Transmission Failure Problems of Chevrolet Spark

In the past I had a 2013 chevy Spark LS. But in 2017 an idiot who was texting and driving ran a stop sign, crossed through four lanes and t-boned my car injuring me and totaling my car. I am blessed to have survived. Until that day the only issue with my Spark was a failure of the "ignition / safety security chime". Prior to the accident it was addressed and fixed. Now I have a 2015 chevy Spark LS and have had a transmission failure reported, and fixed due to a national recall for 2013-2015's. However following the transmission replacement(matt bowers chevy-slidell,la )now I'm dealing with a total failure of the radio (black screen, no audio, no power) and no audio for the onstar buttons. As part of the transmission recall a list of all items "fixed" where given to me. A total software update was performed for radio, which now doesn't work. I reported this to the dealership who promptly blamed my radio/onstar failure on " the summer heat in louisiana ". I checked NHTSA for failures of the radio/onstar and found several documented cases of electrical failures of chevy Sparks, chevy sonics and other chevys. My radio (audio/screen) my onstar (audio) was working fine and did not signal any problems in the prediagnostic check prior to my total transmission replacement due to the transmission recall. It seems as though you can not trust that anyone will stand behind their products and work. I hope this information is helpful and I want to remind everyone to constantly check the NHTSA website for national recalls regularly. Several diagnostics were performed to find my transmission failure yet the site did not return a hit on my VIN number so at first the Chevrolet dealerships refused to perform services - due to my cars VIN not ( at first) being listed on the NHTSA site. Keep searching, print out information and bring in your mechanics automobiles diagnosis. Report the non-compliant dealerships if necessary. I hope that this is helpful to someone.

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Manual transmission repeated failures. The transmission has gone out 5 times, been in shop for grand total of 6 months. 3rd and 4th gear synchros have gone out. Cables are popping off and not allowing to shift. Majority of failures have happened at highway speed, posing a dangerous situation where a unpowered vehicle is trying to exit moving traffic.

Transmission failure on highway.

Transmission has failed twice since purchase. Both times while driving on the interstate. The original transmission was replaced at 65k miles and now it needs a 3rd transmission after only 50k miles on the 2nd transmission. Vehicle has 115k miles currently. This vehicle is all highway miles & both failures were while driving on the interstate.

I am on my 3rd transmission in 2 years. The car hesitates when pulling out from a stop. At times the hesitation is so great that the car does not move at all, despite the gas pedal being pressed to the floor. The most recent episode was total transmission failure. But the transmission has had this problem since I got the car and the dealer has tried to "fix" it repeatedly, with no success.

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