general problems of the 2004 Chevrolet Suburban

Vehicle gas gauge and odometer gauges clusters are not working this puts us in danger I did not know how much gas I need and how fast I was going this should be fixed by the manufacturer because it was a cluster defect.

The gm instrument cluster stepper motors and lights have failed. This results in a safety hazard because it is important to know the speed of the vehicle and the fuel level as well as other important engine information.

Tl-the contact owns a 2004 Chevrolet Suburban 1500. The contact stated that while driving at 15 mph the vehicle accelerated independently, causing the contact to lose control of the vehicle. The contact stated that the vehicle left the roadway, hit a ditch, went airborne and flip onto the passenger's side of the vehicle. The contact stated that the vehicle was repaired under technical service bulletins: pit3598 (seat) for adjustment to the brake and accelerator pedals the vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic. There was no police report filed. The contact sustained injuries which did not require medical attention. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The vehicle was destroyed. The approximate failure mileage was 129,000. Ah.

Speed reads 120mph and not moving.

Bought this vehicle a few days before the first incident. I drove it home from over two hours away, drove it all around the day before, no problems. Then I was driving down a bypass at about 60 miles an hour and the engine shut off! I had no power steering, nothing! I was able to pull over, shut it off and once I turned it back over it was just fine. So I cautiously started driving, it happened again a few miles down the road only this time it stalled then regained power and quickly shut off again. Once engine was turned off and restarted, it was fine, it did this to me 5 times within 5 miles. I almost got hit two of those times by other vehicles, once when I was turning onto a road. I am glad my kids were not in it. I am scared to drive on two lane roads without room to pull over.

Speedometer does not work or indicates wrong speed. Most instrument gauges are not working or are intermittent in their operation.

Speedometer reads that I'm going faster than I am. I cannot tell how fast I am going. When the vehicle is off it registers 10mph. This concerns me greatly since this is my only vehicle and I have three children that ride with me everywhere I go. I researched this on the internet have found many many problems with the speedometer on this vehicle. Should be a recall. This is dangerous!!!!.

The entire control panel on the dash will go out including: speedometer, rpm, gas, oil, etc. When this happens the message center, including the odometer, is blank also. At first this happened periodically upon starting up the vehicle it would not come on but would come own a few minutes after driving. Then it started not coming on at all.

Was driving at a very low rate of speed; trying to stop when what felt like the antilock brakes kicked on and the message "traction active" appeared on my console. This made it very difficult to control and stop the vehicle. Then when trying to accelerate, vehicle would lug down and not want to go. There was also a noise, like a pump or something when trying to brake or accelerate. Turning off the stabilitrack seems to stop this from happening, which in turn means I do not have antilock brakes. This is a huge safety issue, especially if trying to merge, pass through an intersection or while driving at a high rate of speed.

The engine light would come on and immediately the stability system disengage light would come on also. The vehicle would go down to approximately 1500 rpm and drop the speed to 50-55 mph, on the freeway. The speed limit is 65 and we were in the middle lane of 3 lanes. It has happened numerous times now. I have taken the vehicle to a mechanic 3 times. A diagnostic test was ran each time and every time there different codes that pop up, one different from the previous.

At random you will just be driving down the road and a message comes on that says reduce engine power and the t/c light comes on along with the check engine light. This has happened several times, is very unsafe, and is getting worse. We have had work done to try and fix the problem but its still happening. We don't have tons of money to fix this, live in the country, and have 5 kids. This is our only transportation and we have a rather large loan on the thing and its turning into yard art.

2004 Chevrolet Suburban goes into reduced power engine w/o reason change the engine, because high miles, change transmission, change throttle body,change gas pedal module, change catalytic converter spend over 4,000 on the truck without counting the accident can occur in the interstate 78 west because of the lost of power, dealers don't know what is the problem neither the local mechanics can you please take action in this matter and read at edmonds. Com and see all the complains about the same problem.

I started the homeward segment of an 800 mile trip on July 4th weekend. Speed odometer appears to be working correctly because I made it through the first police radar checkpoint without any problems. I exited the interstate and entered a 4 lane highway. After driving an estimated 50 miles for the day I was stopped by the state police. He said that his radar had me going 74 in a 55 speed zone when me speed odometer indicated 55 mph. When the officer informed me of my speed, I looked at my speed odometer and saw the needle was below 0 mph. The scary part of this is that I did not realize that I was going over the speed limit, probably because I was acclimated to the higher interstate speed, my speed odometer indicated I was traveling the speed limit, and up until this time I had no indication that my speed odometer was not working properly. I continued with the trip and used my gps to keep me at a safe speed the rest of the trip. I compared the speed odometer mph with the gps mph many times throughout the rest of the trip. The speed odometer went down to 0 mph when I was driving 65 mph after driving an estimated additional 40 miles. After driving an additional 30 miles the speed odometer was indicating the correct speed. The speed odometer malfunctioned about 70% of the trip. It would alternate between not working correctly and working correctly throughout the trip. I took the vehicle to the chevy dealer the first business day back home. The dealer said the whole instrument cluster must be replaced. I authorized the dealer to replace the instrument cluster and the defective instrument cluster is going back to be refurbished. This failure compromised not only my safety but also my family's safety and the safety of other drivers. Researching the internet, I am finding this problem seems to be widespread.

The speedometer is completely gone along with several gauges such as the oil, gas, and rpm meters. I am unable to tell how much gas I have or how fast I am going. This has happened a lot to these vehicles over the past 10 years. Gm offered a repair but only for vehicles who were not over a certain mileage. This is a safety issue and needs to be repaired in all vehicles. Additional, the electrical system is out of whack. My heated seats turn all the way up to high without me pressing anything. My tv system is not working. Everything seems to be falling apart.

The contact owns a 2004 Chevrolet Suburban. The contact was driving 70 mph when the reduce engine power stability warning message displayed as the vehicle abnormally decelerated. The vehicle was taken to a local mechanic who advised that the throttle body, throttle body sensors and the catalytic converter needed to be replaced. The remedy failed to repair the problem. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure who did not offer any assistance since the vehicle was no longer under warranty. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 80,000 and the current mileage was 183,632.

The speedometer has gone out. I have read many entries on a website that this wa s an ongoing problem with Chevrolet tahoes. , and the price to get it fixed ranged from $400 to $1000. That was a bit to expensive. I think there needs to be a recall . This car is only 3 years old. This shouldn't be happening.

Traffic citation issued to my husband while driving my 2004 Chevrolet Suburban due to faulty speedometer on 6/29/07.

: the contact stated the vehicle speedometer displayed an incorrect reading on the dash panel gauge. The incorrect display was constant and favored no particular speed. However the most common evidence of this problem was while driving at a low speed the gauge displayed an outrageously high speed. The dealer and manufacturer have been contacted.