Exterior Lighting Problems of Chevrolet Spark

There are many electrical failures in this vehicle from the door alarm not sounding when the car has been turned off to the radio staying on and burning down the battery and the radio making changes to the stations volume, volume freezes and lowers or is totally unresponsive while the driver is driving, this is a major distracting. Also overhead light is unresponsive and flickers when it wants to. Subsequently these issues have required me to have 5 new batteries replaced since owning this car. A dealer wants to charge $225 to check this I have seen and heard other complaints. I can’t possibly be the only one having these problems. My VIN number is not part of it. Previous recalls for some unknown reason. There has never been a battery failure, or warning light it just dies. I have video of the occurrence on most recently on January 11, 2020 for what has been occurring for years and very frequently.

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Windshield wipers and stability control and other electrical problems occurred while driving thru the rain.

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The front lights appear to have a defect in them. When I have a bulb replace it goes right out. I just purchased this car on 11/19/2018. I had the oil changed twice already and the oil indicator continues to come on.

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There is no illumination of the cruise and communication controls on the steering wheel. This is particularly dangerous driving at night as there is no way to see the controls at all.

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The contact owns a 2017 Chevrolet Spark. The contact stated that the windshield wipers failed. The windshield wipers failed to engage to clear the windshield as needed. The contact also mentioned that the day time running light also failed to operate as intended. The failures occurred intermittently. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer to have a diagnostic performed. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 14,044.

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The center console screen (infotainment) is very bright on its lowest light level setting. No way to turn off the screen or dim it more the where the factory setting is. Talked with dealer, onstar call center, and customer activist at Chevrolet. They all say it is a factory setting that cannot be changed. This is very dangerous, because at its lowest setting I can not see if there is any wildlife of humans along the edge of the rural road at night. It is like driving in a condition equivalent to having a constant oncoming high beam light. There needs to be a recall for a programming update to the computer so there is a virtual dimmer switch that goes all the way down to off.

The steering wheel controls do not illuminate when you turn the lights on the car and makes it difficult to turn off/on the cruise control of the vehicle. You have to take your attention off the road to see the buttons at night.

This vehicle does not illuminate the steering wheel controls. With absolutely no ambient lighting, the interior of the car is extremely dark, and visibility of the controls is non existent. This presents a severe driving hazard, as there are no alternative controls for the cruise. In order to use the controls, you must take your eyes off of the road and blindly fumble, trying to determine which of the ten mounted controls you need to use, thus averting your attention from your surroundings, momentarily. Chevrolet is aware of this problem, as they started illuminating the Nov. 12 builds, consequently neglecting a fix for the pre Nov. 13 builds. Of which I am one. I am not comfortable driving under these conditions after dark. An intervention is clearly needed here, as Chevrolet will not act, and even denies the fact that they did indeed perform the upgrade. Hopefully something will be done, before we orphans wind up paying the consequences.

The steering wheel controls (cruise control, audio etc) do not illuminate. After some research, I have found that gm has remedied this issue with models manufactured after November 2012. This is a safety hazard at night because if I use my cruise control, I have to turn on my dome light to see what button to push. I complained to gm and was told that gm is simply not going to do anything about models manufactured prior to Nov 2012.

The controls on the steering column are not illuminated. At night this presents a problem as the controls can not be seen and if pressed inadvertently can create and unsafe situation as it is virtually impossible to determine what has happened. Other vehicles in this model year have illuminated controls. Vehicle's manufacturer refuses to take action. Updated 06/04/14.

Buttons on steering wheel that work the cruise control, hands free phone, and radio controls do not light up when lights are on at night. This creates a dangerous situation as the buttons can not be seen in the dark. Gm is aware of the situation and has repaired it in models built after October 25 2012, but will not fix it in the models built before then. When I purchased the vehicle in November of 2012, I was not informed of the change before the purchase, leading me to believe that gm and its dealers intentionally mislead me into buying a car that they had already deemed as having an unsafe feature or they would not have changed it.

Lack of button illumination lights for the cruise control, hands-free phone control and audio control on the steering wheel for night driving. The lack of illumination lights on these buttons creates potential safety issue when attempting to use the cruise control, phone call or audio functions from the steering wheel at night. This problem seems to be only for 2013 Spark models with production prior to October 2012.