Automatic Transmission Floor Shift Problems of Chevrolet Traverse

Computer keeps saying shift into park after the car is in park and I’m trying to shut the car off. I then have to jiggle the throttle into park in order for it to recognize it’s already in park.

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I have had two major issues. First is the whole "shift to park" message that you have to vigorously wiggle the transmission lever to get to go away so you may exit the vehicle. I have had it in the dealer for it once already and they said they replaced the wireing harness. This did nothing. I am the second owner and I had that done at about 35,000 miles but it never completely went away. Now I am at 50,000 miles and for the last few weeks I have been noticing terrible high pitch noise that sounds like bad road noise but its coming from the drive train. So far it has seemed to happen mostly around the 72 to 78 mph range on the hwy. As soon as you let off the gas the noise goes away but 50% of the time the noise comes back when you reapply the gas. Sometimes it takes drastically changing speed and then trying to get back to normal. My family and I travel a lot. That's why we got the Traverse and otherwise have loved it! but I am so very scarred that my family will get stranded in busy and dangerous traffic.

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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.

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