Automatic Transmission Floor Shift problems of the 2011 Chevrolet Traverse

One problem related to automatic transmission floor shift has been reported for the 2011 Chevrolet Traverse. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2011 Chevrolet Traverse based on all problems reported for the 2011 Traverse.

1 Automatic Transmission Floor Shift problem

Failure Date: 04/25/2012

I am writing to inform you of a recent safety issue we had with our 2011 Chevrolet Traverse. On Wednesday, April 25, 2012, I was parked in said vehicle with the keys out of the ignition, pumping gas at smokin joes on indian hill in lewiston. I had all three of my children, ages 8, 6, and 5 in the vehicle. While pumping gas, my vehicle began to roll, ripping the gas nozzle from my car, spilling gas. I began to run after my car and thankfully it stopped just before entering oncoming traffic. I thank the grace of god that my children were not injured…my husband looked at the gear shifter and he was able to pop it out of gear without the key in the ignition and his foot off the brake pedal. On Thursday, April 26, 2012 I took my car into kipo. They looked at my vehicle and also confirmed our findings, that the car does, in fact, slip out of gear when the key is out of the ignition and the foot is off the brake pedal…contact with bill wirtheim, gm of paddock Chevrolet, where we purchased the vehicle. Mr. Wirtheim contacted general motors, who then declared my vehicle under gm investigation. A driver from paddock came to our home to pick up our vehicle. We were contacted by justin,a representative from gm on may 3. Gm return phone call from him until Monday, may 7. He just wanted a recap of what happened. That same day, my husband followed up with paddock, who claimed they believed the vehicle to have been already repaired by kipo, which it was not. This afternoon, bill wirtheim contacted my husband and told him they will fix the vehicle and we can have it back. Apparently there was a liquid that had previously spilled over the gear shifter that shorted out. We are not satisfied with this response. This wasn't just an issue of a gear shifter shorting out while parked in our driveway. Our children were in the car that was parked on an incline of a busy gas station and intersection and could have been killed.


Other Power Train related problems of the 2011 Chevrolet Traverse

Power Train problems
71
Transmission Fluid Leaking problems
3
Automatic Transmission Floor Shift problems
1


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