You know, I am planning on filing with NHTSA as well, if my dealer/GM won't do anything about it. Let us know how your dealer handles it; I'm curious what I will be in for when I take mine in.

 

Nice move SRogers

 

I finally got my car into the dealership. They looked at it and confirmed the ignition is way too loose and they are ordering me a new one. I asked how they could let other dealers know that the problem most likely lies with this loose ignition and he said its all in house and that GM looks at all the problems coming in. If they find that there are enough complaints with this one problem a service bulletin is issued and then all the dealerships are notified but as of right now there is NO bulletin on this issue. SO, its important for everyone to take their car in and get a new ignition and or at least confirm your ignition is ok. He said he'll call friday when the part arrives and it should only take about an hr. Hopefully my car will never die again when hitting a pot hole!!! Good job Pitbull76!! Be sure to file complaints with the NHTSA, its important.

 

The HHR does NOT have that fuel shut off feature.
The cars that do, require a manual reset after activation before they will restart.

 

Thanks Dave C....

Members have debated that issue a couple of times in various threads. Some just don't believe it.

I'm not sure which I believe....but I lean with your statement.

 

I hope this fixes it for you. My dealership is still waiting on one of the parts to fix other problems with my car, so I haven't taken it in yet. I will probably call them later today or tomorrow and tell them to schedule an appt to just do all of the items that they have received, since the part they have not received is giving me the least trouble.

 

Here are the only conditions that will shut the fuel off for the HHR.

Fuel Cutoff Mode
The control module cuts OFF fuel from the fuel injectors when the following conditions are met in order to protect the powertrain from damage and improve driveability:

• The ignition is OFF. This prevents engine run-on.

• The ignition is ON but there is no ignition reference signal. This prevents flooding or backfiring.

• The engine speed is too high, above red line.

• The vehicle speed is too high, above rated tire speed.

• During an extended, high speed, closed throttle coast down--This reduces emissions and increases engine braking.

• During extended deceleration, in order to prevent damage to the catalytic converters

 

Well, I'm taking mine in Monday for other problems and will show the dealer the "loose" ignition as well. I know that it's a good bit easier to turn the key back in my car than my mother-in-law's 08 HHR. I kinda figured as much because the last time my car did stall on me because of the key moving to Acc, she was following us at the same speed over the same bump, and had no problems. Oh, and she has as much or more crap on her keychain than I do. I hope they are willing to replace it like they did for Srogers.

 

Dealer has ordered me a new lock cylinder as well. Hopefully this will solve the problem.

 

wow...so, better to endanger the occupants and other motorists, than to cause any unneccesary emissions, or do damage to an emission control device(catalytic converter)

thanks Chvymgr

amazing, aint it?