NHTSA Complaint #10357072 — 2005 PONTIAC VIBE

2005 PONTIAC VIBE'S CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON, THE CAR STARTED RUNNING ROUGH, AND THEN THE CAR DIED. THE CAR WOULD NOT START AND A WRECKER HAD TO BE CALLED. THE MECHANIC WAS ABLE TO START THE CAR SOME OF THE TIME BUT IT WOULD START RUNNING ROUGH AND WOULD DIE WHILE THE CAR WAS BEING DRIVEN. I HAD READ A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ABOUT A RECALL TO START MID SEPTEMBER ON 2005-2008 VIBES DUE TO A DEFECTIVE ENGINE CONTROL MODULE. MY CAR SEEMED TO BE EXPERIENCING THE SAME PROBLEMS. OUR MECHANIC AGREED THIS SEEMED TO BE THE PROBLEM. OUR MECHANIC COULD NOT RESOLVE THE PROBLEM BUT FOUND RECALL INFO ONLINE AND REFERRED US TO GM. GM SAID THERE WAS NO RECALL INFO. ON THE COMPUTER AND COULD NOT DO ANYTHING JUST YET. WE TOOK THE CAR TO A GM DEALERSHIP. IT STALLED TWICE GETTING THERE WITH OUR MECHANIC DRIVING SINCE HE HAD BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO DRIVING IT TO DIAGNOSE THE PROBLEM. THE DEALERSHIP COULD NOT GET THE CAR TO REPEAT THE PROBLEM THE NEXT DAY. THE CAR IS CURRENTLY AT THE DEALERSHIP AND THEY WILL TRY TO START THE CAR TOMORROW (9/23/10). *TR