2019 Chevrolet Traverse · symptom sheet
Engine stalls or loses power while driving
- 47owner reports
- 42,000median miles
- $360median quote
- 0involved a crash
Newest report Jul 9, 2026 · checked Oct 2, 2026
288 of the 406 complaints on this car are about the transmission and drivetrain. 47 of those describe stalling. Only shift to park warning is reported more often on this car.
Tick what matches of 47 reports
Stalling on other Traverse years
Report counts are for each model year on its own, so a newer car has had less time to collect them. Model years with too few reports of it for a sheet: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2024, 2025, 2026.
What this problem usually is
Stalling reports are some of the most alarming on the site. The engine quits while the car is moving, sometimes on a highway and sometimes at a stop. Many owners say it restarted right away and the dealer found no stored code, which is part of why these complaints pile up before anything gets fixed.
What got replaced
Owners who name the part that was replaced mention the battery (7 reports) and the alternator (3 reports).
Recalls and investigations
One recall on the transmission and drivetrain covers the 2019 model year. A recall on the same system isn't always the same failure, so read the defect text.
The start/stop accumulator endcap may have missing bolts.
All 3 recalls on the 2019 Chevrolet Traverse, with the owner complaints on each recalled system
What owners paid
5 of the 47 reports quote a price. Each dot is one quote. The middle half runs $200 to $816.
When it happens
The middle half of failures fell between 30,000 and 64,000 miles, from the 18 reports that gave a mileage.
Is this a known problem?
The manufacturer has sent NHTSA 5 service bulletins or notices for the 2019 Chevrolet Traverse that deal with this problem. Newest first.
Federal rules make a manufacturer send NHTSA a copy of any notice about a defect that goes to more than one dealer or owner. Most of these are service bulletins, the repair instructions manufacturers send to dealers. NHTSA generally leaves safety recall bulletins out of this file, and recalls are listed separately.
This service bulletin provides repair information to correct a customer concern of No Crank, No Start, Quick Start/Stall, No FOB Detected, Key FOBs Inoperative, B3924 00, B3925 00, B3926 00, B3927 00, B3928 00 Set.
This service bulletin advises the tech that the rotational Clicking Noise Heard After Engine Shut Down may be normal characteristics of the vehicle.
This Preliminary Information communication provides information to the technician about vehicles that have an intermittent no crank, no start, or start stall concern with the security light coming on.
This Preliminary information communicates that a rotational clicking noise heard after engine shut down is a design characteristic and no repairs should be attempted.
1 more on the 2019 Chevrolet Traverse page.
What owners wrote
“Once shifting the car in park the car wonât shut off. It keeps stating âShift to Parkâ the car has already been shifted to park. I have to shift my car over and over again to get it to cut off. Also when driving it keeps stating something about the track system.”
Filed Dec 14, 2024
“After putting it in park, turn off car and it stated itâs not in park! Sometime I can get it to shut off by messing with shifter. Sometimes just let it run until it shuts off!”
Filed Sep 12, 2023
“Error message pops up saying shift to park. With this message on, the car will not shut off.”
Filed Jul 28, 2023
“Shift indicator message comes on dash after engine shut off. When the warning lamp would trigger the switch with the shifter handle assembly would not message the body module of the action. A technical service bulletin recommended the shifter & electrical harness be replaced.”
Filed Mar 25, 2023
Should you keep driving it?
This page can't tell you that. 0 of 47 reports involved a crash. Owners who file are the ones who had a bad experience, and nobody checks their reports. If the problem affects steering, braking, power or a fire risk, treat it as a safety fault and have it inspected before a long or high-speed drive.
File your own report with NHTSA. Complaint counts are how a problem gets an investigation. How reports land on this sheet.
Guide Paid for this repair before a recall covered it? How recall reimbursement works