Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | |||
| 03/15/2010 | 80000 | ||
| 2005 chevy silverado 1500 instrument panel acting up, speedometer in paticular does not work anymore. but seeing tach and oil pressure gage acting up also. i have 134,000 miles on it but the speedometer has been acting up around 80,000 and recently just quit. i have read that gm is willing to fix but has to be under certain requirments. they know they have a problem they should fix all under a recall which i have not seen | |||
| 11/22/2010 | 96000 | ||
| Speedometer not working properly. does not read accurate speed. when needle starts to rise, the motion is not constant. the needle instead ticks up upon acceleration. | |||
| 08/11/2010 | 47600 | ||
| After stopping to pay a toll , while accelerating back up to highway speed, the vehicle suddenly and unexpectedly began to increase speed.even while foot was off gas pedal. | |||
| 03/19/2010 | 93400 | ||
| My vehicle is 2005 chevy silverado 1500 purchased in 2007 with mileage of approximately 47000 miles at the time of purchase. upon driving thevehicle for three months, my speedometer startd sticking intermitantly, but would reset. since, my speedometer sticks on a daily basis, sometimes all day. the only remedy has been to turn my vehicle off and back on, where as my speedometer goes down at five mile per hour incriments until back at zero. in the last three weeks, my tachometer has also malfunctioned and does not read at times, therefore making it impossible to know how fast i am going nor how high my engine is idling or increasing/decreasing in speed. there is no apparent event leading up to the failure and my conclusion is that the instrument cluster is defective in its entirety. in march of this year i was traveling in oklahoma during a sudden snow storm in which traffic was traveling at an estimated 20-30 miles per hour. i accelerated to an unknown speed, however not excessively. i lost control and my vehicle slide accross two lanes of traffic opposite the lane i was in and i slide into a ditch in which my bottom air dam was torn off. i was able to repair the damage however i only accelerated because i thought i was traveling at ten miles per hour. when my vehicle came to a rest in the ditch, my speedometer was still at ten miles per hour. a state trooper did assist me by getting a tow truck, however no report was filed by me. i believe that if i had know how fast i was going, this may not have happened. it is inconclusive, however i do believe the malfunction is a safety concern. i have priced the replacement, which is the only remedy, at or about $450-700 and this is not an isolated malfunction. i have researched and found that there are many, many cases of this very defect in the same modlel truck from the same manufacturer and believe that it should be a recall, not a special provision du to the manufacturere knowing since 2003 about this particular defect | |||
| 02/15/2010 | 170000 | 1 | |
| Speedometer on my 2005 chevy silverado is suddenly not registering correctly. can register as much as 20 mph to fast or too slow. does not always occur. first discovered when i was stopped by police going 95 mph, when i thought the vehicle cruise was set at 75 mph (legal speed). i immediately bought a gps and since have noticed the changes are gradual and can easily go unnoticed. *tr | |||
| 08/14/2009 | 50000 | 1 | |
| 2005 chevy silverado 1500 4wd. when coming to a stop, abs engages every time. this causes the vehicle to stop erratically and sometimes increases the stopping distance. abs system only engages when almost to a stop, less then 5 mph. i will be replacing both wheel hubs/abs sensors to try to fix the problem. found this article on canadian models: http://www.ebearing.com/news2005/053101.htm. *tr | |||
| 07/16/2008 | 65000 | 1 | |
| I was on my way to work and i stopped at a stop sign and happened to look down at my speedometer and it was showing that i was going 10mph while i was sitting still. then while i was driving the speedometer jumped to 85mph. this was the first time i have noticed this problem. *tr | |||
| 06/15/2007 | 1000 | 12 | 06/22/2005 |
| I bought the 2005 chevrolet silverado in june 2005 brand new. within two months of having the truck i noticed that it would not shift properly through the gears, when it would, it lurched. it happened twice in one day. this happened more and more frequently and still does it, however, the dealership that i bought the vehicle from could not find anything wrong. also, i had other people drive the truck, and they have had the same problem. the truck has been to the dealership 12 or 13 times, but they never could find the problem. i also had an incident where vehicle revved into park and it stayed at a high idle for several second before finally returning to a normal idle like the tharotle stuck. in addition to the problems with the transmission, i have had power lock problems. i can stand next to the truck and the locks will not unlock. all of my coworkers could unlock their vehicles froma distance but mine will not. i had to walk around the truck several times and continually press the unlock button before the locks would unlock. i have also had problems with the power locks unlocking from inside the truck with the unlock button on the passenger side door. this has happened a few times now. the dealership also cannot find anything wrong with the lock or the key fobs. my cd played at a brand new cd, at times the cd's will not come out or go in, and the radio stations will appear on the display wrong. in addition to all of that, last summer i was driving down the highway and i had smoke start pouring out of my vents. i thought the truck was over heating at first. when i took it to the dealership, they said that it was just condinsation. i had the truck the summer before and never had a problem like it. i also took my truck in this year for new tires, mind you i had less than 20,000 miles on the truck. the place where i got the truck was amazed that i needed new tires since i had so few miles on the truck. *ak | |||
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL - CABLES | |||
| 01/01/2008 | 51000 | 40 | 08/17/2006 |
| Dri-ving vehicle (2005 silverado) and noticed the speedometer rereading approx 120. now speedometer will start anywhere on the dial and will read a variation of speeds. sitting at a stop light it may read 120 mph. *tr | |||