Power Train Problems of GMC Canyon - part 2

Key is not pulling out of ignition after truck has been put in park. Mechanic has replaced the shifter twice, and yet the problem is more pronounced. The dealership (anthony GMC) has now stated there is no problem, and yet the key wont come out for them either.

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I purchased this truck used about 5000 miles ago and it now has 26,800 miles and when you put it in park the key will not come out. You have to keep starting and shutting off and eventually it will come out. I have read alot of complaints about this and nothing is being done at gm. They should be ashamed of themselves for a substantial issue and they want to charge the customer for there issue.

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At highway cruising speed I am experiencing a shake or a shutter coming from the transmission.

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•water coolant valve, and torque converter. •my truck temp gage will fluctuate towards red line and back to normal. Torque converter caused my vehicle to shake, vibrate, slow accelerating, made it seem vehicle will shut off on highway or in heavy traffic. •I went to several mechanics, including the dealerships and they fixed my water coolant valve but issue persisted, the dealerships said my truck was running fine until I had requested to ride along with mechanic, that's when he guessed it would be torque converter. •has not been inspected, just test drove and replaced by mechanic •no lights indicated on dash board and I felt the shake and vibration around 08/01/2021 and reported to dealership. The water temp gage was reported back in Nov 2018 but the problem still persist.

The vehicle hesitates and shifts harshly as if it will stall at low speed acceleration leaving my driveway and when going forward from a full stop at red light to green. Very jerky ride, uneven acceleration, fear of stalling.

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Ignition key randomly will not release from switch. The key is stuck in the ignition in the accessory position which in turn kills the battery. As far as I can tell (and I have read about and experienced this problem for many months) the root cause is the gear shift assembly or part # 23397472. It is not reliably returning the confirmation, to the solenoid lock on the ignition switch, that the transmission is in park reliably. For the first time last w/e my dealer admitted this is a problem and that replacing 23397472 usually resolves the issue. I need gm to take responsibility and activate a recall.

Have had truck in shop several times, currently in the shop and has been there for almost 3 weeks nobody seems to know what the problem is. Vehicle losses power and goes into a limp mode. Temperature gauge keeps failing, exhaust break does not work, ac cuts out often and does not work often, keeps trying to clean exhaust filter over and over again and again.

The contact owns a 2015 GMC Canyon. The contact stated while the vehicle was stationary, the service 4wd warning light illuminated. The vehicle was not taken to a local dealer nor independent mechanic to be diagnosed. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was informed of the failure however, no additional assistance was provided. The failure mileage was approximately 44,430.

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The contact owns a 2018 GMC Canyon. The contact stated that on various occasions while driving approximately 70 mph, the vehicle was shaking. There was no warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to several independent mechanics; however, the mechanics were unable to duplicate the failure. The tires were and balanced. The contact stated that the failure was reoccurred. The contact stated that after taking the vehicle back to another independent mechanic, it was determined that the transmission and torque converter needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was unknown.

I am the owner of a 2020 Canyon sle that was purchased in June of 2020. The vehicle has about 20,000 mile on it currently. I have been experiencing a "lag" on acceleration after coming to a stop. This feels like the transmission isn't down shifting all the way. At time when accelerating from a stop the truck will act as it is in a high gear then suddenly slam into a first gear. I have take my truck to jessup GMC in palm springs and they say the tech can not reproduce the problem. This sounds like the same issue the 2015-1019 models have in reference to bulletin: 18-na-355 dated August 2019.

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Vehicle frequently shuts off during braking or while stopped and must be restarted before the vehicle can operate again. Vehicle experiences violent gear changes and significant lagging during periods of moderate acceleration at low speeds. Gear changes result in either severe unresponsiveness and a general lack of acceleration or an aggressive gear change that jerks the vehicle and spins the tires.

Power steering assist shuts off while driving on normal.

I'm the owner of a newly bought (6/5/2020 purchased date) 2020 GMC Canyon. I took my truck into the dealership and complained that I have experienced transmission issues when downshifting or accelerating. My most common issue is �shuddering� when the truck accelerates and sudden �jerking� when downshifting gears when driving up an incline or even coming to a complete stop. The dealership said they haven't had any problems with the 2020 Canyons and unless it reads a �code� there's nothing they can do. Gm said tell the customer to drive it and we will call if we get any further information. This is a serious problem. I was driving the vehicle and because of the sudden jerking and transmission & or engine issues with the vehicle the rpms reved up to over 4500 rpms and I was stuck out in the middle of a lane and could not go anywhere. I had cars avoiding me so that way they would not hit me head on or on the side of my truck. This is a serious and fatal accident waiting to happen and the issue is gm knows about it because it happened with their 2015- 2019 colorado and cannon series. Despite many complaints and numerous lawsuits about these serious issues, there are currently no ongoing investigations regarding transmission and engine defects for these vehicles within gm for the 2020 canon. I have paid almost $50,000 for a vehicle that should have a lemon law put on it because gm knows they are producing bad transmission/engines and not doing anything about it. I asked gm corporate and the local dealership what am I supposed to do when I'm in another situation where the vehicle does not want to get in gear and is shaking and shuttering and jerking and revving up the rpms and the next time. I said I probably wouldn't be so lucky as to having people avoid me and then me and my daughter wind up in a head on collision and we don't make it out alive.

Service 4wd message again appears. When driving and switching into 4wd received this message. Third time, needs "reprogramming" . Filed complaint with gm about a design flaw and no satisfaction.

My 2018 GMC Canyon slt shudders alot. It is not constant but it is often. It sort of feels like you're driving over rumble strips. I do not feel it at highway speeds, just driving around town. It's especially prevalent when going up hills. To me, it feels like a transmission issue. When I did a google search, I found out it's a known problem. I contacted my dealer and they were familiar with it asking if I had a transmission fluid change yet. I told them I had not and they scheduling me for that service in a couple weeks. I am not happy that my 2 year old $40k plus truck has a transmission problem at 25k miles.

My GMC Canyon has only 35,000 miles. It started shaking, shuddering frequently, and having hard shift when changing gears, specially when speeding down. It feels similar to drive over the street lines with a similar sound. There is a strong sound coming from the transmission when fast shifting happened from high to low or when stop at the stop light. It is like the engine wants to leave from the body of the truck. This vibration is also felt when driving at low speed or low gear and the truck is demanding more power, but the transmission does not control that demand. It is like not communication between the transmission and the engine.

Truck jerks and makes loud noises when going up incline when transmission is shifting and constantly shifting even at low speed.

Ignition will not fully turn off and release key when truck is placed in park. I'm addition ignition and key become very hot to the touch after driving for over 20 minutes (temp outside is cool 50-60�). Truck will eventually turn off and release the key after restarting and shifting through all gears multiple times (turning off, back on, shifting, etc. ). Already attempted cleaning keys (both sets) with no change in behavior.

Traveling down city street approx 35mph vehicle unexpectedly shut off, dash went dark but infotainment system continued to work. Loss of all power. Brakes shuttered when attempting to come to a stop. Put the vehicle in park, turned it off, and back on. Vehicle drove normally after that.

Hi. This is my second formal complaint regarding intermittent loss of power steering, traction control, and stability control on my 2015 GMC Canyon. There have been recurring temporary losses of the aforementioned vehicle capabilities while the vehicle is in motion, leading to severely degraded vehicle performance, handling, and traction. In every case, warnings lights have displayed immediately before the loss of control. These lights have also 'turned-off' or reset when the vehicle was restarted. I have repeatedly brought my truck into authorized GMC service appointments soon after the warning lights and performance failures, or in one instance as the warning light was actively illuminated. Each time, the service department was not able to recreate the issue or pull any relevant service codes related to the problem. Needless to say, I do not believe the root cause issue has been adjudicated and I think this represents a clear and present danger to drivers of the 2015 GMC Canyon such as myself. While my truck was not part of the past recall, this seems strongly related to the prior steering gear connector recall.

I was taking off from a stop sign and turning right into traffic. Acceleration was moderate while completing the turn where I had to reduce the throttle to prevent the tires from spinning. The transmission shifted into too high of a gear as a result and did not downshift when 50% plus throttle position was applied. Engine had lack of power. I had to stomp it to the floor to get it to downshift. By this time traffic was coming up on me fast because of the excessive delay trying to get the transmission to respond. The truck has the most current software updates based on what the dealership told me.

Vehicle has frequent slow acceleration when entering highways. I have to step on the accelerator hard to have the engine pick-up speed, which leads to the engine over accelerating. When I slow down on sharp road turns and accelerate to pickup speed the transmission shifting the gear hard (making a thump sound). Have gone to dealer at merced GMC and turlock Chevrolet. Both state car is running the way GMC manufactured it.

Vehicle stalls then jerks forward when accelerating and decelerating. Jerking causes brief loss of control as vehicle lurches forward while transmission attempts to catch up. This occurs at any moment while driving (uphill, downhill, turning, city streets and highways) seems to occur most when speeds are under 60 mph. Causes very unsafe conditions and check engine light goes on and off. Occurred today and has occurred almost everyday since I've owned the vehicle. (2 years).

Truck stalls as if in neutral after starting. Unfortunately, I have to let this truck run for t least 10 minutes or more before I can take off. If I start the truck and put it in drive any sooner, truck won't move. Actually, it runs then send to slam (very hard jerk) into drive, studders, then functions normal. I took it back to dealer and they say there has been multiple complaints about these trucks. I also was told gm put a statement out about these complaints and said there is nothing they can do to fix, in so many words. Dealer say it will go away. I've had this vehicle since July 4 2019 and still happening almost everyday.

Car was working fine most of the day. Got in my car and it would not start. I tried it three times, no luck. I shut everything off, pulled the keys, opened the door. I then tried again fo turn on car, came right on. Now however, the car is having over accelerating and decelerating problems which it didnt have two hours ago. Going up/down any type of hill is where its the worst at accelerating and decelerating randomly. Sometimes it over accelerating and I dont even have my foot on the gas at that moment. And it has a hard bucking problem between the two random accelerating/decelerating problems.

I was driving on the downward slope of the steep mississippi bridge in baton rouge, la and loss my power steering control. Luckily, I was able to pull to the side of the interstate. I complained about this a month ago when I took the truck to gerry lane GMC. I was told it was a bad battery. So I purchased a battery from the dealership. Not even a week later the same problem occurred. However, when I cut the ignition off and crank back up it resets. The service advisor stated to bring it back in if it happens again. This time (about two weeks later) while I lost power I was able to video so I can show this advisor what keeps happening. This time it took me at least 4 times cranking up and then shutting off the engine to get it to reset so I could get back home and switch cars. I was too afraid to continue driving going over the next bridge that's 20 plus miles without an exit and lose power steering again. I've had to rent cars for this repetitive occurrence with this truck that seems to not be able to be repaired. Or either they know what's wrong but waiting for it to be out of warranty for me to take on the cost of repairing it. But this is not safe to keep loosing power steering and I'm driving anywhere between 50 to 70 mph. I also explained that when I park I can't turn the key to take out of the ignition. So again I have to crank up and pull forward to try and reset so I can be able to remove the key from the ignition. I took a video of that as well that I can't post.

2017 GMC Canyon equipped with diesel engine will sporadically shut-off while operating when driving with a tank that is less than 1/4 full. On 1/31/19 (odometer ~14200 miles) vehicle was driving fine with an ambient air temperature of roughly 0�f, fuel tank at 1/3, when all of sudden the engine died in traffic with no warning. Vehicle then needed to be towed to the dealership for service at which point they couldn't find anything wrong with it. Again on 3/4/19 (odometer ~15100 miles) vehicle was driving fine when the dash lit up with multiple codes and truck went into reduced power mode, ambient air temperature 10�f gas tank at 1/8th. Got out of truck and it smelled like it was on fire. Called to have vehicle towed to dealership. Vehicle kept for multiple days at dealership, dealer worked with gm to identify an issue and no fix was found. Dealer called to instruct me to not drive the vehicle with less than 1/4 tank during winter and also mentioned that this has been an issue with a few other Canyon and terrain diesel models. Gm needs to find a fix for this! it is totally unsafe and unacceptable to have a truck that will unexpectedly loose total power when driving due to a design flaw in their systems.

Rumbling of transmission. Clucky start. Gm dealer acknowledges the problem and has tried to repair vehicle. Gm says at this time the truck 8 speed transmissions are not fixable.

Had vehicle serviced under warranty several times for transmission issues. I was told by the dealer I had the most current software updates as of March of 2018. Vehicle continues to behave badly under certain circumstances. Transmission does not downshift properly if needing to accelerate hard. Engine rpm's rev to about 5,000 rpm and the transmission goes into too low of a gear, until the correct gear is found. This causes a delay in response that creates a safety hazard. Had only one instance where the truck accelerated hard out of a 90 degree turn even though only light pedal was used. Transmission shutters under light load when going up a slight upgrade. Dealership doesn't not want to acknowledge there is a problem. I was told I would be contacted if future updates were available and have heard absolutely nothing.

Transmission clunks feels like your hit in the rear end. I thought I was rear ended 3 times so far. My transmission surges forward from 4th to 5th gear. Very dangerous to wear I don't want to drive the truck.

The automatic transmission shifts aggressively the first gears from a cold started engine after engaging from park to drive. Sluggish shifting and acceleration.

Transmission jerks from 4th to 5th. Sometimes feels like someone hit you in the rear ended.

While driving, the engine picks and chooses when to speed up. I press the gas peddle down and have to wait a few seconds before the vehicle responds. I have noticed the vehicle making sounds like it is sputtering almost to the point to seizing all together.

Transmission slipped almost from start. Took three appointments and two years - if my shop foreman knew the third time, why did he not call and tell me we now know your problem. I finally got fed up and brought it in one more time. Starter from day one maybe 50% of time made loud bang when bendix retracted. Shop refused to take it off!!! I checked ball joint boots. One feels like no grease in it. They 'looked' at it. No answer and nothing was done. Has had 'lifter noise' since new when small acceleration. Noise rate accelerates till shift and then repeats. I'm told they don't hear anything. I am 76 and hard of hearing. Pleeeeeze - don't tell me there isn't any. Not my best day today and felt it's time to say crap is crap.

Slow and go driving 20-40mph after coasting and trying to accelerate again the transmission bucks hesitates trying to find a lower gear. It can't decide which gear to go into and just sputters and chugs until I push the accelerator 1/2 way down or more the finds its gear and rockets off. This type of driving not safe at all. This happens all the time since practically new. Gm claims its normal. Bulletins to not fix anything except update the software. That doesn't accomplish anything. This is a known gm issue with colorados and Canyons and gm changed transmissions following years and no support for 2015-16.