We had a Traverse as well and it worked great for us until it didn't. My husband got a job in Atlanta which was a 100 mile commute one way and it went down fast. We kept it another year and let our son drive it. We could tell something was wrong with it but we didn't want to put the money into it. We offered it to our niece for what we owed 2000....my sister came and scooped it up. I begged her not to buy it but she insisted. I had a premonition that she would die in it. She did. She crashed it into a tree. It burned. it gives me nightmares thinking about it. Let that thing go.