Help Me Chevy!

jasonlidtke · January 10, 2008

Okay I need some help GM. I have a 2004 Chevy Silverado 1/2 ton Z71 with a 5.3 V8 with only 27,000 miles on it. i paid $37,000 sticker for this truck new. "I baby it". And this is a great truck! But help! my speedometer will either stay at zero when I'm driving or bounce all over the place 50% of the time. I'm going to get a speeding ticket one of the times it acts up. Chevy is trying to fix it for free and say its the instrument panel cluster, but they have put in 5 clusters in the last 2 months!!! and no improvements! I've even trying taking it to other Chevy dealers thinking my local one may not know what they are doing and still no fix! The Truck is going in for its 6 cluster next week! Come on Chevy! Make me a loyal fan again...Any thoughts on what else it could be????

Zembonez · January 10, 2008

Okay I need some help GM. I have a 2004 Chevy Silverado 1/2 ton Z71 with a 5.3 V8 with only 27,000 miles on it. i paid $37,000 sticker for this truck new. "I baby it". And this is a great truck! But help! my speedometer will either stay at zero when I'm driving or bounce all over the place 50% of the time. I'm going to get a speeding ticket one of the times it acts up. Chevy is trying to fix it for free and say its the instrument panel cluster, but they have put in 5 clusters in the last 2 months!!! and no improvements! I've even trying taking it to other Chevy dealers thinking my local one may not know what they are doing and still no fix! The Truck is going in for its 6 cluster next week! Come on Chevy! Make me a loyal fan again...Any thoughts on what else it could be????

I'm usually willing to allow the dealer a little slack but, After 5 clusters I would have left handprints around the service manager's neck.

TOTALLY Absurd.

Tell them to look for what the real problem is or take it to another dealer. If that doesn't work, get the regional GM rep involved. Throwing another part at it is a joke until somebody can accurately diagnose the issue.

sillyazz · January 10, 2008

Speed sensor in the transfer case ?

j.roffel · January 10, 2008

I agree, theres a speedo cable coming out of your tranny/t-case/somewhere in there, that goes to the back of your dash, it could be the sensor, the cable, or even that its just not bolted down tight enough.

sillyazz · January 10, 2008

I agree, theres a speedo cable coming out of your tranny/t-case/somewhere in there, that goes to the back of your dash, it could be the sensor, the cable, or even that its just not bolted down tight enough.

No cable, its just a sensor. They dont use cables to run the speedometers.

superjim · January 10, 2008

My brother had this same problem on his Escalade. It was the sensor on the transmission. After having his cluster replaced and not fixing the problem, they replaced the trans sensor. That fixed it.

Jim from Texas

GRB60 · January 10, 2008

You may have a wiring problem that is intermittent. Happened to me once on my Mustang. Turned out a wire was not fully "clicked" into the plug. It worked for the first couple thousand miles, but then was intermittently working until, after three weeks in the shop, it was found.

chevydriver37 · January 10, 2008

Your symptoms are the same ones that drove me absolutely insane for about 4 months. I replaced the speed sensor and the problem corrected itself for a bit, then the speedo needdle starting jumping all over. Figured it was a defective unit, and replaced it. Did that 4 times. I checked the connector and it was bad. Yours might just have a bad sensor. Try that first...

mini1 · January 10, 2008

i paid $37,000 sticker for this truck new.

You are a person of reduced intellectual dealership knowledge.

Zembonez · January 10, 2008

i paid $37,000 sticker for this truck new.

You are an idiot.

Way to welcome new people to the site Mini1... really makes it look like YOU are the idiot.

2000DV4.8 · January 10, 2008

i paid $37,000 sticker for this truck new.

You are an idiot.

Just because you paid less for your truck than somebody else did for theirs, doesn't give you the right to call them an idiot... Let's not start bashing people's financial decisions, or anything else for that matter.

cerbomark · January 11, 2008

hey Mini1 last time you acted like this I stuck up for you but that s not right/ maybe you belong on the Honda website or something or Don t Drink and Type.

Big Z welcome, we usually don thave this type of bad stuff here. Good site, good people, pleanty of info.

mini1 · January 11, 2008

Anyone who pays sticker for a vehicle (that isn't buying an Enzo or Carrera GT or some other exotic super rare car) is just not smart! I'm sorry, but there is no other way to put it. Even my 85 year old grandfather who can't see, hear or walk doesn't pay sticker for a car and he doesn't go to more then one dealership!

2000DV4.8 · January 11, 2008

Anyone who pays sticker for a vehicle (that isn't buying an Enzo or Carrera GT or some other exotic super rare car) is just not smart! I'm sorry, but there is no other way to put it. Even my 85 year old grandfather who can't see, hear or walk doesn't pay sticker for a car and he doesn't go to more then one dealership!

Yes, there are other ways to put it. You could have either said nothing (as your comment was in no way constructive), or you could have phrased it differently.

Zembonez · January 11, 2008

Anyone who pays sticker for a vehicle (that isn't buying an Enzo or Carrera GT or some other exotic super rare car) is just not smart! I'm sorry, but there is no other way to put it. Even my 85 year old grandfather who can't see, hear or walk doesn't pay sticker for a car and he doesn't go to more then one dealership!

Yes, there are other ways to put it. You could have either said nothing (as your comment was in no way constructive), or you could have phrased it differently.

It didn't even merit a comment... I think the original poster was just saying that it was an expensive truck new and he thought it shouldn't be having this problem. I don't think he was quoting sticker price or actual price paid.

Just the same, there is no call for name calling. It just makes you look like your personality is on permanent vacation.

Nobody is impressed with the drive by "knife in the back" strategy.

Being nice isn't a weakness.