general problems of the 2006 GMC Envoy

Steering wheel locks. It cannot be turned to the right as it will cause the entire care to swerve. When reversing the car turns in the opposite direction of where you are turning. I'm backing into traffic and have to manually pull the steering wheel as if there is a power steering issue. Engine light came on day after purchase indicating I need catalyst converter and sensor. No way to predict which way the car will turn. If I hit a bump the car swerves to the right causing me to swerve into next lane. In motion I am constantly swerving into danger.

The initial time (3/14) it occurred, I was out of town with my family, embarrassed to say the least. However, mainly uncomfortable, tired, and frustrated because my 87 years old dad was stranded for hours as well as my 66 years old sister who is recovering from cancer. This problem was a serious problem because of our location. We had gone to get dinner and ice cream after getting ice cream we back in the vehicle for it would not start. I called 911 no police ever showed nor would even stop to assist. After 2 1/2 hours, we contacted a church member to find out about a mechanic in the area that could possibly come check it out. Another church member came to check it first, by now 3 hours have lapsed and the vehicle starts. After this it has happened on three (3) separate occasions with me (3/19, 3/20, & 3/21) but my mechanic said it happened with him 3 or 4 times while he was driving it to check it out and while it was sitting just running not being driven. I was on the interstate once, once driving, and once parked and it would not start. The times I was by myself once was on the interstate, another was going through an intersection, and once was in a high crime area where I felt very unsafe for my vehicle and myself. My mechanic replaced the crankshaft and camshaft sensors and the problem persists. I had a diagnostic test performed but was told the items listed on the test �may� be the problem. I have also had a problem with it accelerating while driving as if the gas is not distributing properly. It was as if it was choking up as if there was a clog. A dangerous place to be in traffic or going across a railroad track, which it has occurred several times with me. I actually was almost rear ended on the interstate.

My husband and I were traveling when the vehicle shut off with no warning at all and all the dash board lights came on. The vehicle would not restart but would turn. This happened Saturday 9/2/17 on a country highway out in nowhere . We called a tow truck. Thank god for cellphones. On 11/12/2016 hub bearings replaced. 11/15/16 module and connector replaced and fuel level sensors and ring replaced. Three years ago a/c went out. Replaced.

Hi ! as many other GMC Envoy costumer stock at the earlier 50-100 thousand milles with engine problem caused by misfire cylinder . I do a have a problem with my SUV engine the classic misfire #6 cylinder that it cost a $2000 or plus to get repair , short worlds loosing the engine . If you guys check about this issue is extremely big and horrible thousand people a cross the country dealing with this issue . I did noticed this issue just driving , I got to stop sign and the engine starts shaking and the check engine come on , after I took to a mechanic shop for diagnostic and put about $200 dollars on spark plugs and coil and noting changed I was tell by the mechanic that it was a lower compression on the 6 cylinder so bad valve .

Voss Chevrolet, dayton, ohio, returned my Envoy to me on September 2, 2015 without repair of a dangerous malfunction threatening serious injury to me or others. It is a sudden unintended acceleration occurring over seven times sporadically from July thru August 2015 as I have slowed to a stop at a traffic intersection and also when pulling head -in to parking spaces. It can only be stopped by abruptly switching from drive gear to park or neutral. I have driven this vehicle for just over 5 years of a 12- year period while also driving my non-general motors vehicle. As well, I have driven a newly purchased vehicle since April 2014. I have owned many vehicles over the past 51 years. I bought the 2006 Envoy from voss Chevrolet as a certified vehicle,32,000 miles, in April 2010. Voss electronic monitoring confirmed the fact that the high speed acceleration actually occurred while braking, but they stated when their service person kept and drove the vehicle it did not occur. Gm (tac) advised them unintended acceleration was "impossible and the only answer" is that I must be using two- feet, holding the brake and accelerator down simultaneously. (the voss electronic camera monitor they had given me had shown an acceleration equivalent to ""80 miles per hour while braking occurred! that is also documented. ) (despite never a need to use two feet, in this SUV the left foot always rests some distance away on a foot-rest near the driver's door). I do not falsify matters. My background is one of integrity and reaching factually supported and logical conclusions arising from professional demands of a 41-year career as an attorney recently retired as a federal judge.

Takata recall, gas gauge will only show empty.

The fuel gage fluctuates from full to empty. You never know when your getting low on gas.

Filled SUV up at gas station. Gas gauge went to full. Proceeded out of gas station when the gas gauge went to empty, gas gauge will now not stay in one place, continues to act up and mostly stays on empty and the bell rings constantly. I am unable to determine how much fuel I have and concerned that the SUV will think its out of gas and shut off.

The vehicle fuel guage goes from full to empty. It then starts to cause the car to stall when it goes to empty nearly causing another car to hit you.

My 2006 GMC Envoy xl gas gauge reads empty after filling, then slowly moves up after driving but will continue to lose pressure until it reads empty and the light is on. Sometimes it will just remain on the e an the light will be on when I have gas in my vehicle.

One evening I was driving on the main highway and my inside lights came on. I pulled to the side of the road to check the switch but it was on auto. I turned it off but the lights stayed on. They were still on when I got home and parked turned off the ignition the lights were still on. The next morning my car couldn't start because it had ran my battery down. Another incident was my headlights went off one night while I was drive on the highway. I am also having problems with my gas gauge. My gas light comes on like I am out of gas. The last time I fill my car up with gas it hesitated. It didn't want to start. The light stays on when my car is full of gas. I smell gas. I sat at the gas station for an our because my car didn't want to start. The sound of my radio goes in and out. My lights continue to go on and off when driving or when not driving. One morning I got up to go to work, went to start my car and the headlights were on but the switch was off. I couldn't get the lights to go off when I got to work. They stayed on at least for 4 hrs. Sometime the lights doesn't come on when I put them on. I really have some weird things go on with my vehicle. I did get the module changed and they did some re-wiring in the door. One year before the module, I got them to check my car for a short and I was told from them that my wires were over heated. I paid about $900 to fix it. I strongly think it is a detect some wheres or something that would cause my wires to over heat.

After driving approximately 20 miles on cruise control I tapped the brakes to disengage the cruise control. The vehicle dramatically lost power and the check engine light came on. I was able to avoid other traffic and pull over on the freeway, I then drove off the freeway on the shoulder and into the nearest gm dealer at maximum speed of approximately 30 mph. The problem was diagnosed several times resulting in rewiring of the throttle body connector and finally replacement of the throttle body after the third incident of the same issue. Loss of power and unable to proceed at more than about 30 mph.

First, gas gage started miss reading, then a month or 2 later it has been stuck on e with low indicator light on ever since. Second, last week my daughter stopped the vehicle, put the gear selector in park, car kept moving, dash indicator was still indicating drive and kept moving. Good thing she didn't get out of the car. I saw a big recall for gm multiple years but not my model for bad shifter cable and that is what broke. That could have been a very serious incident and could have caused someone to get seriously injured.

Stability control light constantly come on for repair,second repair on fuel system, diagnostic shows problem in steering and right wheel.

Bought the GMC Envoy 2006 yesterday at 50,000 miles and filled up with gas and the gauge stayed on empty for approximately 50 miles than started to fluctuate between empty and full.

Envoy lost power while driving 55 miles an hour down the road. Because I didn't realize it was out of gas I had it towed to a shop thinking there was an engine issue. Shop discovered that it was just out of gas and that my fuel sensor is bad and quoted me $1500 to fix. The gas gauge is never accurate and I have ran out of gas multiple times with two small children in the car. After seeing all the complaints of other people who have the same issue I called GMC and they said that they will only fix for free if it has less than 100,000 miles on it. I only had 108,000 on it when the issue started. How fair is that?.

While driving vehicle, started to rough idle and almost caused a vehicle accident because I was unable to stop the car while driving, engine shutdown while driving and lost all power and braking & steering ability, restated vehicle and got burning gas smell from vehicle exhaust pipe and check engine light on with code p0014, got vehicle serviced and had new sensor installed but now getting pinging sound from engine under load and while driving at speed and minor vibration while at idle. I feel this is a serious issue with this vehicle where almost feel unsafe driving vehicle due to running risk of engine shutdown while at speed and unable to steer or brake when engine stalls due to this condition with code p0014 in cars computer. Would really like to be contacted about this issue, gm should have a recall to inspect these systems and provide free repairs of any faulty sensors and provide a full service check on this vehicles. I felt real unsafe to drive this vehicle due to worrying about causing engine damage or having a accident because of this high end failure of this componet.

Fuel guage made several jumps back and forth after fueling and pulling away from the pump. Guage worked intermitently for a couple of weeks then failed completely. Check engine light stays on now in addition to fuel guage reading of e even after fueling the vehicle. Has been like this for more than a year now and about once every 6 months it springs back to life for a moment then back to e.

Fuel guage erratic, will read full then slowly drop to empty while driving. Eventually the empty light will illuminate and the low fuel bell will sound.

2006 Envoy gas gauge stopped working and my wife ran out of gas on a busy freeway in houston. The steering locked up and she could not turn off the freeway. She was sitting in traffic at rush hour. ## VIN failed ##.

2006 GMC Envoy XLT - inaccurate and random fuel level reading while driving, resulting in the vehicle running out of fuel and causing vehicle stall with no restart.

For about 2 years now, the gas gauge has had an issue on my 2006 Envoy xl. Incorrect readings and now complete failure. Unable to use gauge, had to depend on mileage readings. No repairs attempted, due to the cost involved.

I've got a 2006 GMC Envoy and the gas gauges never reads full. It's always readying either empty or full. I've been dealing with this for about 4 months now. Hoping that something would come of this before I just go out and have someone fix it. My check engine light is on due to this problem. Thanks!.

Fuel guage began reading inaccurately then stopped working entirely.

Fuel level sensor failed at just over 52,000. Miles. From my research this seems to be a reoccuring problem with many 2006 GMC or Chevrolet vehicles from the same year range 2005 to 2006. The recommendation from the dealership was "if you don't want to pay the $500. 00 plus repair estimate, just do what many other people are doing and reset your trip meter at every fill up. Look to re-fuel between 250 and 300 miles. " in my research I discovered a person whose vehicle did the same exact thing. He was using the trip meter as the guage and even with fuel in the vehicle, he was left stranded in an interstate due to an entire fuel system failure. Should this happen to a family during inclement weather there could be serious safety situations. In light of the fact that the vehicle that we own was priced at $38,000. 00 plus msrp,I would expect that the fuel sending unit would perform beyond the 50,000 mile range. I'm sure, by now, that your organization has heard from other gm owners about this same situation. I am interested in your response.

Gm Envoy 2006 fuel level gauge has been failing on thousands of cars for years and I am having the same issue. The Envoy and trailblazers gauge drops to empty, then bounce between fuel and empty then is stays on e until the repair is made. This has caused my wife to run out of gas in the middle of a busy highway and almost causing a major accident. Gm dealerships says they have been aware of the problem for years and there is no recall and owners must pay gm $800 to repair this known issue that I find have been going on since 2005. Gm refuses to recall the fuel sensor and says they will only repair if under warranty for free. The labor is $670 part bring the repair to $800+. If this issue is searched online you will find thousands of complaints and the fear of this causing a major accident if it has not already occured. This major issue needs to be recalled and corrected at gm's expense .

Gas gauge stuck on empty after 65,000 miles on 2006 GMC Envoy. Check engine light also comes on erratically.

I own a 2006 GMC Envoy, in 2007 the fuel sensor stopped working at approximately 20k miles, so I couldn't tell how much gas I had, when full it registers as empty, it was supposedly fixed and then the fuel line came apart while I was driving. Now I am once again having the same issue with the fuel sensor, the vehicle now has 80k miles. I have contacted gm, but they are of no help. Upon checking the message boards there are thousands of Envoys & trailblazers with the same issue.

Gas gauge fluctuates making it impossible to know the amount of gas left in vehicle. Vehicle has run out of gas on highway several times. Gas sensor is faulty according to dealer.

It seems that my vehicles fuel sending unit is defective after only 47,000 miles and through further investigation I found there are many other owners of this line of vehicles that are experiencing this identical problem. I have been told that it will cost over 800. 00 to repair this with no guarantee that it won't happen again. I think this problem should be recalled as most owners of this vehicle are quite upset that they have to pay out of pocket for this defective part to be replaced.