Three problems related to exterior lighting have been reported for the 2003 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2003 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 based on all problems reported for the 2003 Silverado 1500.
Bright lite indicator lite comes on dash with no key in ignition, kills battery over nite. Gas gauge in dash doesn't always work, truck has to get moving, sometimes right away and sometimes a little longer. Had to replace my throttle body control a couple months prior.
Just leaving home to go look at some parts for a pole barn and left driveway went to stop sigh , I proceeding to go down mitchell hill rd and on the second turn no brakes , luckily I have some experience in this area and instantly applied my emergency brake and put truck into lower gear . This was enough to slow me down so I didn't go over the guard rail but did hit it roughly . I made it to the bottom and coasted to a stop . Got out and looked under hood and truck to find brake fluid was pouring on to the ground. I had it towed home . Upon further inspection I located the cause of brake failure was due to brake lines broke due to heavy rust all over them . . Now I do a little research online for replacement parts and find out that this is a serious issue with many owners of Chevrolet silverado's . Why hasn't their been a recall . Why is because of the amount of money involved and gm doesn't want to pay . So someone else will be paid , but not the owners . Or a fatality will have to occure for someone to make a decision . That's the world we live in now ! sad but true .
These incidents happened during the following yrs at least 3 times a year now for each yr from 2005 till 2015 coming home from daughters and lost all head lamps and driving lights so was driving in complete darkness with no lights , thankfully we made it home the last 2 miles next day took to mechanic and he replaced the lamps , two weeks later got pulled over due to running lights one was out and got warning about that . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This has happened 12 times since we owned this truck since 2005 and we have had to replace the whole headlamp assembly but now after 6 months lights go out again and get pulled over due to only one headlamp is there a problem with the wiring? mostly this is just on drivers side headlamp and running light it keeps blowing the lamps out occasionally it blows both sides and front running lamps.
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