I work for a car rental company, and I have to run rental cars up to the airport alot. I have noticed what seems to be an odd glitch in the Cobalt's programming. It's snowy and icy up here now, and if the tires are spinning at all while the autotrans shifts up a gear it just stops accelerating. But not like traction assist, I mean that for a good 6-7 seconds the car will sit at 40 km/h no mater how much or little throttle you give it. And it happens on all Cobalts & G5s, including the base models (without traction assist). Also the ones with ABS and traction assist are even worse cause if you are on really slipper / polished ice the traction assist cuts the gas completely and once again, won't let you go. And it hasn't just happend to me once, it's happens quite a bit. It doesn't seem to happen if you drive really gingerly, but more when you give a fair amount of gas.
Why it bothers me is that it's kinda damgerous. When you try to merge into fast moving traffic, and the car is decides to cut the throttle and hold you at 20 km/h it's kinda scary.
The obvious solution is just ease up on the throttle, but usually if you are giving it alot of gas, you are doing it cause you want to go, and that's when it happens.
Any ideas why it does it? and has anyone else ever had it happen?
On a somewhat unrelated note, I also learned that if you take your foot off the gas in a Chrysler 300 when the traction controle is working the car will stall. And then it takes about half a minute before it will shift back into drive.
Well if you want to go and your wheels are spinning your not going to go either are you?
05 M6 YJ GTO 1 of 447 12.767@109.93
Sappy96 wrote:Well if you want to go and your wheels are spinning your not going to go either are you?
Right, but you ease up on the throttle briefly and stop the spinning. But this thing freezes your speed completely,.
Jonathan wrote:I work for a car rental company, and I have to run rental cars up to the airport alot. I have noticed what seems to be an odd glitch in the Cobalt's programming. It's snowy and icy up here now, and if the tires are spinning at all while the autotrans shifts up a gear it just stops accelerating. But not like traction assist, I mean that for a good 6-7 seconds the car will sit at 40 km/h no mater how much or little throttle you give it. And it happens on all Cobalts & G5s, including the base models (without traction assist). Also the ones with ABS and traction assist are even worse cause if you are on really slipper / polished ice the traction assist cuts the gas completely and once again, won't let you go. And it hasn't just happend to me once, it's happens quite a bit. It doesn't seem to happen if you drive really gingerly, but more when you give a fair amount of gas.
Why it bothers me is that it's kinda damgerous. When you try to merge into fast moving traffic, and the car is decides to cut the throttle and hold you at 20 km/h it's kinda scary.
The obvious solution is just ease up on the throttle, but usually if you are giving it alot of gas, you are doing it cause you want to go, and that's when it happens.
Any ideas why it does it? and has anyone else ever had it happen?
On a somewhat unrelated note, I also learned that if you take your foot off the gas in a Chrysler 300 when the traction controle is working the car will stall. And then it takes about half a minute before it will shift back into drive.
My 05 Ion doesn't have TC and it will do this also. I thought maybe there was something wrong with the car, but with this post I see it's not. It's just GM trying to save you from replacing the engine/transmission/tires.
I do agree it can be dangerous in traffic though. I find if you move it down to L it will snap out of it pretty quick.
Red 2005 Saturn Ion-3 Coupe
yeah put the car into 1st or Low gear and it will turn off the traction assist thingy. I have an 06 Cobalt SS S/C and i just spin like crazy, this car is crap in the snow.
2006 Black Cobalt SS Supercharged G85
13.91@102.77
Jonathan wrote:
On a somewhat unrelated note, I also learned that if you take your foot off the gas in a Chrysler 300 when the traction controle is working the car will stall. And then it takes about half a minute before it will shift back into drive.
that freaked me out when that happened to me. I was drifting one and got off the gas for a second and it died on me.... not cool. but i had traction control off when it happened
AutoFreak57 (97redgt) wrote:Jonathan wrote:
On a somewhat unrelated note, I also learned that if you take your foot off the gas in a Chrysler 300 when the traction controle is working the car will stall. And then it takes about half a minute before it will shift back into drive.
that freaked me out when that happened to me. I was drifting one and got off the gas for a second and it died on me.... not cool. but i had traction control off when it happened
Actually so did I. but you can never turn it completely off. I think the stability controle stays on or something.
Jonathan wrote:AutoFreak57 (97redgt) wrote:Jonathan wrote:
On a somewhat unrelated note, I also learned that if you take your foot off the gas in a Chrysler 300 when the traction controle is working the car will stall. And then it takes about half a minute before it will shift back into drive.
that freaked me out when that happened to me. I was drifting one and got off the gas for a second and it died on me.... not cool. but i had traction control off when it happened
Actually so did I. but you can never turn it completely off. I think the stability controle stays on or something.
hold the button down for a second. same thing with beemers.
-JaysonZ24- wrote:yeah put the car into 1st or Low gear and it will turn off the traction assist thingy. I have an 06 Cobalt SS S/C and i just spin like crazy, this car is crap in the snow.
Winterforce M+S Tires on 16" steelies. I went thro over 18" snow drifts and 12" of unplowed parking lots. My SS/SC just plowed the roaded. Unbelieveable how amazing those tires did on snow.
