general problems of the 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe - part 1

Power locks are failing for second time after replacing. The actuators do not last over 2 years. Each door costs $300 to repair. There are thousands of posts on the internet with this problem in multiple models and years. This needs to be a recall.

The locking mechanism on my chevy Tahoe 2008 ltz no longer works on the passenger side door. The electronic lock/unlock door mechanism no longer locks or unlocks the passenger door as well as the key remote no longer locks or unlocks the front passenger door. It sounds like from reading the other numerous complaints regarding this issue I can expect the rest of the door locks to quit operating at some point. This is obviously a real safety concern.

The company I work for purchased four 2008 Tahoes new. All have had door lock problems. Mine just happened on both driver side doors and it cost $741 to have fixed today at chevy dealer. I believe the other 3 Tahoes were under warranty at the time, but not sure. The Tahoe I drive was not under warranty. As others have said, you cannot unlock the rear doors since there is no key, and the manual button is not near the pillars so you cant reach it from the front doors. Its a bad situation if you needed to access the rear doors.

Drivers door and back hatch will bounce back open and not catch and then the door lock will not unlock to open the door by remote, door panel lock or by hand trapping person in the vehicle. Spoke to gm, they know this is an issue but unwilling at this time to put out a bulletin or recall.

The contact owns a 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe. The contact stated the front passenger and rear passenger interior power doors would not unlock upon engaging. The passenger seated in the front or rear exited the vehicle through the driver's side door. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer where the vehicle was being repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the problem. The approximate failure mileage was 52,000.

1. There were no significant events leading up to this. 2. The locks on the doors to not automatically unlock and lock. The actuator is failing. Happens approx. Every 2 years. This is on a 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe. 3. Actuator must be replaced at the cost of the vehicle owner.

After vacating the car through the front driver's side door, the electric door locks on the rear doors did not operate while my grandchildren were in the Tahoe. The doors would not unlock either with the fob or the electric switch in the Tahoe. This incident was very scary and could have been serious. Fortunately, I was able to reenter the Tahoe through driver's door, start the car, lower the rear windows, manually unlock the doors, and remove my grandchildren. Had this been an emergency, serious problems could have occurred. As a result of this problem, which has recurred many times, I am not willing to drive with my grandchildren in the Tahoe, unless an adult is available to accompany them in the rear seat.

The power door locks do not work. You have to manually lock them. They are suppose to automaticaly lock when the vehicle reaches 5 miles an hour for safety and they do not. One door lock was replaced under warrenty without my knowledge but now the other 3 are not working properly. The mechanic said that this has been a known problem with the Tahoes. It is over $200. 00 per door to replace. This vehicle is not even 5 years old and is under 30,000 miles.

I have a 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe ltz which has ~53000 mile on it. I have in the last 2 years replaced 2 door handles and 2 door lock actuators. Dealership actually told me this morning after had 2nd lock actuator replaced that another lock actuator failed. As you could imagine I wanted to explode. I was livid, especially at the cost of replacing these items. I did not have an issue with it before they started looking at the other one. It looked liked they were trying to milk me for money in my opinion. I am astonished that there has not been a recall on these items, as of yet. It is apparent that these parts are defective, especially the lock actuators. Any searches on the web or discussion with any dealer advisors one would realize these parts have issues. The lock actuator issue is the most concerning, especially when you have small children riding in these vehicles. What is it going to take for a recall to occur, someone dying? these parts(possibly chinese made)are failing left and right with replacement costs upwards of $300 or more. These parts are probably being replaced with different manufactured parts but owner would not know. The dealerships do not want to show you the defective parts. Is there a reason there is no recall in respect to the lock actuators?.

The passenger door would not lock or unlock, with the remote or by using the drivers door, nor would it lock when putting the vehicle into gear. This is the second time this has happened. So now if you think you are safe, your are not. They put onstar in your vehicle to keep you safe how does that help if you are hi-jacked at gun point? you thought all doors locked when you put it in gear all but the one door that failed because of a poor design. Or your child falls out of the vehicle while going down the freeway and because the lock failed due to poor design. Please help us with these poor designs on chevy vehicles. I have had nothing but problems with this vehicle. Clunking noises starting now when I turn corners. Dealership states that is normal. Omg! are they insane? I know that is not normal because it was making that noise when I purchased it. Everything starts going right at the time of the warranty ends. Poor window designs the windows are so loose they could possibly fall out when going down the highway.

I have taken my 2008 Tahoe ltz to the GMC dealership multiple times to repair the door locks / outer door handles. I have had two of the door locks replaced because they will not unlock when I hit the unlock button on the doors or the key fob. This is a major defect in this vehicle. It is a safety conern because I have a small child and I am afraid if I were to have an accident and I try to unlock the doors they will fail and I will be unable to get my child out without crawling over the front seats to manually unlock the lock. The same with the outer door handles breaking. I have had two of those replaced. I had to crawl over the passenger seat at one point to be able to get in the vehicle until I could get it to the dealership. I have searched the internet and see there are several complaints about these issues, yet there are no recalls. Please help us.

Failure of all four power door locks on my 2008 Tahoe. At almost exactly 3 years and 30,000 miles of ownership, the door locks of my, purchased new, 2008 Tahoe ltz began to fail. All four locks failed within 12 months of each other. The vehicle had less than 40,000 miles and four years of service at the last and final (4th) failure. Concern: (#1) there is only one manual keyed entry located on the vehicle which is the drivers door. In the event of an emergency and total electronic lock failure, the only passenger door access would be through the drivers door utilizing the key and manual lock/unlock feature. If the manual lock were to also fail, there would be no way to gain access to the vehicle through any of the four passenger doors. Restricted access to the vehicle could cost the life of a child, adult passenger or pet trapped in the vehicle. The system could be designed safer with a redundant manual lock located on another door. Additionally, the electronic locking mechanisms currently installed are inadequate and unsafe. The common failure of these systems eliminates the argument of electronic redundancy for the system since the installed product is faulty and unreliable. Why should we be forced to accept these unsafe products/designs on our vehicles? concern: (#2) the cost of replacing a lock has been quoted between $250 to $450 per lock from different facilities. The pricing may influence a generally safe mined person to postpone a repair which impacts the redundancy feature of the electronic system. Note: these locks typically begin to fail immediately after the warranty expires. And, gm corporation is unwilling to help with the cost and wasted time to deal with the issue. Further investigation by the NHTSA is warranted and I feel a recall should be mandated.

The contact owns a 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe. The contact stated that the driver and passenger side windows and door locks malfunctioned. The contact stated that she was unable to open or close the windows and the locks failed to unlock. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 60,000.

Continuously having to replace door handles on 2008 chevy Tahoe. Pinches my hand and causes brusing.

Door handles on my 2008 chevy Tahoe broke again for 3rd time. Chevy dealer notes its a issue but says its not covered under warranty since im over my mileage. Please help.

Driver's side door lock will not work unless I push it down manually. If you don't lock the door manually and press "lock" on the key fob - when you try to open the door the alarm goes off.

Driver's door and driver side rear locks failed. Neither door lock would operate manually or with key remote. Access in/out had to be from passenger side. This is the second occurance. First time repairs were in excess of $400, this time repairs for both doors are $580.

In April 2011, the front passenger door would periodically not lock unless I manually locked it. Eventually it would not lock automatically at any time. A couple of months later the front driver door began doing the same thing. The car was under warranty until August 2011 so we had the locks replaced by a Chevrolet dealership in July 2011. I was told this was a known problem. They refused to give me an extended warranty on the new front locks or the rear locks that were not replaced b/c at the time they were working. In February 2012 the rear driver side door will not unlock automatically. About a week later, the rear passenger side door began to occassionally stay locked. I consider this a very concerning safety issue b/c I can not open the door unless I manually unlock the door by either climbing through the other side-if it opens or through the front seat. In the event on an emergency and the door locks fail to unlock, I (or emergency response crews) would be unable to remove my infant son whose car seat is placed in the middle seat or my three year old daughter who is on the passenger side. It is an enormous hassle to climb over car seats or through the front to unlock doors, but more importantly I am very fearful of driving with the kids in the car in case I were unable to remove them from the car if we were in an accident, etc. I called the chevy dealership again and was once again told, it was a known problem and my car was now not under warranty so I would be responsible for payment. I explained I had the front door locks replaced in July and the person I spoke to said "if it is not broken, chevy will not fix it. " they have suggested I can request/apply for the gm assistance program. I feel very strongly that because it is a known problem and definitely a safety issue, there should be a recall or they should replace the locks at no cost.

The door lock actuators on my 2008 chevy Tahoe have been replaced 5 or 6 times, 2 or 3 the first time and 3 more the last time a few weeks ago all under warranty. The Tahoe has 33k miles on it this problem has occurred on every door at least once this is a safety concern and should be recalled immediately as sometimes the door will only work manually by actually pulling up the door button to open the door from the inside or out. In some cases the affected door does not lock when car is put in gear which can result in a child or an adult inadvertently pulling on the door handle while going down the highway and the door swinging open or in an emergency not being able to open the door without having to enter through another door chevy dealer suggested I get an extended warranty because after 36k miles it will cost $325 a door to fix the faulty actuators when they break again. This is the first time I have never had a vehicle with any kind of door lock issues and to have 5 or 6 problems within 3 years is a problem not to mention a huge saftey concern for drivers and passengers alike.

Doors will not all lock or unlock. Dealer said that lock actuators in each door need replacment.

Passenger lacerated right hand middle finger on sharp edge of peeling chrome on the top of the rf door handle. The rear doors exhibit some roughness of the chrome overlay indicating probable failure of the bonding on these as well. The drivers door handle was replaced the prior week at the owners expense for the same issue.

Drivers side door will intermittently not open from inside or outside. Must climb out other side door. This would be a death trap in an emergency.

Drivers door, front passenger, and driver side passenger doors do not lock or unlock using key less entry and driver side door lock button. 2008 Tahoe lt withonly 38k just out of warrantly.

The automatic door locks no longer work. When using the key fob to lock the doors, they do not go up or down. When placing the car in drive, the locks do not go down. When placing the car in park the locks do not go back up.

The safety equipment locks and actuator have started to fail one by one on my 2008 chevy Tahoe lt3. The first was covered by the warranty, but the last one was not. It appears this is a problem that gm has a problem with, but has failed to acknowledge.

2008 Chevrolet Tahoe door lock failure.

All four power door locks on my 2008 chevy Tahoe have had to be replaced. My passenger side door is being replaced for the 2nd time. I have a toddler who rides in the back and I depend on my doors to lock to prevent him from being able to open the door.

The electronic door locks on all 4 doors do not function on a 2008 chevy Tahoe. There are hundreds of complaints exactly like mine concerning the door locks, yet no recall has been initiated. Is it going to take not being able to unlock the rear doors to save a drowning kid before something is done? I have talked to a chevy technician and they are well aware of the faultiness of the actuators in the doors, but still quote me $1200 to fix all four locks.

Door locks on 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe no longer work. Locks do not move up or down when pressing the unlock/lock button on the key fob or the unlock/lock button on the door panel.

A few years ago all three door locks went at the same time on my 2008 Tahoe. I told my dealer this seems very unusual. Asked if there is a recall and he shrugged his shoulders. I am not sure of the exact date other than to tell you it was a few years ago. A few months ago left blinker wont work. Took to dealer again. Said to bring it back as they needed more time to work on it and think I needed an entire new fuse box. Saturday oct. 5, 2013 headlights came on while parked in parking lot. Next day it was totally dead. Tried charging it and headlights came on and would not shut off. Had to disconnect fuses and battery. Weird messages keep popping up on dashboard such as check tire pressure. It will say rear but actually it is the front. Sometimes it isn't any tire that is low. Called chevy customer service and asked why there is no recall and they said it is your responsibility to do so. I researched edmunds. Com and found 454 messages from people who have the same electrical problems. Chevy said to contact you.

On both my 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe and 2008 GMC yukon we have had 5 power door latches quit working leaving the doors unlocked or locked. I am concerned what could happen in the event of a crash.

2008 chevy Tahoe with 35,000 miles. The passenger side and the left back door locks will not lock or unlock automatically anymore. Big concern since I have small children in the back who could open the doors on their own. This is an expensive vehicle, this should not be happening.

The power door locks work intermittently in my 2008 chevy Tahoe. I have had the rear driver's side door looked at in the past at my local chevy dealer, and they were unable to find a problem. Recently my drivers side door will not lock or unlock using the key fob. The alarm is set and all other doors lock, except the driver's side door. I do not know how long this has been happening, as I usually trust that the door is locked when I push the button. Plus, I can hear the other doors lock and I have never had to visually or physically check that all doors are locked. Last year I had a similar problem when I would put the car in park with the engine running. The doors would unlock and then lock again. At one point I had actually gotten out of my car, shut my door, then the doors locked, and I was unable to open the rear drivers door to access my children. Thank goodness the drivers door did not lock. I was able to open the drivers door and manually unlock the rear drivers side door.

On my 2008 chevy Tahoe, the door lock actuator has been replaced 3 times, twice under warranty and once out of warranty. This has occurred on different doors, and currently the driver's door is not working. So this will be the 4th time to have one replaced and the vehicle only has 50k miles. This is a huge safety concern, and should be recalled immediately. We have an infant that rides in the back seat, and if the passenger doors were to quit working there would be a risk of getting him out in case of an emergency.

A few months ago, the drivers side door wouldn't unlock. If manually pulled up, wouldn't lock. Chevrolet fixed the problem. Now, a few months later, my other 3 doors are all the sudden not unlocking. If manually pulled up will not lock. Chevrolet says its the actuators(?) door locks. I have to wait a few days until they can squeeze the truck in to replace all three. . .