Dash cracked at corner of passenger airbag noticed around 55,000 miles. Engine consuming oil, noticed around 40,000 miles. Front breaks vibrating, noticed around 18,000 miles. Dealer and gm has refused to fix.
2009 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 brakes complaints
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I have had this problem occasionally since I bought the truck new, but recently it started to do the same thing on a regular basis. Start the truck and it's fine, but go to shift into gear and the service engine, service traction control, and service ABS lights and messages come on the dash. Today, I pressed the brakes while driving it and heard a click when I did so, so I pulled over and checked and found that if I push my brake pedal very far, my brake lights went out. I just had my vehicle serviced and inspected at the gm dealership about 9 months/5,000 miles ago. Hopefully this truck doesn't get me or my wife into a fatal accident...
Warped front rotors both wheels. While driving going down a hill, the steering wheel would start shaking. I am a retired master mechanic with over 30 years experience specializing in brakes. I took my vehicle to the dealer 4 times with this complaint. The dealer could not duplicate the complaint because of not test driving down a hill. Test drive was on a flat surface. Problem only occurs while driving down a hill. I was worried about safety after so many service visits, I finally called general motors in detroit to file a complaint. General motors replaced the rotors as a goodwill gesture. The problem has not re-occurred after rotor replacement.
Tl* the contact owns a 2009 chevrolet silverado 1500. The contact stated that whenever the brakes were depressed, the headlights would intermittently flash on and off. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer approximately twenty times but the dealer was unsure as to how to repair the problem and advised the failure was normal because of a new charging system. The contact called the manufacturer who offered no assistance. The VIN was not available. The failure mileage was approximately 19,000 and the current mileage was approximately 38,000.
Warped front rotors both wheels.
The brake pedal back pressure is weak, spongy or soft when applied. The brake pedal goes to floor board further than normal/ traditional of all manufacturer vehicle models through out past decades of production. Have to pump this vehicles brake pedal more than twice in order to obtain sufficient brake pedal pressure necessary to achieve control of vehicle's brakes. For unexpected braking, the current braking system on 1500 silverado chevrolets is inadequate for the average driver which possibly will result with harm to others and vehicle.
Not much for brakes on the initial push of the pedal but if you pump them up they are good. Really bad in a emergency stop or when you have a light trailer on that doesn't require separate brakes on trailer. I had it both on 1500 4x4 08gmc and on the same 09 chevy I have now.
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