P182E

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2014 BUICK ENCLAVE with 107500. miles

Takata recall in the almost 3 years i've owned my 2014 Buick Enclave, there have been 2 occurrences with the same transmission issue. The codes are: P0700, P182E and P0306. The engine light comes on and flashes for roughly 30 seconds. The first occurrence was in the city, about 35mph and the second was on the highway with a speed of 60mph. Both times i've pulled off the road and the light disappears. When i take it in, the codes are pulled and cleared. The mechanic can not get the code to reappear. My Buick has never shifted right, noticing padding and jerking before and after switching gears. The mechanic said this is a common problem with these transmissions and the repair bill will be around $3,500.00 for a new transmission. A 5 year old vehicle should not be having these issues!! Buying a 2 year old vehicle at $28k, owning it for less than 3 years and having to replace the transmission does not sit right in my book. Gm needs to fix this transmission problem and soon!
POWER TRAIN,

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2013 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE with 34800.0 miles

This has now occurred twice within the past 30 days. While in motion, the vehicle transmissions jerks, and speed is immediately reduced to 5mph. The stability control light comes on as does the check engine light. A remote diagnostics scan from on-star identified 3 error codes: C0561, P0700, P182E. The first time it occurred while exiting a highway off-ramp. This vehicle was taken to the dealership. The dealership informed me that there were no know issues related to this, no recalls, and no service bulletins existed describing this behavior for the 2013 model year. They were unable to recreate the problem and returned the vehicle to me. This happened again yesterday while approaching an intersection and slowing from ~35mph with traffic close behind. This is an extremely dangerous system behavior which could have easily resulted in a severe incident in a dangerous intersection. While the vehicle is in the state where the stability control light is on we observed hard transmission shifting/jerking into and out of park, reverse, neutral, and drive. We turned the vehicle off for 15 minutes. Upon restarting, normal operations were restored with the exception of the check engine light. The check engine light turned off after ~25-30 miles of driving.
ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL, POWER TRAIN VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

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2010 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE with 114000. miles

June 2016, approx. 114,000 mi - felt a lurch in stop & go traffic; flashed "service stabilitrak," "service traction control," "backup alerts = off". The check engine light appeared. A few miles down the road when traffic sped up, i realized i only had one gear and could not accelerate above 60mph. A serious problem on the interstate! Several hours later, the check engine light remained on, but the car drove normally -- straight to the repair shop, where it was deemed to need $2400 in transmission repair due to the following fault codes: P182E & C0561. They will replace the transmission mode shift sensor and the transmission control module. The mechanic also informed us that we will eventually need a $700 repair for the control arms in the rear suspension -- ge has corrected a known fault in the parts. All this is on top of a $3000 repair done in april 2015 at 92,500 mi. For known steering defects. In that case, as the Traverse warmed up, the power steering got hard to turn. Gm repaired part of the problem at no cost, replacing power steering pump and gear housing. Another mechanic completed the replacement of the rack and pinion assembly that was also part of the problem. These are both substantial defects and repairs needed in a vehicle that was expected to last much longer before needing more than routine maintenance.
STEERING, POWER TRAIN ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL

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2010 CHEVROLET EQUINOX with 63320.0 miles

The check engine light came on while driving with code P0017 crankshaft position - camshaft position correlation (bank 1 sensor b). The next day while driving two more codes came on including P0700 and P182E (i have on obd reader). At that moment the engine continued to run but the transmission appeared to go into a neutral condition. This occured while driving @ 30 mph. I was able to coast to the side of the street. At that point i could rev the engine but their was no forward drive to move the vehicle. After letting the car sit in an off condition for a couple of minutes, i was the able to restart the vehicle and drive home. I then brought the car to the dealer for further diagnostics as there are several components which could cause this error code. The dealer then concluded that the timing chain had apparently stretched and was causing the camshaft position sensor to trip. I was told that the repair was very extensive and of course costly as the motor has to be removed from the vehicle in order to replace the stretched timing chain. I started researching the error code online and came across a service bulletin (sb-10052863-6133) published in 2014 by general motors detailing a newer timing chain kit that was released to address this stretching issue. Several general motors models are included in the bulletin as they all utilize the same v6 3.0 liter engine as what is in my Equinox. My major gripe is that the consumer should have been made aware of the potential premature failure of the timing chain sooner, before the warranty period expired. General motors had a similar issue with timing chain failures in their 4 cylinder 2.4 liter engines and an official recall was done for that engine. I feel this same condition is now started to affect the v6 3.0 liter as well.
POWER TRAIN,