the gas pedal, received a jolt as if the car was accelerating, but was slowly making my way up to 20 mph. As the time took near 30 seconds to make the climb on a flat road to 20 mph, I decided for my safety to hit my emergency flashers. Around that time, the check engine light came on. I pulled to a side street and hit 'onstar'. They were able to give me two codes that appeared. P0776 and p0700. While talking to onstar, my car was in park and again the engine was pushing 7000 rpms. I was barely able to make it to my house as the car was barely able to maintain it's speed. The next morning I was curious if I was able get the car out of my driveway or if it could move in a forward motion. I was forced to push my car out of my driveway as I could not go in reverse at all and again I noticed that the car could barely move forward. After having my car returned from specialist in transmissions, they gave me pictures of what they found. Which I included five with the complaint. The issue after talking to the dealership is a very common problem and by reading those two codes were able to instruct me the parts that broke inside the transmission without opening it up or checking the transmission fluid.

The contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. While driving approximately 35 mph, the check engine warning indicator illuminated. The accelerator pedal was depressed and the vehicle started to decelerate with the engine rpms at 6,000 when the contact removed his foot from the accelerator pedal. In addition, the vehicle failed to reverse and the "d" on the instrument panel was blinking. The vehicle was taken to a dealer, but was not diagnosed or repaired. The contact also stated that onstar produced codes p0776 and p0700. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 79,300.

I own a 2010 chevy Equinox. I was having some issues with my stabilitrak, abs breaks and my all wheel drive. I took it to the dealership and they hooked it up to the computer. They told me I needed a new right front hub and my catalytic converter replaced. So I made an appointment to have the catalytic converter taken care of as it is a problem chevy pays for. The next day I was driving to work and I noticed my car wasn't shifting. I stopped and had a tow to the dealership. They fixed the converter and put a speed sensor in my transmission because my car simply wouldn't move. I picked up my car after them having it for two weeks. That day I noticed it was shifting extremely hard going from 3rd to 4th gear. I purchased a new hub and a new wheel speed sensor and had them installed. While leaving the garage that installed these new parts I stopped at a red light. When it turned green I pushed the gas peddle and my car just sat there and revved. I turned off and back on and was able to get it back to the garage and there it sat, refusing to do anything but revv. Since this has started I have done some research and found many complaints of the exact same problem for the same make and model. If this is a common problem within this specific transmission I think it needs to be looked into.

The contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. While driving approximately 35 mph, the vehicle jerked and a warning indicator illuminated. The vehicle later shut down in the middle of the road and was towed to a dealer. The dealer diagnosed and replaced the transmission. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and stated that there was no recall. The failure mileage was approximately 60,000.

The contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. While driving 10 mph, while the accelerator pedal was depressed, the vehicle failed to accelerate without warning. The vehicle was towed to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the reverse snap ring failed and the transmission needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 88,889.

I experienced sudden deceleration while driving on the interstate in winter conditions. Many near accidents occurred while I struggled to maintain control and exit the interstate as soon as possible. Loud knocking from the engine and a strong gas smell immediately followed. The engine stalled several times when I came to a complete stop, such as intersections as I went straight to a nearby Chevrolet dealer. I was informed the rear main seal blew out causing a sudden loss of oil pressure. They also said this happened due to high positive pressure in the crankcase due to a frozen or blocked pcv valve. Gm is aware of the issue as stated in the general motors service bulletin 14882. However, gm says my VIN does not apply in this case. Due to the severity of the issue, I felt it was important to let someone know so other people with similar vehicles could be notified of the extreme hazard.

We were just getting to the end of highway entry ramp and we could not gain speed and the engine revved up very high beofre it started slowing down. Put the car in manual mode but could not shift into 3rd gear. We were forced into entering the highway at roughly 30mph.

While driving on city streets the car would not accelerate even though the rpms where climbing. It finally coasted the remaining 2 blocks home where all gears except 2nd were completely gone. The vehicle will have to be towed to the dealership for a $4500. 00 bill to replace the transmission. This vehicle has already had the motor, fuel injection system, and timing chain replaced due to the excessive oil consumption recall. Due to the many complaints I have seen logged as well as the open recall on other 2010 Equinoxes and traverses I would think there would be an open recall on my VIN but there isn't. I wish I'd never bought this car and I will not be a repeat gm customer.

The contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. The contact stated that the transmission stalled at 40 mph while driving on the highway. The vehicle was towed to a mechanic where they diagnosed that the transmission needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 56,000.

Brought my SUV in delership for recalls from 12/5/2016. It's been in for mutiplable recalls plus oil consumption recall now received my car back had it for 2 days now service department telling me my transmission wave plate needs to be replaced. Service department had returned my car saying everything was fine to drive let me leave in it knowing they knew this would happen. Very upset plus am out around $800 dollars thought these recalls were covered nope had to come out of my pocket. Now they want $4374. 69!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

The contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. While driving 60 mph with the accelerator pedal depressed, the contact heard an abnormally loud sound cominf from the hood of the vehicle. The check engine warning indicator illuminated. The vehicle was towed to a dealer where it was diagnosed that the fluid in the transmission had burned out and metal shards were discovered in the transmission, which needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 80,000.

The contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. While driving 65 mph, the vehicle downshifted without warning. In addition, the vehicle would not shift into reverse when prompted. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 98,000.

My vehicle starts own its own and know I have the engine light on and the air conditioning turns on own its own!!!! please help.

Bought the car used and only put about 20k miles on it and transmission went out.

Wasn't informed about the excessive oil consumption. Letter never made it to my house. Excessive oil consumption has caused the catalytic converter to fail prematurely . Chevy issued a special warranty but it disqualifies you if you have more 120k miles. Chevy has known about this issues since 2011 but intentionally waited to issue special bulletin because they wanted to disqualify as many people as possible. . The service rep told me since I didn't pay the previous repair (which were manufacturer defects) that I am basically responsible for the repairs. This car has had over 4 major repairs that were due to manufacturer defects but the rep is saying that since I'm the original owner they won't assist me. I told her the issue is with the car, it has nothing to do with the ownership which is why you're issuing all the special warranties. None of the major repairs that were done on this car are listed in the vehicle history report on carfax or on the gm owner site where it states that such reports will appear. I got the service report from the dealership when I saw the sales associate with it. I told the rep had the information about the excessive oil consumption been listed on my chevy profile I would have had the issue fixed thus saving the catalytic converter. She still claimed it was sent. The catalytic converters need to be recalled without exception. Honda replaced my cracked my engine block no questions asked! they have honored ever warranty I've ever had and fixed every manufacturer defect without drama. I cannot say that about chevy. They have caused me nothing but stress over issues they created and have gotten away with it and today I just learned that my car now has a fuel pump recall.

The check engine light came on while driving with code p0017 crankshaft position - camshaft position correlation (bank 1 sensor b). The next day while driving two more codes came on including p0700 and p182e (I have on obd reader). At that moment the engine continued to run but the transmission appeared to go into a neutral condition. This occured while driving @ 30 mph. I was able to coast to the side of the street. At that point I could rev the engine but their was no forward drive to move the vehicle. After letting the car sit in an off condition for a couple of minutes, I was the able to restart the vehicle and drive home. I then brought the car to the dealer for further diagnostics as there are several components which could cause this error code. The dealer then concluded that the timing chain had apparently stretched and was causing the camshaft position sensor to trip. I was told that the repair was very extensive and of course costly as the motor has to be removed from the vehicle in order to replace the stretched timing chain. I started researching the error code online and came across a service bulletin (sb-10052863-6133) published in 2014 by general motors detailing a newer timing chain kit that was released to address this stretching issue. Several general motors models are included in the bulletin as they all utilize the same v6 3. 0 liter engine as what is in my Equinox. My major gripe is that the consumer should have been made aware of the potential premature failure of the timing chain sooner, before the warranty period expired. General motors had a similar issue with timing chain failures in their 4 cylinder 2. 4 liter engines and an official recall was done for that engine. I feel this same condition is now started to affect the v6 3. 0 liter as well.

I have 72615 miles on my car. I just had to have the transmission replaced. The transmission mechanic at aamco said it was because of wave plate failure. My car has a 6t45e transmission. The cost to have this replaced was $3,414. 43 and in his professional opinion this should not have failed at this low mileage. This failure happened all of a sudden. I had never had any problems until the day it went out completely.

Wave plate the wave plate blew up in our transmission leaving us with a $5000 bill on a vehicle with only 76000 miles. The wave plate on 2010 chevy Equinox's has been recalled by specific VIN numbers by gm but for whatever reason my VIN is not on the recall list. It should be and I shouldnt be paying a 5000$ bill. Our vehicle came to a complete stop in the middle of the highway with my 2 year old and 4 year old in the car. My husband and a kind gentleman had to push the vehicle out of the roadway.

While ramping on to a busy highway in my 2010 Chevrolet Equinox (67,000 miles) accelerating toward 55 mph, the vehicle suddenly started decelerating and rpms climbed. This resulted in me being nearly rear-ended and I had to quickly guide the car to the shoulder of the road. The engine would only rev in gear and not move forward. I shifted the vehicle to park and turned off the engine. Upon restarting the vehicle it seemed as if it had function back. I proceeded a few miles further to a parking lot. At this point, the transmission was not functioning well enough to go further. This is when we called a towing service, and had it towed to the nearest Chevrolet dealership. Ultimately, we were told that a plate had gone out in the transmission and that this had also destroyed several other components in the transmission. The quote for these repairs was $4600. 00. This happened around 67,000 miles on the vehicle and after reporting to the dealership numerous times early in ownership and over multiple visits that the vehicle was making an odd sound coming from the transmission on shifts. We reported these issues way before the 100,000 miles/5 year warranty expired. Instead of finding anything wrong with the transmission, the dealership told us that it could be an engine problem and told us to start coming in every 1000 miles for an oil consumption test. I feel that this was a delay tactic to make sure that Chevrolet would not have to cover warranty repair of the transmission. I feel that this should have been covered under warranty and that it is a severe safety issue, considering that prior models of the Chevrolet Equinox had the same problem with transmission plates and the chance for a deadly accident because of the loss of momentum in traffic with no warning.

Getting on the highway the engine started to rev, would not go over 30 miles per hour, no reverse, engine light appeared. Almost involved in accident.