2004 Chevrolet Tahoe: jerking or lurching

7 of the 467 complaints about the 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe describe jerking or lurching.

owner complaints: 7
of this car's complaints: 1%
typical mileage: 68,223
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 44 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

Jerking or lurching by model year

2026
3
2024
2
2023
5
2022
2
2021
7
2020
2
2019
2
2018
3
2017
11
2016
11
2015
12
2013
3
2012
1
2010
4
2009
3
2008
3
2007
9
2005
5
2004
7
2003
10
2002
5
2001
4
2000
2
1999
13
1998
7
1997
26
1996
4

What owners say

Filed Aug 26, 2013 · Brakes, Suspension · 107,000 miles · MN · fire

Abs light came on. While braking to enter an on-ramp, steering wheel jerked and passenger side front wheel almost broke off.

Filed Dec 14, 2006 · Electrical · 43,025 miles · IL

One day while traveling on the highway at around 70 MPH, the speedometer was acting strange. The speedometer was jerky. Once I got off the highway and came to a complete stop the speedometer went pass 0 MPH. Then when I got going again on city streets the speedometer was off by 20 MPH. Eventually the speedometer stop working on that trip. Ever since that day the speedometer has been jerky and sometimes reporting the wrong speed or not working at all.

Filed Nov 27, 2006 · Electrical · 52,000 miles · SC

I have a 2004 chevrolet tahoe that the speedometer registers incorrectly or not at all. When the needle moves it moves with a jerky motion.

Filed Nov 15, 2006 · Electrical · 50,000 miles · TX

We have seen dozen of incidents in the past few months where the speedometer began ticking, became jerky, or stopped working all together. Sometimes it will display a speed obviously lower than the actual speed (like 30 on the highway where we are going at least 55). Other times, it will sit at 0 while the car is cruising down the road. This problem is intermittent. Sometime stopping and restarting the car fixes it. We will go a week or more without the problem and sometime we see it multiple times in one day. We have not repaired the issue yet. Internet searching indicates the average repair cost to be between $500 and $1,200. Similar searching also indicates that this has been seen by at least hundreds of people on variations of the tahoe (suburban, avalanche, etc). There is even someone on ebay who has a hole business around fixing broken instrument clusters for these vehicles.

Filed Nov 3, 2006 · Acceleration, Electrical · 70,000 miles · MO

I drive a 2004 tahoe ls. I am a salesman and drive quite a bit and have racked up around 95,000 miles to this day. While driving, about a year ago, I noticed my speedometer acting erratically. The needle would jump or lurch past each number as it ascended through the numbers on the speedometer. It was more noticeable in the 55 to 75mph range. The speed was still accurate so I viewed it as a non-issue. However, as time went on the accuracy began to degrade as I started noticing the speedometer would stop at 40 MPH while I was driving highway speeds. The degradation has continued up to now where I am lucky if the needle even moves off of 0 MPH. When the needle does move it freezes at about 15 MPH forcing me to guess at my speed by monitoring the tachometer. This is a pretty dangerous situation and I would like to assume gm would look to remedy this situation quickly. The alternative is for the consumer to foot the bill of a $500-$1100 repair cost for a manufacturer's defect as many dealers already know that the "cluster needs to be replaced". This is a well-documented issue for gms built in the 2003 to 2005 model years which we, as consumers who have already invested at least $40,000 on these vehicles, need to see remedied. P.s. The 07 ford expedition and expedition el appear to be very nice

Filed Sep 26, 2006 · Acceleration · 68,223 miles · CA

2004 chevy tahoe-speedometer acting erratic. First notice problem while driving on the freeway doing 70 MPH,then applied brakes to slow down and the speedometer went down to 30 MPH. I came back to 70 MPH, so I thought ,but traffic was passing me up like if they were doing 100 MPH. In reality I was doing about 50 MPH. Next day it was working fine,but now the speedometer is jerky. Reading chevy tahoe forums a lot of people are having the same problems and after a few days of the jerky speedometer the speedometer completely goes out. This needs to be recalled.

Filed Jan 6, 2006 · Acceleration · TX

Dt*: the contact stated while starting the vehicle it lurches forward six inches to one foot. This only occurs while the vehicle is parked. The dealer determined this was a common problem with this year, make, and mode,l but did not offer a remedy.