GMC Sierra owners have reported 29 electronic stability control related problems since 1996. Table 1 shows the 1 most common electronic stability control problems. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's electronic stability control (29 problems). For details of each of the problem category, use the links in the table.
| Problem Category | Number of Problems |
|---|---|
| Electronic Stability Control problems |
On the morning of oct 26, 2020 @ 845am. . . I was heading south on 287 in mansfield TX. It was raining hard so I was only going 60 mph. The car in front of me was going 55 or so. When the rain and wind picked up, the car in front of me abruptly hit its brakes. That's when my truck brakes locked and I began sliding or being pulled to the right. I was in the left lane on the 2 lane highway. Had it not been for god and me, not panicking. . . I would have crashed! my truck fish tailed twice while I was trying to apply the brakes but. . . I couldn't stop. I almost put the truck gear in neutral but it was raining so somehow the truck managed to slow down going up a small hill, giving me control back. There were 2 other cars that seen this. I was a nervous wreck! I immediately got off the highway and went to the first gas station I saw and thanked god nothing happened. The problem I have is, what if my family were in the vehicle? how is it that gm is allowed to sell these vehicles? also, I searched almost every website and included my VIN. . . But every reply says my truck is ok (until today). I haven't had this truck for a year yet. But I'm ready to trade it in. I don't feel safe at all. I almost want to get my truck towed home. Why put people lives in jeopardy?.
I nearly died when my brakes failed on my 2018 GMC denali this morning. I was only going 60 mph when another driver cut in front of me, and hit their brakes but when I tried to stop, I could not! I then began swerving from lane to lane because it was raining. Thank god I didn't die and that the person on the right slowed down and moved out the way. The truck seemed to be pulling me to the right. Why I have no idea. But why is gm putting people lives at risk like this? why are we having to suffer or put our families in jeopardy. This makes no sense. My chest started hurting really bad afterwards, because I was so scared. I was on a 2 lane highway going straight but even that doesn't cause a vehicle not to respond like it did.
Apparently, the 8 speed automatic transmission has issues with wiring harness and hard shifting which the manufacturer has 18 service bulletins out on yet still will not recall and fix problems. Also the brake system is faulty and unsafe it loses pressure and even braking at various speeds. After taking it to the dealership they can not figure out why and say it is various parts and should be recalled but it is not as of yet. Gm knows of these issues and the 1000s of dollars customers have to pay for these repairs. This is wrong and needs to be rectified.
After using app to start the vehicle, I sat in the driver seat depressed the brake and pushed the start button. Immediately a warning popped up saying esc needed service, service trailer brake, speed limited to 62mph. Additional lights illuminated including brake, traction control, abs, and cel. Since the dash indicated that the speed was reduced I thought it would be safe to drive, however at the first turn I realized my brakes were nearly gone and I went through the intersection. The brakes appeared to have lost the boost and were extremely hard to depress making it difficult to stop the vehicle. I limped the truck home and notified the dealer. The next day I tried starting the truck and the brakes returned with no dash messages although the cel was still illuminated. There is a recall for a similar issue but it looks like my VIN is not apart of it.
After starting vehicle using the mygmc app, I received the following warnings: 1. Service trailer brake system 2. Steering assist is reduced drive with care 3. Service esc 4. Brake system failure 62 mph top speed 5. Check engine light. Vehicle was stationary and I did not drive afterwards. Truck was in for service last week to complete recent recalls and replace a leaky rear window. When I pick the truck up, I noticed the lane keep assist, lane departure warning, intellibeam headlight, forward collision alert, and other functions associated with the window mounted camera system were inoperable. I have an appointment already scheduled for that and will add this for the dealer to investigate. Truck was taken to dealer for recall on 1/7/2020 and I got it back on 1/18/2020 because of the window replacement.
Brake system failure 62 mph top speed; brake warning light; check engine light; abs light; traction control light; steering assist is reduced - drive with care; service trailer brake system. . . . Lights on dash as noted above. Brake pedal makes a clicking; power steering non-existent; brakes will not stop vehicle without max pressure. Happened at low speed. Bumped into cart at store before gaining control. After multiple shut downs and restarts all lights normal except check engine light. Brakes occasionally makes clicking sound without touching them. Mileage 6056.
I started my vehicle on January 7th 2020 at about 4:00pm to return home from work I received multiple warning lights and the check engine light went on. The warns read "break system failure 62 mph too speed", "service esc", "steering assist is reduced drive with care", "service trailer break system". The vehicle would not break properly I would estimate the breaking capacity at 30% from normal. I turned off the vehicle and restarted it about 5 minutes later, all warnings were gone but the check engine light was still luminated, the vehicles performance was reduced and breaking was at about 80% of the normal capacity. I have made an appointment with the dealer for imidiate service I slowly and carefully drove the vehicle home. The vehicle has approximately 1403 miles on it.
When I'm driving at a slow speed turning the truck looses all power and the steering wheel jerks out of my hand, stabilitrak is on the display and it says roll down driver window and roll back up! it also looses all power just driving down the road no matter the speed! I have also been stopped at a stoplight and it lost all power wouldn't come back on so I had to get out pop the hood and bang I. The battery box and cables and it started again! very scary going 75 mph and it shuts off leaving you no steering no brakes no lights no nothing! sometimes it says power steering failure sometimes and sometimes it says stabilitrack problem at something about towing! the brakes were also affected no brakes.
The vehicle was in for replacement back up camera module and the dealer stated that the fix for the active brake system failure recall was completed. After starting the vehicle in a parking lot, several messages displayed in the driver information center: brake system failure 62 mph top speed, service esc, service trailer brake system, service brake assist. Additionally, several warning lights for the abs, parking brake, tcs, check engine light, etc were illuminated. After acknowledging the messages, I placed the vehicle in reverse and noticed that the brakes needed to be pressed with full weight on them to get the vehicle to stop. I placed the vehicle in drive to park back in space and the same issue with the brakes persisted. I turned the vehicle on and off 4 times and the messages finally stopped displaying and the brakes appeared to work as they normally should, although the check engine light remained lit. The vehicle was driven to the dealership and no resolution has been given for the issue to date.
**beware** I own a 2014 GMC Sierra denali that abruptly shuts off on me while driving with no warning. I took in into the delearship and they stated that they fixed it. About a little over a year later it started acting up again off and on. I didnt want to deal with the dealership because they always say "it is not covered under warranty" although it only got worse. I ended up taking it back to the delearship recently because it got to the point where my truck was shutting off on me every day in the middle of the road. This was an accident waiting to happen! the dealership after over one week finally found that it is an electrical harness issue, sending the wrong signals causing my truck to abruptly shut off. They are charging me over $900. This should be a recall! how in the world is this not covered through GMC! I will never purchase a GMC vehicle again.
My 2014 GMC Sierra shuts off while driving on the interstate with my family. In some cases all electrical blinks and it continues to drive while temporarily losing power steering and other features and other times turning off completely until coming to a stop. The dealership wants ~$400 to do diagnostics on a g218 bolt that they were told by GMC that it is related to. This issue came from the factory this way. While not wanting to pay that for the diagnostic and researching myself, I found 100s of videos online similar to the one below which shows this issue happening to owners of the GMC trucks. When I spoke with GMC customer care about this, they told me that there were no recalls on the issue. There are going to be truck owners that lose their life along with any passengers if this issue is not taken care. I am very scare for our safety and the safety of countless others like the link below have posted about this known issue. . Read more...
The truck dies at any moment. Stability track system warning pops up in the little screen and the steering wheel is blocked when this happen. After these to things happens the truck shut down. Sometimes, after a few minutes the truck comes back to normal. This has happened to me for like 10 times in a period of like 15 months. I have taken to the dealer like 6 times and they haven't found the problem. They have change some wires from the battery. They have reprogram the software and nothing I still have the same problem. The truck dies at any moment. All of this happen when I am driving the truck most of the times at low speed and while turning to the left or right except like two times that occurred while I was driving in the highway. The mechanics in the dealer have done all kind of diagnostic that they have but they could not duplicated the problem so the answer that I get every time is that every is fine and that they couldn't duplicated the problem.
The stabilitrak sensor keeps going on and off. I've had this issue when I first got the truck in the end of October in 2017. The dealership could not fix it at first but finally had to fix some wiring. I've seen it go on a few times since then but never stayed on. And for about 2-3 weeks it's been coming on and off but staying more on and not going away now. I feel like this shouldn't happen to a newer truck.
There is a extremely dangerous electrics issue with my 2014 GMC Sierra 1500 all terrain. In the last 18 months my truck has locked the steering at low speed while turning 8 times. (I could have easily broken a finger a lost control of my truck) . On 5 of the times I had steering issue the truck had no power to anything including key fobs for a period of 10 to 15 minutes. Then the truck will power up again. Fortunately these issues have occurred at low speed. This has happen 8 times in the last 18 months . It has been to dealership for service regarding this issue they changed the battery after only 18 months (10/2015) the issue occur again 2 days ago while traveling on the freeway at 70 mph my truck shut down no power then in less than a second it powered up again all the setting on my radio, climate control changed. That day I stopped to get gas got back in my truck pulled away from the pump the steering locked truck shut down again for 20 minutes. This truck is currently at a dealership they still can not diagnos the issue. I'm extremly concern that someone could be seriously injured or killed if this was to happen while operating this truck. I did see that may other owner of GMC Sierra have expressed similar concerns. The issues needs to be addressed immediately. As for myself I plan to this truck after the dealership attempts another repair.
Tl- the contact owns a 2013 GMC Sierra 2500. The contact stated the check engine warning indicator had illuminated. The vehicle was taken to both an independent mechanic and the dealer to be diagnosed. The technicians informed the contact that the diesel reluctant tank assembly would have to be replace. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The vehicle failure mileage 111,000. Kh.
Dashboard has cracked at the air bag. Lifters had to be replaced and now the camshaft is making noises. My traction control keeps shutting itself off and telling me to service it. Really bad wind noise coming from the passenger pillar.
I was sitting in a parking lot with my truck running, I noticed my rpm's were starting to flutter and my oil pressure was doing the same. After a few minutes or so my truck started shaking and the rpm's were still fluttering. While this happened my check engine light came on and it flashed "engine power reduced" "service traction" and then "service stabilitrak. " I then shut my truck off and waited approx. 25 minutes. When I turned my truck back on the rpm's were still fluttering but the truck was no longer shaking. I took my truck to auto-zone the following morning and had a diagnostic done, the trouble code had to do with the throttle position sensor. After that my computer must have reset itself and everything went back to running normally until about two weeks later the same thing happened again.
While driving check engine light, service stabilitrac and service traction control on information center, followed by a reduced power notification. This clears and occurs without warning rendering the mv near useless.
My truck started to activate the brakes in the middle of the 3 lane 680 freeway, doors started to lock and unlock, navigation went dark, muiltiple different displays on dashboard, numer of lights from the air conditioner unit, came on. Acceleration or brakes would not respond, we were unable to drive off the freeway. It was a scary moment, we were lucky that no big rig was following us, or it would had runs us over, and probably killed us.
The contact owns a 2007 GMC Sierra. The contact stated that after starting the vehicle, the service stability track, the service traction control, and the anti lock braking system lights illuminated. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 26,000.
Pulling into a parking spot in a parking garage going no more than 3 miles per hour, or however fast this vehicle can go while foot is resting on break, getting ready to fully break. As I pressed down on break to stop, the vehicle continued as if the anti-lock break system slipped, causing the truck to drive forward crashing through the sheetrock wall and finally stopping after hitting the glass windows. Two weeks later, after all cosmetic repairs were done, the vehicle did the same thing in another parking lot, but luckily broke before hitting the curb and light post. I did feel under my foot on the break peddle, as I pressed down to stop, a slip of some sort which at the same time caused the vehicle to push forward right before stopping. This is definitely a malfunction of some sort with the anti-lock break system.
I was traveling on highway 151 at 70 mph when I received a message stating stabilitrak was disabled, followed by reduced engine power message. Within seconds my truck went from 70 mph to 35 mph while on the highway with a semi-truck behind me, a car in the fast lane on my left side, and snow on the rightside shoulder. I quickly tapped my brakes and put on my right turn signal to notify to the semi-truck driver that I was quickly turning off the highway and drastically reducing my speed lower than the allowed state highway minimum speed limit. Considering the highway traffic and the speed at which my truck reduced speed in such a quick manner, it was a miracle I was not rear-ended by the semi-truck driver. This not only happened to be once on Sunday, but twice on the same day within about 20 miles from the first incident.
I am having serious problems with the stabilitrak electronic stability control system. Whenever it gets cold ( below approx. 38 degrees) the stabilitrak system malfunctions. Even if I turn it off it still affects the performance of the engine (low speed, engine hesitating). The truck runs fine in warmer weather just craps out when its cold. I see that there are many other instances of distressed drivers who are having their ¿trac � ¿stab, abs light and engine lights either going on one at a time or simultaneously because of this system. This is a stupid system that needs to be redesigned or eliminated all together. In any event I don't feel as though I should be the one to pay for the manufactures mistakes in design.
While driving on interstate the engine shut down to 1/2 power and began to shake/vibrate. The top speed then was about 40mph. I finally pulled over and read manual on how to reset it. It worked properly then. This has happened 4 other times. The latest incident happened yesterday, with out using cruise control. Traveling at 30 mph it shut me down again . One of the scariest times , I was traveling in 5 lanes of traffic and it shut me down to half power and it was quite dangerous for us to try and merge out of the way and get off to a safe spot on side of interstate. I called the dealer and they told me there has not been a recall on this issue, but it seems very much like a safety issue with me. The dealer also told me as well as other auto specialist is that this is a common problem with this model of vehicle and that it will cost about 700 dollars to replace the throttle cable assembly.
*issue is warning light and tone that the stabilitrak system requires servicing - this is not the standard warning light that the wheel traction varies* I had a 2011 GMC Sierra which I brought back to the dealership and called GMC about for 6 issues with the stabilitrak warning light. Even with GMC corporate involvement, issue was not corrected despite replacement of numerous sensors, etc. In order to afford to buy a new 2013 vehicle, I traded that truck and another for the above-noted GMC truck and 2-days after the purchase the same problem has occurred at the very same spot on my drive home from work. I called GMC and notified the dealership. They cannot fix the problem so I will wait for three more instances and with driving a loaner car for up to 3-weeks at a time and will involve the lemon law for defects within the first year of ownership. Of course the federal government will do nothing except provide GMC with more taxpayer-funded bailout money! there are numerous complaints online about defects with this complicated system that is so deeply imbedded in the cars' running that it cannot be repaired. What does it take for you to do something about this consumer ripoff????.
About 2 months after we purchased our pre-owned 2009 GMC Sierra denali we started having problems with the engine power and all sensors going off. The sensors start going off the stability control cuts off it says engine power reduced then doesn't want to shift and kills in middle of traffic. It will do it for a few days and then just starts working right again. So we never know when it's going to happen or where we will be. It's like it's not running on all cylinders.
Apparently gm uses peanut oil to lubricate wiring so they can more easily insulate, etc (accorging to the gm dealer). This attracts rats and mice which chew up the wiring - potentially impacting sensors and other items controlling cruise, stability/traction control, and any number of electrical systems that the driver may be relying upon for safety. I actually had map sensor wires chewed up that disabled my stability/traction systems and inhibited engine performance. Luckily for me it happened in my driveway rather than on the highway. Dealer claims it is not warranty item even though caused by a process that gm elects to use in building the vehicle. This could impact any/every vehicle that gm builds with use of peanut oil (may indeed be all of their models).
While driving pulling a boat trailer truck lost all power doors started locking and unlocking continually,all gauges and warning lights come on truck lost power and cuts off loosing breaking and steering, radio resets , speakers not working. Service traction control warning comes up service stabilatrac comes up , service battery/charging system.
Vehicle stalls losing all power to steering and braking capabilities. There is no advanced warning of power loss, it simply quits rendering the driver incapable of steering, moving out of the way of traffic. Has been in certified GMC shop three times, they keep insisting they cannot find problem and the vehicle be picked up. Potential death trap. Not only unsafe for driver but also anyone behind the vehicle.