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I have occasionally been driving and suddenly the traction control light will flash on, then off, followed instantly, sometimes appearing before the first one disappears, by the "BRAKE!" light, on then off, then a quick flash of the ABS light. No chimes, no breaking issues, new pads & roters. Generally once these lights go off, the Passlock Protection one comes on and stays on (until shut down). No start-up issues that I've read can be related to that... just a Gremlin there, I think.
Last week at a stop light, right after the flashes, I was stopped at a light & it suddenly died. Put it in park, started right back up. No hesitation, no odd noises. Didn't do that again until today. This time when it cut out (it was in Auto Stop mode), it started itself up on it's own.
Given the regenerative braking technology in these cars, and the 3 lights being in the same system, does anyone have a clue (before I embark down the road of one repair after another not correcting the problem), does anyone know if there is ANY way a breaking/regenerative system issue might be related to the engine cutouts on this type of system?
When they were working on these, they saw metal chips in the brake fluid. So that had to be drained out, flushed and replaced.
Total cost in Las Vegas for all of this was $1,827.
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I will be taking the vehicle in hoping it is a sensor problem and that I am not forking out a ton of money like the last issue I had which was with the transmission wave plate and I lost 3 and 5th gears when the vehicle only had 99,000 kms. on it. Had it not been for great forums like this, I would not have known that GM issued a TSB on it...and you could bring your vehicle to a GM dealer and they would repair. Several people on the forum did not find this out till they paid out of pocket and were waiting for reimbursement from GM. The issue was in GM, Saturn and Buick vehicles, all using this faulty transmission in production. And was there a recall on this...no..which pisses me off becuase when your tranny goes on the highway and you can't pull over...the liklihood of being rear-ended at high speed is very probable. I miss the good old days when vehicles were simply to work on and affordable to maintain and or repair. I guess this is the price we pay for having bells and whistles that ultimately stop working! Pissed off Saturn owner from Canada.
I will report back on what the issue is once determined and hopefully resolved!