Gasoline Fuel System Problems of Chevrolet Silverado 1500 - part 2

The contact owns a 2008 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. The contact stated there was an overpowering gasoline odor from the interior of the vehicle as the vehicle was abnormally consuming fuel rapidly. The vehicle was taken to the dealer nine times. The vehicle was never repaired and the contact stated that the dealer would never inform him of his findings after examining the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to a local repair facility where he was advised that four of the cylinders had no compression. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure continued to recur. The failure mileage was 7,000 and the current mileage was 19,932.

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Fuel gauge erratic. Says low fuel upon fill up. Doesn't stay settled to give good fuel reading.

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- the contact stated the vehicle was idling low. The vehicle has been taken to a repair shop to be adjusted once. Since the adjustment the gas mileage has gotten worst. He said the vehicle is running at about 1000 rpm to warm up.

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Several years ago my fuel gauge began acting up. It would flip quickly to the "no gas" position periodically and then flip back several minutes later. The low fuel light would go off and on. When I fill the truck up it always flips to the empty position and then begins it's back and forth flipping. I have trained everyone in my family to always reset the mileage indicator and watch it carefully to insure they don't run out of gas. I've had numerous cars over the years (Honda for 20 years) and have never experienced a problem like this. At the present time, two people I know with the same truck built the same year or within a year of mine have the same problem. I'm wondering why a recall has not been issued for this problem.

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Throttle body sticking at low speeds throttle sticks until pedal is pushed beyond desired point causing vehicle to surge forward. I hit garage wall. Exact problem occurred at 30,000 miles, dealer replaced throttle body(bad bushings) under warranty.

First incident of the fuel sensor failing (low fuel light and fuel gauge indicator false) was at 45,500 miles which was covered under warranty the first time. 2nd time failed on 02/16/2009 at 133,697 miles which costs me 754. 67. 3rd time which is currently starting to act up again at 174,500 miles, and will probably cost me another 754. 67!! first of all I can understand once on a vehicle but 3 times is ridiculous, not to mention the expense! Chevrolet should have had some type of recall on this or least figure out what is causing this. No doubt this is a defect with this part and very expensive to repair. I'm about to get rid of this vehicle due to this problem which will still cost me money in the end with trade-in or selling it myself so I will probably have repair it for the 3rd time. I have researched this problem and it seems a lot of people have experienced this issue. I have lost faith in gm and will probably never purchase another one. This issue could be dangerous if people do not correct this problem. Not everyone has 750. 00 laying around and gm should fix for free especially when it happens a 2nd, 3rd time!.