NHTSA Complaint #10273675 — 2006 CHEVROLET COLORADO

TRUCK WILL GO INTO REDUCED POWER MODE WHILE DRIVING. WHEN IT DOES THIS IT WILL CHIME A FEW TIMES AND THEN DROP THE SPEED YOU ARE DRIVING AT TO WHATEVER IT WANTS USUALLY IT'S 40 TO 20 MPH, YOU CANNOT GO ANY FASTER, AND THERE IS NO WARNING TO THIS AT ALL, AND NO PATTERN AS TO WHEN IT WILL DO THIS. BUT IT HAS ALWAYS DONE IT WHILE I HAVE BEEN DRIVING. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED AND LUCKILY NO ONE HIT ME THAT WAS BEHIND ME. I HAVE HAD MY TRUCK INTO A DEALERSHIP FIVE TIMES, THE FIRST TWO TIMES WAS TO MILLS IN RICHWOOD, WHICH THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH THE TRUCK AS THE ENGINE WASN'T THROWING A CODE, AND THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A BAD SENSOR BUT DIDN'T KNOW WHICH ONE SO THEY SENT ME ON MY WAY. THE THIRD AND FOURTH TIME I TOOK IT TO ROBY'S. THE THIRD TIME THEY REPLACED THE BATTERY AND SAID THAT WAS IT, THE FOURTH TIME THEY CALLED GMC AND SAID MY ENGINE NEEDED A NEW CODE IN IT. TWO WEEKS AFTER THAT THE REDUCED POWER LIGHT COMES ON AND I ALMOST GET KILLED ON THE FREEWAY. I THEN TOOK IT TO CHESROWN AND THEY REPLACED A SENSOR IN THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE PROBLEM REALLY IS AND I'M SCARED TO DEATH I'M GOING TO GET KILLED BECAUSE MY TRUCK DOES THIS ALL THE TIME WITHOUT WARNING AND THE PROBLEM IS GETTING WORSE AS BEFORE IT WOULD BE ALMOST HALF A YEAR TO A FEW MONTHS BETWEEN PROBLEMS, NOW IT'S GETTING TO BE EVERY COUPLE OF WEEKS. THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE I BOUGHT THE TRUCK IN MAY 2006 AND I AM TERRIFIED TO DRIVE FOR FEAR THAT THE REDUCE POWER IS GOING TO KICK IN AND SOMEONE WILL BE BEHIND ME WHEN IT HAPPENS AND HIT ME AND KILL ME. *TR