Five problems related to dashboard failed have been reported for the 2004 GMC Sierra. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
The speedometer,oil pressure gauge, alt meter, fuel gauge have all failed over the last several years. None of them read correctly.
On three separate occasions, my dash cluster in my 2004 GMC Sierra 1500 has gone out. The 1st time was only for about an hour, but the second time, it was out for over 2 weeks, I contacted a dealer, and they told me to check the fuses, which I did, but they were fine, after it came back on, I received a letter from gm stating that there was a problem with the clusters, but they were only covering them if the vehicle was still in warranty, well by this time, my vehicle was 800 miles out of warranty(but if I had known when it was out, I was still in warranty at that time), anyway, now the cluster is out for the third time, and gm refuses to fix the problem. I have spoke to them several times, and since I am out of warranty, they refuse to do anything, even after making me take it to a dealer to have it diagnosed, when they knew it was out of warranty. My owner's manual even states it is a safety issue to run the vehicle without a working cluster, and I would like gm to fix something that they know is bad, on multiple year vehicles.
Speedometer and oil gauge failure.
The 2004 GMC Sierra speedometer started acting stuck on mph when not driving then while driving it acted as if mph started on 0 but recorded as for example: 90mph. . . (it stuck on 30mph then when driving it recorded going 90mph when actually traveling 60mph) we took the truck in a few different times to be checked and the final conclusion was that the instrument cluster was bad and needed to be replaced. I have since learned that a large volume of trucks this year, make and model have had the same problem. I feel there should be some sort of recall on this and that gm needs to have this problem taken care of.
Gauges went out, should be a replace recall.