2007 Chevrolet Tahoe: grinding or squealing brakes

Filed Jul 6, 2019 · Body, Brakes · 260,000 miles · GA

Bad engine cuts off while driving. Burn excessive oil and water. Motor makes loud noises. Brakes have to be changed every 2 months. Grinding noises when you take your feet of the gas , sounds like a 18 wheeler breaking down to stop. Now the engine won't turn over. Replaced sensors and timing but still not cranking. So now it needs a motor. Dashboard is cracked up so bad you can see inside to airbag. Which sometimes gets extremely hot.

Filed Oct 24, 2011 · Brakes, Electrical · 28,545 miles · VA

Peeling interior paint - two of the four doorhandles paint is peeling causing sharp and jagged edges resulting in cut fingers. Brakes - all brakes and rotors bad at 39,000 miles and had to be replaced. Way too early! Now the brakes squeal all the time, are soft and had to be flushed 2 times within 6 months of each other. Windows - continuing issues with the windows screeching when going up and down. Attempted to fix three times and just keeps repeating. Is starting to scuff/scratch the glass and leave oil streaks. Was told this is normal. Rear liftgate (manual) - struts freeze every winter so that the tailgate does not go up all the way. Have hit head on this numerous times. Been replaced 3 times and counting.

Filed Nov 4, 2009 · Brakes · 36,000 miles · CO

Tl* the contact owns a 2007 chevrolet tahoe. When the consumer applied pressure on the brake pedal at 35 MPH, he heard metal grinding. A certified mechanic replaced the rear rotors and brake pads. The failure and current mileages were 36,000. Updated 12/7/09 *cn the right rear disc brake pad failed. The ceramic pad detached and disintegrated from the pads metal backing plate, which then came in contact with the rotor of the disc. Updated 12/08/09.

Filed Mar 26, 2009 · Transmission · 64,012 miles · MO

02/19/07 mileage: 20,748 vehicle quit pulling itself,trans one way clutch inside 3-4 clutch housing stripped,remove trans.,teardown, replace one way clutch and seals. Flush oil cooler and lines. Install trans. 04/10/07 mileage: 23,292 grinding noise from front end, left front hub bearing loose, replaced left front hub bearing assembly 03/25/09 mileage: 64,012 vehicle quit pulling itself, waiting for tow and diagnosis.

Filed May 21, 2008 · 10,000 miles · MD

I leased a 2007 tahoe in june 2006. After about 10k or 15k I began to hear alot of noise when turning left or right. I asked the tahoe dealership to check it out and they stated it was not a problem. Months later the problem continued to get worse an louder. Same dealership states it not a problem. The clicking, squealing noise have gotten worse. Third time same dealership states there's nothing wrong. May 21, 2008, I go to a different dealership for a service and because all my friends say there has to be something wrong. I was told that it is a known problems with gm model, I.e., tahoe yukons suburbuns. The intermediate shaft that is installed wears out, and has to be replaced, in models dating back to 98 at least. He states I would have to pay for repair. I researched an found that hundreds of complaints and forums about the very problem but there is no recall about. They have been using the same shaft for years and now have improved part that consumers have to pay for out of their pockets. How can they knowlingly place bad parts in vehicles and not be responsible for repairing. I was told that unless they had a new for the intermediate shaft it would have to be replaced every 10k miles.

Filed Jun 13, 2007 · Suspension, Transmission · 20,748 miles · MO

2007 tahoe with a malfunctioning transmission customer states that the car just stopped in the middle of traffic just after 20 thousand miles than at 23 thousand miles the left front hub bearing loose**cc the consumer provided an invoice for repairs. The dealer stated grinding noise from front end, dealer replaced left front hub bearing assembly.

Filed Jun 6, 2007 · Transmission · 20,000 miles · CA

I have a brand new 2007 chevy tahoe, the car was driving normal, I was heading to the on ramp of the freeway, but to get into the freeway I had to make a right and then the on ramp is in front of me. Of course you also had cars coming from the right of me. When I saw a gap where I could go, I floored the gas, to go into the freeway, when I heard a loud noise, and all of the sudden the car slowed down. I had to think quick being that the car was an automatic, I shifted to a lower gear, the car started moving but it was making a grinding noise. I finally got out of the way. And I called onstar, my transmission had given. On a 6 month old 2007 tahoe. They took it to the dealer, at the dealership they replaced a gear inside the transmission, to no avail. Finally they ended up replacing the whole transmission, because they couldn't figure what was wrong the car. No warning lights or nothing. The guy at the dealership told me, that this was so weird that the techs in michigan wanted the whole transmission shipped to them. They had the SUV for a total of 21 days.

Filed Dec 4, 2006 · Brakes, Electrical · 10,605 miles · CA

We took our vehicle to the dealer for a 3rd time now (look for my other complaint on this website on electrical problems/windshield problems) for the same problem plus a number of multiple other problems. The problem that the dealer can't seem to remedy is the windshield wipers and wiper spray keep coming on all by themselves and cannot be turned off unless you turn the vehicle off and then restart it. They've replaced the windshield wiper module but they still come on randomly. The heated seats sometimes don't work and in order to get them to work you must restart the car. The front passenger window will randomly not roll up or down from the drivers side master switch and will only start working after restarting the vehicle. When I took my car to get serviced (oil change) the mechanic noticed several leaks under the vehicle, one coming from the engine bell housing another from the rack and pinion area and the third from the power steering pump housing area. When we took it to the dealer they cleaned the engine pan (I have before pictures) and added an engine dye and they stated they found no leaks, we'll check it again after a few hundred miles. They also cleaned up the other leaks from the other areas and claimed no leaks. Our mechanic also noticed while rotating the tires that the front right rotors were deeply grooved which answers my question as to why my brakes have been squeaking. He says that with only 10,000 miles it is not normal for them to be grooved, and is definitely a defect with the calipers probably sticking. Showed the dealer and the service writer stated it was normal, that cannot be normal. So now they resurfaced the rotor and the brakes are still squeaking. After bringing my vehicle home from the dealer for repairs the car locked "itself" I did not lock it, the car keys were not even in my hands anymore they were hanging on the key rack. There are definitely some major electrical problems and mechanical problems with this vehicle.