Chevy Silverado Owner Says, “Am I Disgruntled? Yes, I Am. Wouldn’t You Be If You Paid $50K for a Truck That’s Been in the Shop 5 Times Before it Hit 40K?

I don't see the problem here. Just lemon law the vehicle and get out from underneath it. It's just not that big a deal.

Bought a used 2022 silverado rst in May, going to the dealer on Saturday because the instrament cluster keeps blacking out and I have to disconnect the battery for it to come back, collision avoidance isn't working so the adaptive cruise control is inoperable, a/c evaporator freezes up in less than 20 min of driving and the transmission shudders at 35 miles an hour while pulling a small grade but it sure looks pretty in the driveway

It's pretty simple, they squeezed us to see how much we would spend, THEN made everything even more crappy.
Want it to end? Let that junk sit in the lots, stop buying new trucks, there's no reason they should cost that much and be lemons.

Bought my GMC Sierra 4x4 Z71 V8 in 2013 with 4mi, now at 96k mi been pretty reliable even towing and overloading the bed with 6k pounds of Oak. Basic truck for $40k financed $22 and will keep the truck as long as I drive! Leaned to do most minor maintenance myself, no dealer to F up the tepairs

Also disgruntled with my 2021.
It was my first Chev, and definitely going to be my last!!!

Have a 2022 est model 15000 mils towed to dealer fuel modular. Now trany not shifting right. WTF

In 2022 my husband and I both opted for new trucks. I chose a 2020 Trail Boss. Though a brand new one was on the lot, to me it had less options. I chose the 2020 with 20000 miles. I felt the miles were high but I still liked it better than the 2022. Both were black and looked exact from outside. My husband 6 months later night a 2022 RST. His was brand-new and within months a lifter needed to be replaced, almost exactly a year later another lifter needed to be replaced. We traded it when it felt like transmission was going. We decided that we would only buy 2020 and older. Since Covid everything seems to be of less quality. He now has a 2020 Challenger and I am still enjoying my Trail Boss.

I have a 2022 GMC LT 4that had less than 40,000 miles when they engine developed a bottom end knock, inspection by dealership showed crank was walking back and forth and parts in oil pan . Fix.. new motor, then E brake locked up and engine wouldnt start .. floated back to dealer new 4x4 parts needed .. hardly ever used ..needded to fix this problem..Now console shifter wont go
into gear.. now back to dealer this week ..Hows that for a LEMMON!!

The increasing use of plastics to replace steel and aluminum inside the engines plus the complexities in engine and transmission manufacture are the leading cause of failures. Also the heating and cooling tech for vehicles. Ford had an amazing opportunity to bring back quality and dependability with the bronco and bronco sport. Now I find out the oil pan is plastic on the bronco sport which will be a fail point. The transmission fails are our own faults for being too lazy to shift gears. I knew the increasing complexities in engine and transmission coupled with poor quality material would cause disappointment and bingo, here we are.

Always owned Silverados. These new trucks are crap. Yes, GM needs to make changes. Go back to the basics please! A truck is supposed to be a truck. Create a new model of grocery getter truck for soccer mom's and guys that want to look cool. Make the Silverado the tough truck it used to be. I live in the Rockies and had to rid myself of both my 2010 and 2014 were disappointing junk piles a few years in. Stupid me lost $ 2 years in on 2014, but the truck had to go. I now have a 2019 second gen. I gave up on fancy trims because I need a real truck to tow, haul, get thru snow and rocks. I bought a WT with LT appearance package simply because I wanted the tried and true GM 5.3L and not deal with the reliability. My truck has already had oil cooler lines, multiple recalls and the radiator (plastic junk) broke and left me stranded at 36k. I am thankful though I insisted on not having 10 spd transmission nor the extras with a higher trim level. I had hoped I learned my lesson on the last 2. At least with a basic truck I've escaped the worst. My 2 LTZ's had so many issues and the new '25 trucks? Nope! No way will GM get my $ again until they build a real, tried and true solid truck for people who need a truck to be a truck again. So....I am likely never to buy another. I owned Silverados since my '82 short bed. I have a '74 C10 long bed in the garage. Now those were real trucks.

2024 GMC Sierra 1500. 7,500km on it. Stranded on the road. Transmission is gone. 5 weeks to replace it. Three weeks after repair and just 2500km more on the truck transmission gone again.
Garbage, garbage, garbage.

New water pump 3 years old new transmission at 4 years old paint is peeling now 2018 ltz

Get you a Toyota tundra

I have a 2025 Silverado 1500 RST with a 5.3 v8 and have had zero issues. Up to 9000 miles now. Had a 2021 before this one with the same motor and 36k miles..not one problem. Same story with my 2018 version and my 2015. My 2002 needed a new fuel pump at 120k but other than that no issues.

Have got original Chevrolet Z 71 black looks brand new. The engine has 230,000 miles. The engines never been worked on, has the original radiator Ater starter transmission transfer case and muffler. I get stopped on the road people who wants to buy it. The new trucks are crap. Get an old one.

My husband bought a 2024 silverado 2500 HD on Nov of 2023 work truck. He has 61800. Miles on it and the transmission is not shifting and sending a service code
GM dealer says if its a body value the part is on national backorder and we can not release your truck until part comes in for safety reasons.

Out of all three brands the one I've had the best luck with was Ram they've all treated me pretty good! General motors was the biggest roach out there and my experiences! You fix one issue and another issue arises fords ain't much better than GM.

Sorry for your frustrations! I agree, they should be good for 300k without issues.

I bought my 2021 Sierra 1500 in jackson .mi did not have 10000 miles on a 5.3 motor and 3 lifters collapsed it was in the shop for over a month . Now I have a flashing check engine lite it went back to the dealer they had it for 2 weeks and said a engineer said it was normal I still have a check engine light that comes on and leaves no codes and turns off in two days last gm I will ever buy

I just sold my 2020 silverado 3.0l diesel LTZ.

Under 30k miles I had alr3ady replaced 3 glow plugs... by the time it hit 94k miles when I sold it, I had replaced 7 glow plugs (on a 6 cylinder) a fuel pump, an oil pump, and an oil cooler. I will never own a 1500 again. I'm very disappointed. I feel like a diesel truck should barely be broken in at 100k miles, but mine didn't even make it to 94k before having all of that go wrong with it. Needless to say, GM, Ford, Ram/Stellantis should all reel in their quality control and do better. Disposable pickup trucks is disgraceful. I have a buddy who runs Ram 1500's and has had many of the same issues. I'm sad to see this is where our level of acceptability is as consumers.

My grandfather's 1975 GMC Sierra still runs with over 500k miles and needs very little to keep it going.

I took my 2020 Chevy Silverado to the dealership for a 60,000 mile maintenance service and a rubbing sound that was a brake pad.
The service manager said that my engine froze and that I needed a new engine.
I thought he was joking at first.
He proceeded to tell me that I would get a new engine and that I could pick it up the next week.
I finally got my truck nearly a month later with a Rebuilt engine and he tells me that the warranty is good for five months..
Now I am driving junk.

I guess I lucked out.

I bought a brand new 2024 Chevy Silverado 2500 HD LTZ with the 6.6 liter gas engine and 10 speed Allison transmission.

I’ve had it nearly two years now, it’s got 45,000 miles on it. I tow trailers occasionally with my Harley, junk and tree limbs to the dump, and a dump trailer, hauled several tons of topsoil into my yard.

But most of my miles are interstate highway driving.

I haven’t had a single, serious issue out of my truck yet.

I am beginning to experience some “front end shudder” when breaking at high speeds. That usually indicates rotors that need turning. The dealer says this is an issue that is no longer covered by my warranty, and if the rotors can’t be turned, I’ll need new rotors.

I’m a little perturbed that I might need new rotors with only 45,000 miles on my truck. My Son is a certified GM Master Technician and he told me that the rotors they put on new trucks these days, are so thin, that most of the time they can’t be turned and just need to be replaced.

Really? What happened to putting solid, well made rotors on trucks? Especially trucks that might be doing more than just going to the grocery store?

Other than this issue, I love my truck and am very satisfied with it.

Bought a 2023 Chevy ZR2 top of the line model. Paid 78,000 dollars for this truck. Radio is a big issue, it cuts in and out for the first 2 minutes. They reprogrammed that and now it just happens every once and a while. Biggest issues is the Oil consumption, I have to add 3-4 Quarts of oil between changes. Usually every 4000 miles. Average usage is 2 quarts every 2000 miles.
They did all the oil consumption test and it failed the test and now they say im under recall but they do not have a fix yet.
I have to pay for all the extra oil that is used during the test and after the test.
This truck is equipped with the 6.2L V8 and i pull a 20ft bass boat with it. Thats the most i pull and it does a great job, just using lots of oil while doing it!