2010 Chevrolet Equinox Acceleration Problems

Which parts fail

• Accelerator pedal
  1

Components named in complaints (accelerator pedal, throttle, sudden acceleration, cruise control).

Mileage when the problem started

• Under 25k
  519%
• 25k–50k
  00%
• 50k–75k
  519%
• 75k–100k
  623%
• 100k–150k
  623%
• 150k+
  415%

Owner reports

Selected complaints filed with NHTSA by 2010 Chevrolet Equinox owners, lightly cleaned up (personal details are redacted by NHTSA).

The contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. The contact stated that upon starting the vehicle, the check engine warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who diagnosed that the exhaust module and the camshaft actuators needed to be replaced. The contact stated that the vehicle was repaired; however, while driving at 60 MPH, the warning message "Reduced Power" illuminated. The contact stated that he immediately veered to the side of the road. The contact stated that he heard abnormal knocking sounds coming from the engine. The contact turned off and restarted the vehicle. The contact stated that he continued to drive the vehicle; however, the failure reoccurred while driving. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who diagnosed that the accelerator pedal had failed. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. …

Tl* the contact owned a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. While driving approximately 45 MPH, one of the tires on the passenger side exploded and caused the driver's air bag to deploy without warning. There were no injuries from the deployment. The contact pulled the vehicle over to the side of the road. Suddenly, the vehicle accelerated and crashed into the guardrail. The contact suffered head injuries that required medical attention. A police report was filed. The vehicle was destroyed and towed. The dealer (scoville-meno Chevrolet GMC, 8 s main st, bainbridge, ny 13733, [phone]) was contacted. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The VIN was not available. The failure mileage was 142,000. Carfax not able to process VIN updated 9/26/18

While driving on city streets, my gas pedal became unresponsive. The car began to slow down. Unable to keep my speed, I was unable to make a stoplight and had to stop. While my foot was on the brakes, the RPM for my vehicle were steadily at 6-7000. As the light turned green, I put my foot on the gas pedal, received a jolt as if the car was accelerating, but was slowly making my way up to 20 MPH. As the time took near 30 seconds to make the climb on a flat road to 20 MPH, I decided for my safety to hit my emergency flashers. Around that time, the check engine light came on. I pulled to a side street and hit 'OnStar'. They were able to give me two codes that appeared. P0776 and p0700. While talking to OnStar, my car was in park and again the engine was pushing 7000 rpms. I was barely able to make it to my house as the car was barely able to maintain it's speed. …

2010 Chevrolet Equinox all of a sudden lost traction control and drop speed to 15 miles per hour. Error light came on stating "engine power reduction" and then "service ". Along with these error messages the icon for engine and stabilitrak came on after car lost most of its pwlower and traction. It was a cold night christmas 2016 but not as cold as other cities as we live in phoenix, az. Thankfully I was in our neighborhood when my [redacted] daughter and I lost power instead of being on the freeway but this is a major safety issue with these cars. I've recently read many complaints from Equinox owners who've dealt with this same issue. The dealership said it was the throttle body and solenoid valves and charged me $850.00 for a repair that I truly feel needs to be under a recall given the safety issue of losing power and traction while driving without warning!!! …

Vehicle was in motion approximately 45 MPH when check engine light came on, message then appeared that engine power is reduced and speed immediately dropped to around 15 MPH and then to a rough idle at approx 5-10mph. Was almost rear ended by vehicle traveling behind me. I was able to limp remaining 2 miles home and contacted dealer. Appointment was made and dealer reported code p2135 and replaced throttle body..dealer said throttle didn't know up from down. Dealer stated this is a common problem with the Equinox. I have read many complaints online about this same issue with other owners reporting being put in a dangerous position with the sudden drop in speed like we were. I contacted Chevy GM and they said there were no recalls. If rapid acceleration has been treated by other companies as recall worthy, I dont understand why Chevy does not consider this recall worthy. …

While driving, vehicle failed to accelerate and would not shift into next gear, then seemed to jump into higher gear. This caused me to almost be hit by motor vehicle behind me. Second time, I was turning into busy intersection and car completely stalled, turned off key and restarted car and it would not drive over 20 miles an hour so pulled into parking lot and wheel was very hard to control. Car would not go into reverse. Was left stranded on side of road and had vehicle towed to Chevy. Has oil consumption issues but recently purchased car and passed date for recalls and warranty repair. GM needs to offer all previous expired to people such as myself who purchase used vehicles that were never corrected during recall times.also my VIN was not listed in recall but has the exact issues. This was confirmed by GM.

"Takata recall" while driving and approaching a stop sign on a city street in town, the car started aggressively shaking and several lights turned on - service stabilitrack, engine power reduced mode and the check engine light- thankfully we were able to safely pull off the road as the car would not exceed 25mph. After the first time we took it in and they flushed the throttle body. Less than 2 moths later the exact same problem occurred while driving in town. Took it back in and they completely replaced the throttle body. Here we are a few months later and now the car will not even start with the same icons appearing on the dash! If this were to happen on the freeway at 65 MPH and it kick me down to 25 MPH that is a serious accident waiting to happen.

While driving vehicle doors are locking and unlocking themselves, radio and heat turns off and on, blinkers not working,headlights flash on and off by themselves, airbag, stability control and ABS flash on and off on dash. RPM and speedometer are at zero while driving and accelerating, gas hand shows on low fuel when there's gas on the car. Took to have vehicle scanned and alternator is reading at too high voltage and revived 15 error codes all relating to speed sensor, engine and transmission control model malfunction, power train control module and camshaft position circuit errors etc.

Tl* the contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. While driving 75 MPH, the reduced engine power warning indicator illuminated and the vehicle independently decelerated to 15 MPH. The contact stated that the failure was more prevalent during the colder months. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic where it was diagnosed that the throttle body needed to be cleaned. The vehicle was repaired, but the failure recurred. The contact stated that the failure was intermittent. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 100,000.

Car completely lost power on the highway while engine running. Engine went to idle. Nearly hit by other cars traveling on the highway. Had the car towed to my local mechanic. Car was throwing code p2135 which is throttle position sensor. I did some research on this code and there is a Chevy bulletin regarding this exact code and the engine going to idle while driving. I'm surprised this is not a recall as this is very dangerous and appears to be a common issue.

Acceleration complaints in other Equinox years