2007 Chevrolet Silverado 1500: doors won't lock, open or latch

Filed Dec 20, 2021 · Electrical · VA

2007 Silverado 1500. Has had a situation where truck acts a dead battery or no battery in the truck. Conditions are no start, key fob will remote start truck then truck dies all electrical in truck works. Have dad CD player shoveling cds when no key in truck. Air and heat switch’s back and forth. Door locks cycle up and down. Have to reset radio and clock after the power failed. This is not from a dead battery. All I do to reset it all is to put a battery booster to battery terminals and switch booster on and off. Truck is back to normal. Most recent advent was all this at 1 time. Door locks cycle, radio turns on and off, ac changes to heat, low fuel and seat belt alarms start sounding, instrument cluster act irrationally, speed odometer goes from 20 to60 back and forth with truck cutting off at 20 and powering to 60. After several miles of driving everything is back to normal and I drive straight to my mechanic. Cut the truck off and Bingo, acts like there is not a battery in the truck. Nothing at all electrical. Total silence. I have had minor electrical since truck was almost new. I always carry a booster pack and it worked to start truck and get me home. Now for what my mechanic found after my last disaster. There is a high amperage fuse block located under your fuse box in the engine bay. There is 2 threaded studs for wires that feed your trucks electrical. Studs had never had ant nuts on them to hold the wires secure and after 14 years of total aggravation and fear of an accident or fire. I hope truck is fixed for good. GM dealers would blow me off with any excuse why they couldn’t find a problem. They wanted to sell batteries , Pcms and ecms. The reason this becomes a safety problem is a chance of total power failing while in traffic being rear ended or worse. There really should be a recall for these trucks and checked. I’ve read hundreds of remarks from people with these same issues. I hope this helps. I am thankful to have a mechanic who will research.

Filed Jan 31, 2021 · 126,000 miles · PA

Key fob not working. Passenger door controls not working. Window for passenger door not working from driveside control either but can use driveside window. Door lock not working on passenger side. Passenger side mirrow turn signal also not working. All this happen after replacing door speaker

Filed Sep 8, 2020 · Airbags · IL

1) still no solution for my takata air bag recall after 4 years. 2) I also have a major issue with the interior door handles. The metal cover as delaminated and sliced my hand. This is on both driver and passenger side.

Filed Jun 1, 2020 · Electrical · 27,923 miles · MO

Driver side door locks and cant get it open . Have to enter by going thru the other side. Then some times going down the road it will unlock and decide to open.some times if I am driving it and were I am going get there I cant get out. Then I have to exit thru the other door. I have tried everything .

Filed Oct 24, 2019 · Electrical · 41,000 miles · ID

Tl* the contact owns a 2007 chevrolet silverado 1500. The contact stated that the vehicle's onstar stopped working and the door locks malfunctioned. The contact stated that the doors could not lock without the key. In addition, the windows were unable to roll down. The contact stated that the vehicle began to have multiple electrical malfunctions and several instrument panel indicators illuminated. The contact took the vehicle to a certified mechanic who diagnosed that the body module needed to be replaced. The vehicle had not been repaired. The manufacturer and dealer were not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 41,000.

Filed Feb 28, 2018 · 63,000 miles · CA

Interior driver door handle cable broke. The window must be rolled down and exterior handle is used to open the door. The car has 63000 miles.

Filed Feb 3, 2016 · Electrical · 79,544 miles · WA

Vehicle, which I had just bought used from a dealership, died while in motion repeatedly on both a highway and on a street after being driven for a period of time. Did not occur during test drives or during inspection. Instrument panel lights, gauges and door locks operated erratically before vehicle suddenly stopped. Would not promptly restart. Took several attempts before it started. Chevrolet dealership had vehicle for over a day and could not duplicate the electrical problem. My search on google and youtube indicates that there is a common problem with corrosion of the battery cables, - just "google" 2007 silverado electrical problems and you will see what I mean. Why the chevy dealership could not or would not diagnose this I don't know. I replaced all the necessary battery cables and the problem has not reoccurred. In my opinion, this is a known and common fault that chevy should be well aware of and the fix readily available.

Filed Apr 22, 2015 · Driver assistance, Electrical · 114,888 miles · PA

Was driving my 2007 chevy silverado 1500 about 40 MPH when the door locks started locking and unlocking, all warning lights were flashing, speedometer would read then drop out the read again. Engine temporarily was shutting off then coming back on. Tried to accelerate to get it off the road and felt like transmission was affected but may have been because the was the engine was shutting off and on. Got home shut key off and lost all electrical power and could not restart. I was a gm tech so went into garage for a battery tester hooked it up and battery load tested good shut hood went to go back inside truck and power came back on and started right up. Has happened twice since then. Asked other gm techs still working at dealers and said they've never heard of problems like this happening.

Filed May 15, 2014 · Electrical, Lights · 70,000 miles · CA

While driving at different speeds door locks will cycle on and off, exterior lights and dash display will go off, wipers will freeze, all gauges will go zero and two or three warning lights will come on such as stabilitrak, ABS brakes or service air bags. Lights etc will go off for 5 seconds which is dangerous. I took it to stewart chevrolet in colma on 2/3/14, they were able to duplicate problem on road tests but were unable to guarantee a fix if they replaced the body control module or applied tsb 08-07-30-0216 doc id# 2776388. How do I get this safety issue addressed?

Filed Sep 9, 2013 · Electrical, Engine · 70,000 miles · IA

Week prior to incident these truck symptoms occurred simultaneously while driving in hot weather highway speed smooth dry surface highway. Abs light on service 4 wd on left speedometer and tachometer flicking off and on door locks flipping off and on shifting hard jerking rear end clunking odometer window going blank on 9/2/13 while driving hot weather at 25-30 MPH on dry gravel left rear wheel locked up without warning possibly due to down shift. Clunk in rear end service 4wd indicator light came on then went off. Service engine light came on immediately following left rear wheel lockup with the following codes. Code p0121 throttle position sensor p0171 lean air fuel ratio bank1 p0174 lean air fuel ratio bank 2 p0121 p0171 p0174.

Filed Feb 14, 2013 · Electrical, Engine · 65,308 miles · VA

This is a recurring problem- my vehicle (purchased brand new by me) while cruising on the highway will start to try and cut off while driving. The door locks will pop up and down, the dash gauges power on and off, the headlamps flash on and off, etc... Last week the vehicle completely shut down while doing this and I had to coast to the side of the road. This happened three times in 48 hours.

Filed Apr 27, 2011 · Body, Locks · 37,000 miles · CA · 1 injury

The chrome plating on the interior door handles is cracking and peeling off. This has caused sharp edges which have LED to many sliced fingers.