NHTSA Complaint #10393805 — 2007 GMC YUKON

SUMMARY: 2007 GMC YUKON. INTERIOR DOOR HANDLES. CHROME PLATING HAS SEPARATED FROM THE TOP WHERE HANDLE IS GRABBED. HANDLES ARE RAZOR SHARP AND CARE IS NEEDED WHEN OPENING DOOR OTHERWISE INJURY CAN AND HAS OCCURRED. I KIND OF DISREGARDED THIS, LATER WE RECEIVED A LETTER IN THE MAIL STATING WE SHOULD TAKE IT TO A DEALER FOR REPAIR!! ANY HOW WHAT I AM EXTREMELY WORRIED IS WITH MY NEW PROBLEM ... IN EARLY FEBRUARY WE ARRRIVED FROM OUT OF TOWN, I WAS DRIVING ANOTHER CAR... I JUMPED IN MY YUKON READY TO TAKE MY KIDS TO BASEBALL PRACTICE I HAD JUST DRIVEN ABOUT 5 MILES WHEN MY TRUCK READ REDUCING ENGINE TIME AND IT WOULD NOT LET ME ACCELARATE ABOVE 20 OR 30 MILES DONT REMEMBER WAS TOOO SCARED... I MANAGED TO PULL OVER AND TURNED THE CAR OFF AND ON AGAIN AFTER A FEW OF THOSE I MANAGED THE COURAGE TO DRIVE SLOWLY BACK HOME... I WAITED FOR MY HUSBAND TO COME HOME ASKED HIM TO TAKE MY CAR FOR A DRIVE AND MAGICALLY IT STARTED JUST FINE, AFTER A FEW DAYS, THE SAME THING HAPPEN BUT NOW THIS TIME IT SHUT OFF AND WHILE I WAS DROPPING MY KIDS OFF AT SCHOOL RIGHT IN FRONT , WHERE THERE ARE KIDS CROSSING AND CARS GOING!! COULD HAVE CAUSE A SERIOUS INJURY. HAD A MECHANIC LOOK AT IT, SAID HE NEEDED TO CLEAN SUM THINGS SAID THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE HAVING THESE PROBLEMS HIS BUDDY WORKED AT COACHELLA VALLEY PONTIAC GMC AND THAT DEALERS REALLY DONT KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEMS ARE... WORKED FINE FOR BOUT A MONTH AND THIS MORNING THE SAMETHING HAPPENED ONLY THIS TIME IT DIDNT TURN OFF IT : REDUCED SPEED AND I WAS NOT ABLE TO PULL OVER AS THERE WAS NO ROOM TO SO I MANAGED TO GET TO A STOP SIGN WHEN I GOT THERE AND STOPPED MY CAR STARTED SHAKING I WAS SO SCARED, I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO TURNED THE CAR OF ON OF ON... NOTHING I MANAGED TO DRIVE TO A SIDE OF THE ROAD MEANWHILE MY CAR IS SHAKING LIKE CRAZY... THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED !! I THINK GMC NEEDS TO ACT NOW I M SCARED TO DRIVE MY CAR, IM EVEN THINKING OF HAVING IT TOWED TO GMC FOR REPAIR!! *TR