2000 Chevrolet Silverado LT from North America - Comments

I have a 2000 model 1500 4x4 5 speed. When I depress the clutch the accelerator hangs or accelerates. The truck has been back to the dealership 2 times. The throttle body was cleaned 1st time, and I was told that nothing was wrong the 2nd time. Sometimes the truck idles at 1200rpm. I was told that this is normal though the truck has not done this for 130000 miles. I was also told that the truck is getting old and it is time to trade it in on a new one. If this happens, it will be foreign made. My foreign made truck had 280000 when I traded it and only received normal maintenance.

I have an 00' Silverado Extended cab - Owned it since 13, 000 miles back in 2001.

Yes the piston slap exists from day one, just like all the rest. Chevy redesigned the rings to resolve this problem.

The rotors were rusted in place. (they sold the 99-01 vehicles with rotors made out of a poor material- note: this has been changed too - Keep it quiet, they might hear you).

The steering column bulletin fixed whatever they had with the noises.

The tail-gate wires broke on my truck. I bought them literally months before they issued the bulletin. Fortunately, I'm young and didn't get hurt (yes I was standing on it at the time).

If your throttle feels like its sticking, it's because you need to clean out your throttle body. The engine has a major carbon build-up problem that you have to clean it out very ofter. The butterfly gets sticky, resulting in the hesitation in throttle application.

I just had to replace my ball joint due to the dealer over-lubricating the grease fitting. It resulted in the thing tearing due to too much in it (can't prove it, but keep an eye on them).

The right floor board has been leaky for a long time. The dealer claimed it's the aftermarket speakers. I say they just don't feel like troubleshooting the problem.

65,000 miles on my motorcycle hauler and going. Fresh tryanny flush & differential change. It's been a struggle sometimes, but I still like my truck. The new 07' has been redesigned, so there is hope. Note: They got rid of the grease fittings in the front-end, amen for that.

Subject: 2000 Chevrolet Silverado 2WD Extended Cab.

Have owned this truck since it was delivered to the dealership where I bought it. Now has 125k miles on it, I love my truck, but all these differant problems that have occured since bought are just overwhelming to all of us die hard Chevrolet truck owners. Brakes, ABS Sensor, Engine Knock, Throttle stick, Tailgate cables, Light bulb sockets, Shocks, ect... i could go on and on it seems. But I still love the truck. I feel for all you Silverado owners and digust, But I will never own a Ford or Forgein brand. I will keep this truck until the frame rots into. If I buy another truck, it will be a used one, But it will be a Chevy. Maybe the 2007 model will not have the problems as the 1999-2005 models.

I have a 2005 4 x 4 LT Silverado and have the steering column noise. Wondering what the bulletin was about that fixed the problem. Any help?

The problem I have with General Motors products are pretty general. I guess the biggest problem is the "little" things that go wrong with GM cars and trucks. For example, if you've ever had to do something as simple as change a tail light, you know that you're going to need a torx head screwdriver. What you may not be aware of is that you'll need more than one size of torx head screwdriver.

I'm a typical guy with a typical selection of tools, but I don't have every tool out there so I had to go to an auto parts store and purchase more tools. Total cost to replace a light bulb just tripled. On the other hand, I've owned "foreign" vehicles and I use the word "foreign" to mean that the vehicles were made here in the good ole USA unlike so called "American Made" which are actually made in other countries like Canada, Mexico, Brazil, etc. but that's another comment for another day. The point is, that with "foreign" vehicles, you can take a phillips head screwdriver and a 10mm wrench and darn near take the whole car apart. The only problem with that is that they don't break down, therefore, you don't have to use the tools that you do have, much less the tools you don't.

Not to mention that my GM vehicle just doesn't feel tight. It runs okay, but things like the switch for the AC/Heat doesn't work, can't change the oil because I can't get the hood latch open because first the cheap little piece of plastic junk broke and then after a couple of oil changes using pliers to open it by pulling the cable... the cable of course broke. The cheap plastic "cubby" in the passenger side door just fell off one day, but not because it was being abused. I rarely have anyone in the car with me but a client got in the car with me one day and opened the door and it fell off. Great job there GM.

Again, I'm not saying that my vehicle is a piece of junk, far from it. It's just that compared with so called "foreign" vehicles, it doesn't fare well in comparison. I can get in my Nissan that is almost as old and it still feels tight, doesn't have a squeak or rattle, feels like it could go from here to there, right now! In my GM, I feel like I'd better baby it a little. Not take any chances on any kind of maneuver such as going around a curve a little too quickly or heaven forbid, try to turn on the AC or Heat because, like I said before, they don't work. Sometimes, the heat will kick on about thirty miles into a drive but really, I don't drive 8.4 miles to the office anyway. So it is a cold drive every morning. I hesitate to put the windows down in the summer to try to get some air because the power windows are iffy. Most of the time they will work but not all the time. It never fails that if I can't get the window back up, it'll rain and then it's a soggy, humid drive back home but hey, at least I'm a little cooler in the summer.

My suggestion is this...

GM; start making your cars in America, by Americans using American engineering, American materials. That's what the Japanese car companies are doing. Why is it good enough for them and not for GM? If or when GM starts producing vehicles here, I'll be first in line to buy a new one. Until then, I'll just take my chances and money to a Nissan, Toyota or even to a Mitsubishi dealership.