Problem with chevrolet silverado parking brakes. They fail constently...its a safety hazard when pulling a boat or parking on a hill, especially with a manual transmission. It is usually 200-300 dollars to repair. I had my truck roll back while trying to load a boat. I feel this is a problem that chevrolet will not own up too. Luckliy no one was injured. I have looked online at several message boards and it seems to be a widespread problem. Thanks daniel.
2000 Chevrolet Silverado transmission complaints
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Driveshaft broke in half completely. Dealer notified.
The vehicle automatically shifted into 4-wheel drive. Ph
While driving the vehicle at normal speeds the rear drive train broke (rear axle).
The drive train shudders excessively when switched into auto four wheel drive. I noticed this prior to the end of the warranty period but just forgot about taking it in for warranty service as I just stopped using the auto four wheel feature. It started at or about 30,000 miles, the truck has 66,000 now and I am sure the dealer won't listen to me, just my wallet. I'll put this to the test next week on my vacation.
Pinion shaft broke and locked differential while driving the vehicle down the road. I have read of other instances with this same vehicle, year, make and model. I think this is soemthing that should be investigated on other vehicles.
The transmission hesitates excessively while driving. Dealer advised consumer that a technical service bulletin was issued by the manufacturer regarding the issue, but the manufacturer states the condition is normal. Consumer is very concerned about the safety hazard of the transmission hesitating while in traffic. Ts
Front wheels will not pull in 4wd caused by premature wear and slipping of clutch discs in front transfer case. Wearing on the clutch discs even continues while in 2wd. Soulution is an expensive overhaul of the front transfer case.
Tranamission failed.
When accelerating from a stop, vehicle will shift into neutral instead of proper gear.
Consumer states that foot hangs under a piece of molding that holds foot onto accelerater that makes it impossible to release freely. The only way to remove foot from accelerater is to press down accelerater more or move foot slightly to the left and pick up foot. Consumer feels this is dangerous because when you need to stop theres no time to move foot over and lift. Please provide any further information.
While traveling 70 MPH and without any indication, the transmission disengaged and lost all power. Consumer pulled vehicle over. Vehicle was towed to dealership. *ak consumer states; repaired three times, and breaks down each time.
The shift lever slipped out of gear several times while the consumer was traveling and the engine was revving. The dealer replaced a worn out bearing and seal but the consumer is still concerned. *yh
On three (3) separate occasions over the past two years accelerator pedal has become very difficult to depress, enough so, that I became apprehensive to accelerate in a parking situation, so that I would let the vehicle pick up speed on its own until I was out in an open area. The dealer has "cleaned " the throttle body assembly on each occurrence. After the last service he charged $65.00 for this service. Upon checking your website I see that this is not an isolated situation. I feel that the manufacturer should be made aware of this potentialy dangerous problem, and that a "fix" should made available at no charge to correct this problem. In regard to the second problem, I was very surprised, and disappointed when $1500 in repairs was necessary to repair the ring and pinion assembly in the rear end. The servicing dealer in all of these incidents was not the dealer that I bought the vehicle from, but it was tom gibbs chevrolet,bunnell, fl . (386) 437-3314.
Owner took truck to have suspension lifted. In doing so, mechanic placed faulty rear shock mounts on truck, which broke while driving. After repairs were done on shocks,driveline started vibrating. Mechanic did a partial repair of driveline, not resolving failure completely. Please describe details.
1st PCM broke at 19735 miles in wytheville virgina was able to limp to dealer they replaced the PCM and cam sensor. 2nd time at douglas ga. They replaced the PCM and crankshaft sensor .I pull a 5th wheel and the 2 nd time I had just put in to a camp site and was going to town when it quit in the camp road doing about 20 I had to call for a tow to chevrolet dealer . Note both dealers were excellent . I was lucky I did not have the camper on. Is this a proublem with this truck?
When accelerating from a stop vehicle just stopped moving in drive, the engine was still running but the consumer had no control of the accelerator pedal nor did any indicator lights illuminated on the dashboard, a 4 speed automatic and only 2nd and 3rd gear would operate, vehicle finally coasted to a stop and the consumer managed to play around with gears well enough to get the vehicle home. Problem was due to gears split which grinded all the teeth. Chevrolet was contacted. *ak
Accelerator pedal sticks at first start, consumer has to press down hard to get it to unstick, then vehicle will surge forward. Dealer replaced the throttle body. *ak consumer adds had to replaced u-joints that were making a squeaking noise.
I have had problems with this vehicle since I bought it. My brakes habitually fail if I hit a bump while braking, and I have been told by both the dealer and the manufacturer that my brakes are operating within the normal specs for this vehicle and the driving conditions in my area. They do nothing to fix the problem. I use my personal vehicle to respond to fires and medical emergencies, and am concerned that I will have an accident en route to help someone. Also, my automatic transmission occasionally goes into neutral while stopped in traffic, or will not engage upon putting it in 'drive', but the dealership is unable to duplicte the problem, so they say they can't fix it. My fuel pump has failed and been replaced more than once. My windshield wipers repeatedly fail on the passenger side.
Transmission had a vent tube on it that should not be there, this was causing vehicle to spin out of control.
There is a wire harness showing from under steering wheel til that has a short circuit and occasionally sparks. Also, this has caused problems with reading fuel indicator/ odometer/ gear indicator/ air conditioner and heater.
Engine check light went on day after purchase. Saturday. Returned to dealer on monday for checkup. Dealer said they couldn't reproduce the problem. Check engine light went on 08/10/2000. Returned to dealer. This time they checked the national computer and found that the knock sensors were overtorqued at the factory and replaced them. Why didn't they check the national computer when they had the truck the first time? Started truck up in am 11/13-/2000 oil light came on. Checked oil, was full. Started truck up again, thought maybe guage was incorrect. Still no oil pressure. They towed truck in and replaced oil pump. The mileage was only 4513. I wanted engine replace, but they said there was no damage . Gas pedal sticking at 23550 miles. Returned truck to dealer. They installed new throttle body.also oil filler tube was not installed correctly. Oil was leaking from tube. They fixed this also.at 26581 miles engine started to have valve noise on cold startup. Returned to dealer. They said nothing was wrong. On 12/05/2001 returned truck due to tapping noise. This time they said it was due to castrol oil filter. They changed oil and put on pf59 filter. Thought problem was fixed. Engine still has lift noise on cold startup. Also complained of transmission double shifting. Dealer can't find anything wrong. This truck has been in the shop so many times they should extend the warranty to 10 years, but I know they are afraid to do that.
Consumer was in traffic and without prior warning heard a thumping noise coming from front end of vehicle. Then, vehicle shutoff. Vehicle was towed. Dealership mechanic told consumer that he needed to replace transmission.
We've had this drivetrain vibration almost since the truck was purchased. Gm service dept. Has replaced 1 tire because they couldn't balace it. All the other tires have been rebalanced, all 5 tires have been rotated. The truck had the rear end parts replaced due to some type of failure. We've had the truck to gm's service dept. Several times for the vibration problems. We went through the bbb to have gm buy back which we lost. Gm refuses to do any more vibration related work on this truck. The truck also has the firestone steeltex a/t lt 245/75 r 16 tires, and I've asked our local gm service dept. If these tires are on the recall list, which they don't have an answer for. Sooner or later there is going to be vibration related parts failure and hopefully not at hwy speeds. Our truck is not the only truck with these problems. Gm has these problems with the '99,2000 and 2001 truck lines which they won't/can't fix. Please help us us and all the other people with the $30,000 lemons. Thank you.
While vehicle was in park consumers wife was standing outside of vehicle when turned on ignition, and pawl jumped from park into reverse. Vehicle rolled backwards, dragging wife with the door open. Vehicle stopped and crashed into another vehicle. Dealer could not determine what could have happened. *ak consumer feels accident was caused by a faulty park or neutral switch.
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While driving and coming to a stop vehicle will jump into neutral. Then, jumps back into drive with acceleration, almost hitting vehicle in front. Contacted dealer, and dealer stated that there was a problem with these vehicles.
We've had drivetrain vibration trouble with our truck since it was almost new. It has been in the service dept. Several times for this problem. The dealership has replaced different items without fixing the problems. The dealership has reduced some of the vibrations. The vibration gets bad enough that the dome light cover has fallen off due to vibrations. From what we've researched g.m. Has had problems with the '99,2000 &2001 silverado trucks and have been unable to fix the problems. The last visit to the service dept., we were told that "yes" there is vibration with our truck, but it's within gm specs and they can't or won't do anything else with it. We now have a problem when shifting from reverse to drive with our foot on the brake the truck sometimes jumps foward. We are going through arbitration with the better business bureau and speaking with the gm rep. About these problems, he felt that these problems were not safety related. I told him that if a truck jumps foward with the brake on is a safety problem. I told him the vibration problem was a safety issue also due to the stress put on vibrating parts in the short or long run. The gm rep. Is acting like we have the only truck with this problem, which is not the case. There is not enough room here to tell more about these problems and were more then happy to discuss these problems.
When brakes are applied vibration runs through vehicle, dealership has examined vehicle, and stated that premature wear of rear disc rotors were causing vibration.*ak also the front axle seal was leaking as well as the rear shocks, and the brake pads were cracked.
Well first off 1: vibrations at speeds of 40+ the front end feels like it going to fall apart the sterring wheel shakes violently when slowing as the the vibrating is going on, you have to come to a complete stop and put it park and then proceed and it might go away, it's like the driveline or shaft gets out of balance, and the brake barley work its like they are fighting against you putting pressure on them. #2: when you hit a bump with brakes applied the peddal starts pumping back and forth and you can barely stop. #3: front left suspension squeaks and rattles when making a right or left turn its like your shifting the weight and something is looose. #4: transmission clunks when putting into gear from park or into reverse almost as if a u-joint was bad but noise comes from tranny and driveshaft. And when coming to a stop you can feel the tranny down shifting like its just dropping out of gear the whole truck rocks. Well chevy need to do something before someone dies,, after reading the previous complaints I thought I just had a lemon but I see I'm not alone I took the trk to the dealer for the vibration and was told no problem existed but the vibration went away for awhile do they know something and just are told be quiet. Help me I should have got ford
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