Chevrolet Silverado Complaints (1997)

955 consumer complaints on file.

#880663February 15, 2001
FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP
VEHCILE KEPT STALLING ON HIGHWAY. ELECTRICAL WIRING IN FUEL PUMP CAUSED PUMP TO GO BAD. IF IGNITED, IT COULD HAVE CAUSED A FIRE. FUEL PUMP WAS REPLACED. *AK
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#880276February 9, 2001
FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY
AT 40,000 MILES FUEL GAUGE STOPPED OPERATING, UNABLE TO DETERMINE AMOUNT OF FUEL IN TANK; DEALER NOTIFIED, AND INFORMED CONSUMER THAT THE PART WAS OUT OF ITS WARRANTY, AND NOT COVERED UNDER A RECALL. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PROVIDE ANY FURTHER DETAILS ON THIS MATTER. *AK
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#785258February 7, 2001
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM:EMISSION CONTROL:GAS RECIRCULATION VALVE (EGR VALVE), STEERING
EGR VALVE WAS REPLACED. *SLC
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#879926February 6, 2001
VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR
WINDSHIELD WIPERS WILL RUN SOMETIMES/GO SLOW/RUN FAST, AND THEY ALWAYS RUN ON HIGH. CONSUMER STATES IT'S HARD TO SEE, AND MAY BE DANGEROUS. *AK
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#559428February 5, 2001
STEERING:GEAR BOX (OTHER THAN RACK AND PINION)
STEERING BOX GEAR STRIPPED OUT. NLM
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#879854February 5, 2001
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
CONSUMER WAS TRAVELING ON HIGHWAY AND TRANSMISSION WENT OUT WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE, AND THE VEHICLE HAD TO BE TOWED TO THE DEALERSHIP. TRANSMISIION BLEW. *AK
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#879571February 1, 2001
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP
EVERYTIME BRAKES ARE APPLIED VEHICLE PULLS TO THE RIGHT. WHEN TRYING TO MAKE A SUDDEN STOP VEHICLE'S PULL TO RIGHT IS EVEN WORSE . CONTACTED DEALER, AND DEALER COULD NEVER FIND CAUSE. *AK
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#740189January 30, 2001
FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP, ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM:HOSES/LINES/PIPING/FITTINGS, ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:ALTERNATOR/GENERATOR/REGULATOR, FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:CARBURETOR SYSTEM, ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM:EMISSION CONTROL
FUEL PUMP FAILED REPLACED AT MY COST BY DEALER.COOLANT HOSE FROM INTAKE TO HEATER FAILED COMMON PROBLEM ALTERNATOR REPLACED AT MY COSTED AT MY COST,COMMON PROBLEM. INTATE LEAK(COOLANT) NOT YET REPAIRED. MASS AIR FLOW SENSOR REPLACED AT MY COST,PART ONLY AVAILABLE FROM GM.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#739881January 24, 2001
STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM
INTERMITTENT STEERING PROBLEMS VEHICLE SUDDENLY OVERSTEERS WHILE TURNING AT ROAD SPEEDS
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#559079January 22, 2001
STRUCTURE:FRAME AND MEMBERS
THE TWO CENTER CROSS MEMBERS WHICH HOLD THE FUEL TANK HAD CRACKS, ONE CRACKED COMPLETELY THROUGH AND THE SECOND WAS CRACKED 3/4'S THROUGH THE METAL, THE FUEL TANK ALMOST TOUCHED THE GROUND, THE CROSS MEMBERS WERE REPLACED. *CJ
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#878659January 22, 2001
STEERING
VEHICLE PULLS TO THE LEFT WHILE IN OR WHILE ENTERING A CURVE, CONSUMER STATES IT FEELS AS IF SOMEONE IS GRABBING STEERING WHEEL, DEALER SUGGESTED THE PROBLEM WAS THE EVO SENSOR, HOWEVER AT THE TIME THEY COULD NOT GET VEHICLE TO DUPLICATE PROBLEM, THEREFORE NOT BEING ABLE TO FIND THE PROBLEM. *SLC
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#878585January 19, 2001
STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM
VARIABLERATION POWER STEERING IS GIVING CONSUMER SOME PROBLEMS, AND HE ALMOST HAD AN ACCIDENT. CONSUMER WAS TRAVLING AT 40-50 MPH AND WHEN CHANGING LANES STEERING WENT OUT. PROBLEM WITH THE STEERING IS THAT WHEEL GETS TOO LOOSE WHEN SLOWING DOWN, AND WHEEL TURNS MORE THE IT SHOULD.*AK
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#739518January 17, 2001
TIRES
TIRE BLEW OUT AT NORMAL OPERATING SPEED WITH NO LOAD IN VEHICLE. TIRE FAILURE INVOLVED COMPLETE SEPARATION OF TREAD AND SIDEWALL. VEHICLE HAS BEEN USED AS A PASSENGER VEHICLE AND NEVER HAS BEEN LOADED AS A WORK TRUCK. IN VIEW OF RECENT FIRESTONE PROBLEMS, I THOUGHT THIS INFO MIGHT BE USEFUL. *AK (DOT NUMBER: NA TIRESIZE: LT24575R16)
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#739068January 9, 2001
POWER TRAIN:CLUTCH ASSEMBLY:PEDAL/HAND LEVER(MOTORCYCLE), POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION, SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC, POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY:AXLE SHAFT:SEAL
AT 62,000 MILES FAN CLUTCH BROKE AND NOW TRANSMISSION NEEDS TO BE REPLACED, 2ND GEAR IS GONE. THE REAR SEAL IS LEAKING AND WAS REPLACED ALREADY AT 18,600 THE FRONT BRAKES WERE REPAIRED AT 25,600 THEN AT 35,300 THE ENTIRE FRONT BRAKES COMPLETELY REPLACED ROTORS AND ALL(PROBLEMS WITH CALIPERS) THE REPAIRING DEALER CLAIMED IT WSN'T COVERED UNDER WARRANTY EVEN THOUGH ALL REPAIRS WE DONE BY CHEVROLET DEALERS. NOW I AM FACING APPROXIMATELY $2,000. IN REPAIRS TO THE TRANSMISSION.......CHEVROLET GIVE ME A BRAKE. E.*AK
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#785236January 8, 2001
STEERING
STEERING LOCKS WHILE MAKING A TURN AND WHILE BRAKING. NLM
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#739004January 8, 2001
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION, POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DIFFERENTIAL UNIT
AFTER COMING TO A STOP AFTER DRIVING ON FREEWAY WITH TRANSMISSION HOT VEHICLE WILL SLAM HARD INTO 2ND GEAR UPON ACCELERATION FROM INITIAL STOP. DEALERS ARE RECOMMENDING TRANSMISSION REPLACEMENTS AND OR EXPENSIVE REPAIRS. NUMEROUS WEB SITES SHOW OWNERS COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS AS EARLY AS 40K MILES. I HAVE CONTACTED GM BUT FAIL TO ACKNOWLEDGE ANY PROBLEM EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE A SERVICE BULLETIN OUT THAT STATES QUOTE: "THE CONDITION MAY BE CAUSED BY A SLIP-STICK CONDITION BETWEEN THE PROPELLER SHAFT SLIP YOKE AND TRANSFER CASE OUTPUT SHAFT" CORPORATE BULLETIN # 99-04-21-001 AND I BELIEVE THIS TO BE THE CASE WITH MY AND MANY OTHERS VEHICLES.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#739018January 8, 2001
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
DEALERSHIP VERY HELPFUL WITH THIS AND SEVERAL OTHER PROBLEMS. SEEMS TO BE A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH THIS TRANSMISSION. LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING WEB SITE HTTP://WWW.THECOMPLAINTSTATION.COM/G/GM_TOC.HTM. *AK
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#877487January 5, 2001
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING
WIRES INSIDE FUEL TANK OVERHEATED AND MELTED, INCLUDING SOME OF PLASTIC PARTS. 0DI 717119, EXPLAINED EXACT PROBLEM. *AK
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#738848January 5, 2001
FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM:INJECTORS
THIS FUEL INJECTOR PUMP WAS REPLACED 5 MONTHS AFTER THE PURCHASE OF THIS TRUCK IN JULY 1997 AT 11,232 MILES ON THE ODOMETER. IN SEPT OF 2000 THE SAME PROBLEMS STARTED AGAIN AND WAS TAKEN TO DEALERSHIP. THEY SAID THEY COULD DIAGNOSE IT UNLESS IT WAS DOING THE STALLING OUT, SO WE PROCEEDED TO DRIVE THE VEHICLE AS IT WAS OUR ONLY MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION. ON DEC. 26 WE HAD TRUCK TOWED TO DEALERSHIP TO HAVE THE SAME PART REPLACED AS WAS DONE IN 1997 ONLY 5 MONTHS AFTER WE PURCHASED THIS NEW TRUCK. THIS PART AS TOLD TO US BY CHEVROLET AND THE DEALERSHIP THEY HAD A SPECIAL POLICY # 00064 - OUR REF # C02653123 THRU CHEVR. WAS TOLD THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO PROBLEM IN REPLACING THE PART AGAIN. NOW THEY ARE RENIGIN ON IT. SAID WE WERE OVER OUR MILES - 120,000 OR 11 YRS. THE PART WAS GOING BAD AT 118,187 IN SEPT., BUT WE KEPT BEING TOLD BY THE DEALERSHIP THAT IT WAS NOT SHOWING UP AND WAS PROBABLY BAD GAS. WE TOOK IT 3 TIMES AND THEY NEVER DOCUMENTED IT ONLY FIXED OTHER PROBLEMS. NOW THAT THE WARRANTY IS OUT, THE TRUCK HAS COMPLETELY STOPPED RUNNING AND THEY REFUSE TO HONOR REPLACING THE PART THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE IN SEPT. SO HERE WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE BECAUSE OF THE DEALERSHIP MECHANICS REFUSING TO BELIEVE IT WAS THAT UNTIL THEY REPLACED A WATER SENSOR TO BE ABLE TO PUT THE COMPUTER ON IT TO VERIFY IT AND WE HAD ALREADY TAKEN IT TO 2 OTHER MECHANICS THAT TOLD US THAT WAS THE PROBLEM AND TO TAKE IT TO THE DEALERSHIP SINCE IT WAS A BAD PART THAT THEY WERE HAVING TROUBLE WITH SINCE 1994. NO ONE IMFORMED US OF THIS... NOW WE ARE FACED WITH A BILL OF OVER $1700.00 TO REPLACE THIS SAME PART THAT WE KNEW WAS BAD AND WE WERE UNDER THE MILES OF OUR WARRANTY FOR THIS, BUT SINCE THE DEALERSHIP MECHANICS SAID THAT WAS NOT THE PROBLEM, WE KEPT DRIVING IT SINCE IT WAS OUR ONLY MEANS OF GETTING TO WORK. WE NEED HELP... THANK YOU FOR ANYTHING YOU CAN DO FOR US. *AK
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#738699January 3, 2001
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP
NO SUMMARY LISTED FOR ABOVE VEHICLE. *AK
Crash:
Yes
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0

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