Table 1 shows one common unknown or other related problems of the 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer.
| Problem Category | Number of Problems |
|---|---|
| Unknown Or Other problems |
Love the vehicle except the fact all my gauges stick. . . . Gm had told me this has to be safety issue in order to be recalled. . . I'm pretty sure not knowing how fast I am going on the highway is a saftey issue. . . Especially with little children in the car. This is unacceptable. I refuse to pay for a defect that is happening in many gm vehicles. . . If I can find all the complaints I'm sure gm can as well. How do we get gm to fix these problems and try to keep customers????.
Abs kicks in at low stopping speed between 5 to 10 mph.
This vehicle had been been parked in the driveway from 7:45 pm, (August 10, 2011). I was awakened at approx. 3:55 am on 8-10-2011 by hearing a muffled boom. At 4:00 am (Aug. 11, 2011) I heard a loud bang type noise. I immediately got up and went to investigate. I went outside and found my 2004 Trailblazer (ext) on fire from the engine bay and just beginning to flame inside the vehicle's passenger compartment at the dashboard. . It only took minutes before the vehicle was fully involved. The fire began in the engine bay. The fire marshall report is still pending and I was informed it would take 6 to 8 weeks before it was available. Approx. Two to three months prior, I took the vehicle to a repair garage to fix the low beam headlights (they had failed and changing the bulbs was no help. It turned out that it was a failed relay, which was replaced. It was a couple of weeks later that I had to replace the vehicle's battery as it had gone dead and would not take a charge. The old battery was about three years old. There were no other battery/headlight issues after these repairs. No tools or other parts were dropped into the engine bay, or left in the bay. I was an aircraft mechanic and old habits of keeping rack of my tools never die and all tools used were accounted for. The roads were dry where it was driven there was no rain at the house all night. I reported this to Chevrolet that day. As a result of the fire, the eaves of the house over the garage caught fire, my wife, son and myself had minor carbon monoxide poisoning, my work truck was damaged by the heat of the fire, so I cannot work (self employed) until I get a replacement (no rental company will let me use a truck to work from as I need to carry large quantities of chlorine in my pressure cleaning business. There have been no other problems of this kind before with this vehicle.
Speedometer goes erratic. When idling at stop speedometer is sitting at approx 90 to 110 mph and when moving from a stop continues to the 6:00 position.
I started the car first thing in the morning and noticed as I backed out of the garage that my speedometer wasn't working. As I drove down my street, I watched it, and it never moved. The needle was not pointing straight down, but was significantly below 0. Later the same day, it began working again, though the needle movement was jerky. Two days later, it stopped again and has not worked since. I contacted gm and they said there isn't an active recall on this problem, even though they have recalled practically every other SUV they made that year for a problem with the instrument panel. This is more than an annoyance, it's a safety hazard, and I think gm should step up and repair the problem, especially since a cursory google search turns up many, many other Trailblazer owners with the same issue. I would appreciate any help the NHTSA could offer.
Driving home on the interstate the speedometer on our 2004 chevy Trailblazer suddenly started to climb and then decend done to well below -0 mph and stayed there even though we were traveling at 75 mph. The speedometer is currently frozen at about 20 mhp making it impossible to determine how fast we're traveling. Dealer quoted repairs at appx $800.
Gas gauge jumps around. . . Especially when fuel is low. Sometimes at it's lowest, it will show half a tank. Now that my wife drives this SUV with my 7-month old son, it is particularly worrisome.
Dashboard gauges on our 2004 Trailblazer have been failing one by one. No gauges except the speedometer have been operable for many months. Now, on Friday 11/11/11, the speedometer stopped working! this is a serious problem. I believe it must be caused by the same issues as the identical well-publicized problems on other Trailblazers. In addition, some of the dashboard lights (seatbelt light, etc. ) ramain on almost all the time. Chevrolet should be reponsible for immediate repairs at no cost to us, the owner. Thank you.
Not sure what to file this under, so I put it under unknown and other. About 4 months ago my service engine soon light came on. It stayed on for a few days then went off, a few days later it was back on, then a few days later went off, then it came on for a longer period of time and do the same thing, eventually it stayed on. Took it to the chevy dealership where I bought it and they said the gas tank had a crack in it and needed to be replaced. Said it was probably from the gas nozzle hitting the tank when filling it up. Don't see how that is possible, when it is only me or my husband filling it up & how hard would you have to hit it for it to crack? had it replaced the next month. Now the service engine soon light is doing the same thing. Haven't taken it back in yet.
Speedometer was reading 90mph on a trip and cars were passing me, when I stopped the speedometer read 35mph standing still. It did this for about 3 days, then went back to normal. The other day coming home from a trip it seemed like it was acting up again, but my husband was driving, he thought it was acting up too. It is back to normal, haven't done anything about it.
When I first purchased this vehicle I thought I had a great SUV. Little did I know that within the first month of owning it did I make a huge mistake. I am a single mother of 2 kids. I checked out the crash ratings and they were great!! I liked everything about my tb. Looking back, after the 4th problem within that first month. I should have ran away screaming from it, as I do now daily. The lights flicker when you drive at night. The headlights constantly go out. The check gauges light is constantly coming on. The oil pressure gauge drops for no apparent reason. The tach goes crazy. The "bell" for the lights (when you have the keys out and the lights are still on, or when you have the keys in and the drivers door open) works when it wants to. The battery guage works when it feels like it. The gas guage hasn't had a problem lately. I am wondering. . . Doesn't all of that constitue as a safety problem?? I have had the lights looked at and am told there isn't anything that can be done. . Really?? I am going to have to have the guages looked at now and from what I see it will cost about $600-$800. Where other chevy vehicles have had this covered under a recall. There are many other problems I've had, the O2 sensor, temp guage, other lighing issues that I have taken care of but this is getting to be a bit much. I see many others have had this problem. It can't be from normal wear on the vehicle. Please do something about this before someones family really gets hurt, if they haven't already.
Faulty speedometer and gas gauge on 2004 cheverolet Trailblazer.
1. Normal driving. 2. The rpm gage works irratically and is never accurate. 3. We could not find a replacement part and it has not been fixed.
Product defect.
1. Normal driving, 2. The cd player will not eject the cd, 3. Attempted to get it out and then researched for how to's and found it was impossible to fix without getting a new stereo.
The speedomoter quit working and over the next year all the gages have stoped working and I have been told the insturment panal needs to be replaced. I feel this is a safty issue that needs to be recalled as do alot of other people. I contacted gm and have received no help.
The speedometer quit reading correctly. At some times it would read 100 mph when doing 30 mph. It then worsened to the point where it is at now. The speedometer does not work at all. The tachometer has malfunctioned the same way as well. This has to be a safety issue since the driver has no way of truly knowing how fast they are driving. I have contacted Chevrolet about this issue, and they refuse to see that thousands of these vehicles are having the same problem. There should be a safety recall now.
Spedometer, tachometer not working and have not been for over 1 yr. Other gauges work when they want to. Will cost too much to take to dealer to get fixed and have heard that there are lots of other vehicles same yr having same issues. They should do a recall on these to fix.
In 2008, one day I started my vehicle and noticed the oil gauge indicator did not register. That day I continued driving without the gauge operating. Later that week I took it a mechanic, who instructed me to take it to the dealer. He suspected that it was the instrument panel. I did not take it to the dealer, because it was not major. However, in later months the tachometer failed. In 2010 I did some research on the instrument panel on the chevy Trailblazer and found many accounts of failure by others. I also want to mention that the gas gauge has failed on occasion. Currently, my tachometer and oil gauge does not work. I along with other drivers want Chevrolet to take responsibility for the failure of their product, which they know does not operate as it should.
My 2004 Trailblazer spare tire winch would not crank my tire all the way down I was on the side of the expressway and could not remove my tire so that I could change it.
Wench holding spare tire on 2002 chevy Trailblazer was stuck and would not lower the tire. Having a flat tire is bad enough but being told that they would have to cut and destroy the wench mechanism in order get the spare to put it on in place of the flat one was not good news. I told aaa to proceed and cut the cable and mechanism so they could change my flat tire. I found this is not under warranty and it cost $137. 00 to replace the wench. This happened in August 2006/ in October, my wife had a flat and guess what the wench would not lower the spare and again the mechanism had to be replaced. I put my spare on my wife's 2004 chevy Trailblazer so she could continue her trip to iowa. Her wench was replaced at a cost $143. 00. Obviously this is a problem with chevy Trailblazers as it happened with my 2002 and my wife's 2004. There is never a mention in the owner's manual about any maintenance on the wench. To find the problem when you have a flat is not the right time tom discover the wench doesn't work. I filed a complaint with general motors on Monday of this week and was told that all complaints are reviewed by supervisors. I simply replied that it was highly unlikely that I would ever hear from anyone at gm about this problem.
While driving at 70 mph, the consumer pulled to the right to avoid hitting another motorist. The consumer over corrected the vehicle, which resulted in the consumer losing control of the truck. The truck went through 2 ditches and a service road before stopping. The truck went airborne. The driver sustained back injuries and the passenger sustained injuries to his/her side and knees. The console between the seats came loose and hit the passenger in the side. The vehicle was totaled.