Consumer Complaint Detail

CHEVROLET / MALIBU / 2001

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Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 007114362 Incident Date: Jul, 27 2007
Consumer's City: MONROE Consumer's State: NC
Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC
Model Name: MALIBU Model Year: 2001
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Vehicle speed control
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: 1G1ND52J816 Date added to File: May, 23 2021
Date Complaint Received: Aug, 04 2007 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Dec, 20 2005
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 6 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: Was driving car just pulled off from a red light making a left turn and car started to pull forward then could not steer myself went off road almost into trees then jerked itself left pulling back to road and onto oncoming traffic then stopped was able to drive home slowly w/ hazards on. 2nd incident was driving and car started to pull /jerk forward fast tried to put on brakes and was very difficult to bring car to a stop almost felt like was not going to stop w/all my pressure applying to brakes was still hard to stop car. all 4 incidents were similar in that car kind of took off on it's own and was not controllable as far as steering or braking. this car is in local chevrolet dealership for last few days for them to find/correct this problem our daughter is driving this car and it's not safe right now for her to drive. the dealership can not find the problem. first they thought anti lock brakes had a glitch, or the transmission,but car is not doing this when they take for short drives and they can not pin point this problem. ,but there is most certainly a problem. i do not want my child to get hurt or worse driving this vehicle b/c no one can detect the problem. also car had a burning rubbery/like a belt smell before at least 2 of these incidents. all belts check out ok. no problems. i have a relative that had a chev van that in last year or so car basically took off on it's own at a speed of 50mph. could not stop vehicle was putting all weight pressure on brake car finally came to a stop. prob wound up being a computer chip in transmission triggered the cruise control computer chip transmission had to be changed . please check into this to see if related to our issue. thank you. *jb