1997 Chevrolet Silverado Reviews - Page 7 of 11

I recently purchased my '97 Chevy Silverado truck from a used car dealer locally and have only put 200 miles on it since driving it home.

When I test drove it, it drove and ran fine with only a few noticeable problems.

First the CD player quit working and ate my favorite CD. I replaced the radio/CD player with a new aftermarket one.

Now I am having trouble with the automatic transmission. It slips, shifts hard from lower gears to higher gears, and the speedometer quit working.

At the same time, the "check engine" light came on, as well as the "ABS" light.

I notice a "glitch" in the steering when turning right at slower speeds as per other comments in this forum.

While I haven't noticed any leaks in the cooling system YET, it appears I have nearly all of the problems previously identified with these trucks.

I wish I had known about the problems with these trucks before I bought mine.

I bought an extended warranty with the truck, and hope I can get the problems fixed by the dealer I bought the truck from.

I haven't had problems with the cooling system yet, but will be watching for signs of the problem.

I purchased the truck used in the fall of 1999. One month after I bought it the auto. trans went out. That was almost $1,000, thank God for warranty.

Sounds to me like we all share the same problems, a lot of it anyhow. I went through 2 alternators between 45 and 50,000, water pump, fuel pump at around 62,000, I haven't experienced any leakage yet and have never had to add a quart of oil. My Speed sensor in the steering is going now at about 75,000 and was wandering if anybody has changed one? I would like to do this myself. I don't think that this is under recall, but as far as I can tell it should be. It is an unsafe condition and dangerous. Thanks Scott.

This has been a relitively good truck, but it can be a pain in my butt sometimes.

I have 95,500 miles on my truck, and not a thing has gone wrong with it.

It is a great truck and a powerhouse at that. It performs extremely well.

The only thing that went wrong was the U-joints, and that was from break torquing the truck to much.

This truck is amazing, I have more power than I ever expected from this kind of truck. It is a regular cab step side Z71. If you want more power than you will ever need, just add a flowmaster delta flow 40 and a K&N airfilter. I can smoke any of my friends trucks with V-8's. This truck is awesome off road, I haven't got stuck once, I have pushed this truck really hard and it wants more every time. I highly recommend this type of truck if you want more power than you need and want a very capable off road vehicle.

Shifts hard from 1st into second and the service engine light stays on -- we have replaced every known sensor on this truck and it still comes on - Any suggestions.