Severe overheating and smoke from rear defrost window area. Same issue happened to my vehicle as described in recall number N192265660 with GM. I used remote start to warm up truck and when I went to get in and opened the rear door, smoke bellowed and a bright red glow (flame?) at the rear window was present. Due to the low temperature outside, cold air rushed in and the driver side rear window fractured from thermal shock. Appeared as a short or bad circuit caused the extreme heat in this area.
2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 electrical complaints
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I purchased the silverado 2014 in July 2018 dealer ship in Orangeburge SC. 3 months after driveing the truck i pulled to stop sign when pulled off the stearing wheel went left and my intentions was to go straight my luck was on my side that day. I finally fought the steering back straight and pulled over turned truck off then started back up and no probloms until later on started getting codes on the dash so i took to dealer ship closet one near me , they reboted the ECM and i told the service manger at that time i open the hood and showed him the wire that sometimes i go to start truck all it would do make a cliking noise open hood shake the big cable coming from the battery then truck would start, finaly summer arrives i start useing my air condition it finally went out took back too dealer they say needed new compressor i had warranty at the time replaced compressor after 2 week no A/C back 2nd time a/c issues they put die in compressor no leaks drive another 2 weeks same no a/c tack back to dealer then they tell me my waranty has run out and appears you have condinsor leaking refrigerant they wanted me to pay for i finally agreed to pay half and dealer pay half . Going back to about the second time i took the truck to the dealer when it was under warranty showed service manager cable that would cause truck not start until wiggled the wire. He told me that if that problom would have to change the ECM he said would cost alot of money when come 3rd time they refered to a dealership in Rockinham nc. so they could do a electrical codes diagnostic after my warranty had out when i asked why dont yall have the machine hear after you seen me at dealership 7 times after took truck ROCKINGJAM NC. DEALER checked codes erased few and few weeks later get into crash going arond a suv and cotton picker after starting go around suv turns left i tryed to turn steering wheel back over to my drive lane i had no stearing crashed into suv both total loss.
The contact owns a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. The contact stated while driving 50-65 MPH, the turn signal switch was engaged, and all the dashboard lights turned off temporarily. The contact was able to drive the vehicle. The contact stated while pulling into a parking space, the vehicle inadvertently lost power steering and electrical power. The warning message "Stability Control Activated" was displayed. The vehicle was taken to the independent mechanic. The failure reoccurred while the independent mechanic test drove the vehicle however, the independent mechanic could not duplicate the failure since the OBD reader was not reading any codes. The contact stated that the failure had been reoccurring while driving. The dealer and the manufacturer were not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 88,400.
My truck will start flickering and shuts off jerking the steering wheel out of my hand, then tells me to service stabilitrak. It mostly happens when I am driving (coming to a stop sign/light and/or while turning). Had it taken to two different dealers and they keep telling me it’s a mechanical issue when It seems more electrical.
I was towing my 44 foot trailer and I suddenly got an error that the trailer and the braking system was not connected to the truck. Luckily I was not going fast and was able to still stop but I have been driving the truck also when nothing was attached to my vehicle and I get that same morning trailer brake not attached in an error. I have contacted Chevrolet and they say there is nothing wrong there’s no recall on it but if you get online and all the places were the owners of General Motors trucks you will find numerous complaints about this problem they say they cannot duplicate this at the shops. But it continues to happen they say replace this and it still happens replace that and it still happens there’s a major problem somewhere and I imagine there have been accidents due to this error. I think it needs to be looked at from what I can tell it has not been I also had owned a GMC 20 14. 1/2 ton pick up and it had the same problem and I got the same answers. I reported this problem with my 2014 GMC 3-4 yrs ago
Truck has 98,500 miles on it. Radiator is cracked and leaking, roof leaks when raining, electric power steering randomly jerks the wheel out of your hand and almost causes you to crash.
wiring harness for vehicle is poorly design and is sitting next to hot engine block where the wires are melted and caused a short in the whole entire vehicle, all system is shut down when overheated, this means while traveling at any speed everything goes dead which is considered a highly unsafe situation.
The system that failed is the speedometer display and radio display while driving. This can be dangerous as I do not know the speed I am driving. This can also be dangerous as the display includes the screen for the backup camera that turns off without notice while backing up. The problem has happened many times in my 2015 Chevrolet Silverado. I have a 2017 Chevrolet Silverado for a company vehicle and the issue occurs in it, as well. I notified the GM dealership where both vehicles were purchased and they said the screen could be replaced but would be very expensive. No warning lamps or messages occurred. The screen jumps around a lot and occurs at various times (morning, afternoon, warm or cold weather, etc.).
I estimate this has happened over 10 times. I lose all electrical power to the vehicle and the car shuts off, often this is preceded by loss of power steering and low speed. The last time this happened when pulling out into traffic; the steering kicked back, the truck lost all electrical power, dash went blank, radio dark, including loss of head lights, I will reiterate that this happened while pulling into traffic. This truck cost me over $40k new and I believe Chevy is aware of the problem, then simply don't want to cover the cost of parts and labor to fix. The dealership told me they had no idea what the issue could be, then I found several GM documents online. It appears this is a known issue, and they even list 2015 Silverado on documents. Bulletin No.: 18-NA-161 (The issues in this match exactly what I've experienced) also Reference Number:N172085440 Please help me convince Chevrolet to fix this issue or force them to do a recall.
for months i have been experiencing small issues at first, turn signal quit making noise, and then the radio quit working, this issue would only be corrected by turning off the vehicle, and restarting it, now the problem has gotten worse, tpms lights up on the dashboard the stabillitrack icon appears, and vehicle appears to stall momentarily and the radio goes blank, the most dangerous part is the electric steering wheel locks up, i have read several complaints online about this issue, and find no solution has ever been recorded, so far i have experiment this issue at low speeds and it is a interment problem that randomly happens
The 2015 Chevy Silverado has a very common problem, which I am shocked has not been put under a nation wide recall. A manufacturing issue of placing the negative battery cable in the wrong spot, causes the dash, power steering, stability tracking and air conditioning to shut off completely. When braking, the dash shuts off and the steering wheel locks, which has sent me into oncoming traffic. My brother had the exact same year make and model of truck and had the same exact issue. When his needed to be fixed, he was told the same thing from the dealership. “The negative battery cable should have never been in placed in that position, but relocating it will fix the problem. Only, after replacing the battery it burned out as well. Here is the text I received from the dealership today. “Hey Brian, this is Matt @ Ken Garff Chevrolet, we have tracked the problem down on the truck to the negative battery cable. It has high resistance causing the electrical issues. Estimate for repairs $492 before tax. Reply STOP to OptOut.” It’s a very good thing they diagnosed the issue, since I told them what it was when I walked in their shop. I told them verbatim what they sent back to me. There are literally thousands of complaints online with the same issue. How does a manufacturing fault, that is most definitely a safety issue, become the consumers expense. This problem is much worse, and more dangerous than the recalls that are currently on the vehicle. How many accidents and how much consumer money needs to be spent, before a recall is placed on such a common manufacturing issue. Please let me know what needs to be done to get this taken care of, so more people aren’t in danger, or screwed into paying to fix a blatant error by the manufacturer.
unknown When driving vehicle will randomly and often lose power -- the radio and dash lights go out, the steering wheel locks up -- sometimes the vehicle will have to be restarted
A/C Condenser gave out causing window to fog/ same issue with all GM / TAHOE / SUBURBAN / ESCALADE . Life safety issue visibility compromised I have a 2015 Chevy Silverado with only 30k on it. This should be a mandatory recall.
My truck shakes frequently going down the road at certain speeds. I've had it for around 6 years now and I can't pinpoint exactly when it started. I've had the truck in for maintenance/service at the dealership as well as other auto shops trying to diagnose the problem. I've had new tries, new brakes, countless tire rotations, wheel balancing etc you name it. And the problem persists. Recently after hearing about the "Chevy Shake" I've come to realize that my problems are just like what others have too. Now my powertrain has given out. And my extended warranty has ended. I truly believe that the issues have caused, or are caused by this prevailing issue of a wobbling drive shaft. Every time I have had it in for repairs the issue still persists and I can't always get the time to go back and have it looked at it again. It is a safety issue above all else and I truly believe GM knows about it but does nothing. Even more to the point, I had a "transmission fluid flush" just under a month ago and now all of a sudden my truck doesn't shift like it should. They say it will cost over 5 thousand dollars to get repaired. There is something seriously wrong here. This is an ongoing issue, and again it is difficult to say when it started. But a vehicle going down the highway at speed limit and shaking is a safety concern.
Water filtration from the shark antenna and rear third light, with possible short on a dash board and instrumental panel (already occurred more than once with no light on a instrumental panel and no function of the all gauges including speed gauge) the problem happened especially on rainy days on stationary vehicle and also in a driving conditions bolt city and highway time. The photo showing are only the recent but the problem happened several times before than now. This time was the worst ever
During slower driving and turning wheel, power steering hardens up and motor has shut down while in motion. When trying to turn wheel turning hard into parking or turning sharper turns while driving this occurs! Very concerned for my safety and causing a crash. Busy street driving on highway and also in parking areas this has occurred
Driving at low speed lights flicker lose power steering truck stops running steering locks up
On several occasions the truck will completely shut off while in a turn. All dashboard information shuts down. On several occasions driving about 35-50 MPH going straight and then turning on blinker attempting to make a lane change the truck cuts out and shuts off for a second and turns back on. The headlights flicker and using power windows sometimes causes the truck to shut off for a second and come back on. This happens in park, turning, or driving down the road. I have already had the vehicle in the shop and this is after the software update, and the vacuum pump for the brakes was replaced twice.
Radio and turn signal "clicking" sound will not work sometimes when truck is turned on. If I turn off vehicle and come back 5-10mins most of the time it will start working again. This has been going on for a couple of months and seems to be worst when it's cold outside.
Loss of steering assist. When driving at low speeds and making turns, vehicle has a temporary loss of eps assist followed by a sudden return of eps assist. Dealer states safety recall #18289 has been completed; however, the vehicle continues to exhibit the exact same failure which this recall is supposed to correct.
Has happened multiple times the locks start locking and unlocking rappedley the steering gets hard and the truck dies losing all control of it
I was driving down the highway on a typical winter day in michigan. The rear defroster was on to melt some snow/ice on the rear window. After being quiet/normal, suddenly a loud hissing/sizzling sound was coming from the rear window defroster, lasted less than a minute before I was smelling something burning. The defroster circuit then fried in a large puff of smoke with a substantial "pop" sound. After a brief delay of just a few seconds, the rear window glass exploded/shattered. This is after a known recall was issued by gm for this very issue. I had the issue addressed at my local chevrolet dealership in august. In their service report, it said "inspected rear sliding window terminals and covers for damage. Install revised terminal cover. Also install new design buss bar covers. Ok no heat damage found." again, my problem occurred *after* my local chevrolet dealership allegedly addressed this known problem and already-issued recall. I have no way of knowing whether or not the repairs/inspection they claimed they did actually happened. If they did, clearly they did not remedy this serious problem. I am now trying to get into the dealership for them to replace the rear window. At minimum, they've said it could take two days to get the replacement window.
Activated remote start on vehicle. As I got into vehicle, my passenger noticed a burning smell and then saw thick smoke coming from rear window. I turned off the rear defroster and the smoke started to dissipate. My rear window then shattered. Gm recalled 159,000 vehicles in canada due to what seems like the same issue with rear defrosters. My truck was purchased in the united states.
Tl* the contact owns a 2015 chevrolet silverado 1500. The contact stated that while driving at 40 MPH, a grayish smoke began to enter the vehicle cab from the rear window defroster without warning. The contact immediately shut off the defroster and moments later, the rear passenger window shattered without warning. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and gave the contact a case number. The manufacturer then contacted him about ten days later and informed him that his vehicle was no longer under warranty; therefore they could not offer any assistance with the repair. The vehicle had yet to taken to a dealer or independent mechanic to be repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 63,840.
I have about 85000 miles on my car, I was driving to work and the engine light came up. The code for the engine light came up as p06da which most likely indicates a problem with the engine oil control solenoid (based on most of the videos and reviews on the internet). Unfortunately, gm never made a recall about this!! This problem costs about 3k to fix at the dealer.
Truck seems to lose power when slowing down. Steering wheel locks up. Dash display go dark and comes back. Stability track warning. Airbag warning. Headlights flicker. Ac and fan go out. Happens when making turns at a slow speed. And when hitting the brake at any speed.
Tl* the contact owns a 2015 chevrolet silverado 1500. The contact stated that the vehicle rear window defroster system failed. In addition, the defrost system was emitting smoke. The contact stated when the auto start system automatically started the window defrost system and the contact was concern that there was a voltage noise that emitted under the electronic covers. The contact took the vehicle to axelrod buick gmx (6603 brookpak road parma, ohio 44129) to have a diagnostic performed. However, the dealer advised that the vehicle was not covered under the manufacturer warranty repair and the dealer was unable to diagnose the rear window failure. The manufacturer advised that the vehicle was not included in the customer satisfaction program n192265660. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 62,200.*dt
Tl* the contact owns a 2015 chevrolet silverado. The contact stated that when he started the vehicle the audible indicator lights did not work. This included the indicator sound for when the vehicle was in reverse to warn of any possible collisions. The passenger side indicator sound if the seatbelt and door were ajar did not work as well. The indicator lights for antitheft protection and rollaway prevention also did not work. The dealer hutch chevrolet buick gmc1004 3rd st, paintsville, ky 41240 (606) 297-4066 said to make an appointment and pay a diagnostic fee before the repair fees. The vehicle was not covered by a recall. The manufacturer also said the vehicle was not covered by a recall and transferred the contact back to the dealer. The vehicle was unrepaired parked at the contact's home. The failure mileage was 65,000.
I keep having a problem where I have no sound in my truck at all. No radio or blinker noise. I have tried to take out the fuse and replace it and that doesn't work. If I turn the truck on or open the door I already know if I'm going to have the problem. The open door chime doesn't come on. The next time I open the door it might work. I don't understand where or what the problem is but I know I'm not the only one having this problem.
Touch screen does not respond and handsfree malfunctions. Gps map also does not respond. Radio switches stations on its own and car places phone calls on mute. All of this happens when the vehicle is in motion either in the city or on the highway. It is very distracting and dangerous. I have been working with chevrolet for over a year on this and they don't deem to be able to fix this issue. I have read many forums that show customers with similar computer issues.
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