NHTSA Complaint #11279230 — 2014 CHEVROLET MALIBU

MY MOTHER WAS DRIVING THE CAR ON THE HIGHWAY DOING 70 MILES CAR LOST POWER AND WOULDN'T GO OVER 35 MILES ON HER WAY TO WORK CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON ALMOST GOT HIT BY SEVERAL CARS THAT WERE DOING 70 MILES DUE TO THE CAR WILL ONLY GO 35 MILES ON THE HIGHWAY SHE IMMEDIATELY PULLED OVER ON THE SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY I CAME AND BROUGHT A BLUETOOTH SCAN TOOL THE SCAN TOOL CAME BACK WITH THESE TWO CODES P0700 P0776 WHICH WERE TRANSMISSION CODES AND JUST LIKE OTHER SIMILAR COMPLAINTS FROM THE OTHER COMMENTS MY MOM ALMOST GOT REAR-ENDED SEVERAL TIMES BECAUSE OF THIS AND FROM WHAT I'VE YOUTUBE AND SEE ON THIS SITE THAT SEEMS TO BE A PRETTY COMMON ISSUE WITH THOSE CARS AND THEIR TRANSMISSIONS THAT DEFINITELY NEEDS TO BE RECALLED MY MOTHER HAD TO PAY $4,000 TO GET HER TRANSMISSION REBUILT WE BOUGHT THE CAR BRAND NEW AND IT WAS SHIFTING ROUGH JUST LIKE THE OTHER COMPLAINTS WERE TALKING ABOUT ON THIS SITE WE WENT TO THE DEALERSHIP THEY TOLD US IT WAS NORMAL BUT THAT'S WHAT ALL OF THOSE CARS DO IS SHIFT ROUGH I TOLD THEM THAT DIDN'T SOUND NORMAL TO ME AND IF THEY COULD PLEASE CHANGE THE TRANSMISSION FLUID THEY SAID IT WASN'T TIME YET THE CAR ONLY HAD 20,000 MILES DURING THAT TIME FRAMEWE STILL ARGUE WITH THE GUY HE TOLD US FIND WILL CHANGE THE TRANSMISSION FLUID BUT I'M TELLING YOU IT'S NORMAL WE GOT OUR RECEIPT BACK AND ALL THEY DID WAS OIL CHANGE NEVER EVEN TOUCHED THE TRANSMISSION WE TOOK IT TO A TRANSMISSION SHOP THEY TOLD US THE TRANSMISSION WAS SHOT AND NEEDED TO BE REBUILT THE FLUID WAS BLACK THE TRANSMISSION SHOP TOLD US IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN READ WHEN THE TRANSMISSION WENT BAD IT HAD 60,000 MILES ON IT THEN PLEASE DO AN INVESTIGATION ON THE 2014 CHEVY MALIBU TRANSMISSIONS THERE IS DEFINITELY AN ISSUE THERE THAT I BELIEVED COULD CAUSE AN ACCIDENT ESPECIALLY ON THE HIGHWAY