Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | |||
| 01/03/2011 | 120000 | ||
| Tl-the contact owns a 2004 chevrolet silverado 2500. the speedometer gauge has fail. when driving about 60 mph the gauge would be reading up to 90 or 100 mph. the dealer was contacted who informed him the vehicle was out of warranty and he would have to pay for the repairs. the manufacturer was contacted and informed him his vehicle was out of warranty and offered no other assistance. the failure mileage were 120,000...mw | |||
| 04/05/2007 | |||
| Tl* the contact owns a 2004 chevrolet silverado 2500. while driving 65 mph he placed the cigarette lighter in the ash-tray. next, smoke was expelled from the cigarette lighter housing. he pulled over to the side of the road to inspect the vehicle. upon inspection, he saw flames underneath of the hood near the fuse box. the fire department extinguished the flames. a police report was filed. the vehicle was towed to a collision center. the cause of failure has not been determined. the failure and current mileages were unknown. the vin was unavailable. | |||
| 06/01/2007 | 85000 | 1 | |
| I have a 2004 chevrolet 2500 crewcab pickup. some where between 80,000 and 90,000 the speedometer began giving false readings. sometimes it appears to work correctly, sometimes not at all and yet other times it is clearly giving an incorrect reading. *tr | |||
| 09/12/2008 | 103000 | 1 | |
| 2004 chevy silverado instrument cluster sticks and reads a constant 120+ mph. started to stick at around 75 mph for a month. now is stuck on 120+ mph and will not move even when truck is restarted or flashing computer. *tr | |||
| 08/02/2008 | 41820 | 1 | |
| The speedometer in my 2004 chevrolet silverado 2500 has begun intermittently showing speeds that vary widely and do not indicate actual road speed. the speedometer fails to return to zero at rest and has shown speeds more than 40 mph in excess of estimated actual speed. this seems to be a common complaint, although i have not yet contacted a dealer or gm. i believe there are two components to this problem: 1) i cannot rely on the speedometer reading; 2) this could affect the miles shown on the odometer or at least cast doubt on their veracity. the truck presently has just under 42,00 miles on it and has been relatively free of major defects other than recall items. *tr | |||
| ELECTRICAL SYSTEM - ALTERNATOR/GENERATOR/REGULATOR | |||
| 04/26/2010 | 1 | ||
| 2004 chevrolet silverado 2500. consumer states problems with replacement alternator *tgw the vehicle caught on fire which may have been due to a manufacturing defect with a replacement alternator that was recalled. *jb | |||