i have a silver cobalt ss

i only had 8000 highway miles

i was doing around 20 mph with my girl in the car and the car bucked real bad for no reason
i pulled over put it in reverse then foward then reverse (whatever it was it fixed the problem that night)

i thought maybe it was just the front end so i called GM and they set me up an appointment

2 days later i was driving to work in the morning and the car bucked so bad i hit my head on the stearing wheel

the tranny then had a hole in it and GM is trying to say its my fault and they dont wanna cover it under the warrenty(<--- dont know how to spell that word right now)


im not to happy about my situation


-Passenger side automatic window is slightly weaker than driver side. and thats a problem to its really ******* slow

 

i really hate how it's not becoming apparent to GM that all these SS's are having the same problem. they just try to deny the fact that maybe there are some faulty trannys out there and it's just consumer abuse. what the hell.

that really sucks, i hope it all works out in your favor.

 

you put it in forward?

 

dont let them get away with saying its your fault. politely and professionally tell them you are going to get your lawyer involved, that might change their minds. if not, DO get a lawyer, document every problem you have with the car whether its related to the tranny or not, and try to get other Cobalt owners with the same problems do the same. DOCUMENT these problems by takingit do the dealer and explaining the problem and make sure you get a service invoice with details on it. the second they hear your lawyer say "class action lawsuit" they will not only cover your car under warranty but you will probably get a new tranny out of it.

it may seem like a stretch, but it has worked in the past with other auto manufacturers, very recently as a matter of fact. good luck getting this taken care of.

 

So your the one with the silver one in oceanside you pasted me on the highway one night and i floowed you a little but than went home to baldwin. If that was you of course. Yeah the tranny problem.... mine is acting up too been for a while i just keep bringing it in and having it documented that I'm saying there is a tranny prob and there not fixing it so when it finally does blow there won't be any arguement. What dealer did you buy it from?

 

just out of curiosity, are yalls transmissions really hard to put in first when it is cold? like the clutch isnt working right?

 

Remeber that when its cold theres a tendecy for all the gear to be a lil difficult, from my understanding to the gears are just need to warm up. But it may also be something serious, whenever in doubt get it checked.

With all these stories and sumtimes i do wonder about my tranny as soon as i get back from vaca Im having it checked out.

 

for sum 1 who has been waiting fo a while to buy there SS... (me) reading these post's day after day, puts sum fear into me. Can't help but fear a lil bit when i get it, its gunna break. (I guess we shouldn't have used the saab trans)

 

well I have 17,000 miles of hard drivng on my car in 6 months so its about time sumthing acts up.

 

I was wondering the same thing, I'm assuming he means first.

As for the other question, YES, the tranny is damn near impossible to get into 1st when it's cold. That and my clutch absolutely WILL NOT GRAB when it's cold. It's really annoying but there's not much I can do to control it. The car is in the garage at night, the only time it sits out is when I'm at work.

 

yeah my clutch won't grab worth a damn now thats it cold. Between the cold weather, extra boost from my pully, and shitty stock clutch I don't even bother with first gear any more I rather just grunt out second from a stop to get moving in every day traffic. Wonder if thats doing more damage than good though?

 

call gm corporate and tell them that your having issues w/ the trans that it blew out w/ only 8000 miles, and that the dealer is giving you a hard time saying it was my fault. they'll call that dealer and tell them to replace it, hell they might even issue u a whole new car.

 

I have an 05 Cobalt Base and my transmission is a royal pain in the ass to get into first or reverse when its really cold out. My Cavalier was never like that, but that car had a huge amount of miles on it.

Sometimes letting the clutch all the way out in neutral and stuffing it back in makes it a little easier to get into gear. Once the car warms up, its ok.

Scott

 

yeah thats me and the fact is they said to me today over the phone that i beat it to **** and did that to it when the clutch IS PERFECT and tires have only a LITTLE extra wear on the front from when i chirped them. And i can successfully say i never have done one burnout and look at what happens. I give people fair warning not to buy this car from the company cause they were rude to me (they assume that i am 19 and I dont know any better and mommy bought me my car so beat it) When i put my own money down and im making payments and i work at a bank why the hell should i be treated so poorly.


sooo now im taking them to court cause when i bought the car it drove fine untill, i had less than a thousand miles i brought it in to be serviced because the front end was making noise in the drivetrain, they checked it out and said it was fine so now look where i am. And i have documents prooving this so hopefully i get my tranny done.

 

That really sucks man hate to hear it. I bought my car from paul conte chevy righ there in freeport and they have never gave me a problem yet and they know about my tranny problem and have documented it. the service manager guy told me when or if it fails they will just replace it since i keep bitching about it.

 

[QUOTE=*TRIX*](they assume that i am 19 and I dont know any better and mommy bought me my car so beat it) When i put my own money down and im making payments and i work at a bank why the hell should i be treated so poorly.
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Not to get too far off topic, I had to go to 3 dealers before they'd even LET ME test drive the Cobalt SS/SC (I'm 26).

 

weird...my tranny acts fine in the cold...well as normal as the rest of my cars did. every car ive ever had was hard to put in first when it was cold out. its an problem that all manual transmissions have. i ALWAYS drive my car normally for the first couple of runs through the transmission before i get on it. havent experienced a problem yet. how many cases of tranny problems on this website does this make?

 

[QUOTE=Spastic Chicken]yeah but i came with 5000 in cash

 

well, I abuse the F*** out of mine, so if it breaks it is my fault.

 

Let us know about the issues with the tranny (having them fix it). Mine did similar things like bucking and about threw me out of my seat (seatbelt held me back though). One thing I wanted to note when I made my transition from 2nd to 3rd that's when mine was happening.... god did it hurt

I don't pull my car out of storage till the 1st of March but I can tell you one thing, if my trans is still pulling that same **** right before I put it away your damn straight they are replacing it. They can't say I must have screwed it up or drove hard in the winter or did stupid things with it because it's been in storage and they have it documented.. hah!

I have my contacts to higher ups at GM and they will hear wind from me if it doesn't get corrected. Trust me, I'll climb that damn ladder so high to the corporate chain till they will be sick of hearing from me.

 

I cant downshift in first at a stop when its cold forget about that. Sometimes its hard to get into first on startup. I never go or stop on second allways first. Kinda sucks when you cant shift...

WoT it shifts great thought so im happy!

 

the transmission should never be hard to put in gear when it is cold outside they dont use gear oil in them anymore and back in the day gear oil when it was cold out did make it hard to go in first bt after they started using auto transmission fluid in them that fixed the cold wearther blues i would say the problem is that they put substandard parts in the box that will not take much abuse let gm should have pt a german getrag in these cars because they are one tough bastard of a transmission ive had a few in my daytonas that ive built gm built a good and reliable power plant but the cut it short in the tranny department

mrb

 

It even says in the owners manual that if it's hard to put in gear, put it back in nuetral, and deress the clutch again.

 

Done. GM put the head engineer on the phone with me, so I told him:

"Mr. Belvedere from Cobaltss.net demanded that I tell you to put the german getrag in your Cobalt SS/SC's from now on and stop using substandard parts." He then proceeded to tell me that he (and the entire engineering team) had their heads up their asses this whole time and thanked me profusely for Mr. Belvedere's knowledge and insight.

 

The base cars have Getrags...
Aren't the SS/SC transaxles made by Saab?

Scott