2019 Chevy Silverado needs $4,000 in repairs

Fiat is shit and always has been. I had one way back during the gas crisis and it would have been cheaper to drive a 4X4 Ford with a 460..

Damned thing froze up and kinda mated with the ground one morning and I stripped out the clutch and transmission just trying to get it to move, and even the motor was shot.

What a piece of shit that was.

TOTAL GARBAGE

Just bought the truck in November 2019.

It was brand new when I bought it, it is a work truck at only 70,000 miles it broke down on the highway it is less then two years old and cost $32,000 brand new, I still owe $29,000 on it, and the payments are $600 a month.

What would you all do?

The original estimate was $995 and they still have not repaired it my business has lost two weeks worth of work. WHen we had old 1994 Ford Cargo vans we didn't have $1500 in repair bills total, I also just put new tires on it.

The dealer told me Friday when I was supposed to pick up my repaired truck for $995 that it would be an extra $1000 now the bill is at $4,000.

Isn't this bait and switch and the dealer in Eden Prairie MN is beyond rude and claims this is our responsibility, refuses to help so does corporate.

Buyers be warned...

it's a POS!

i rebuild GM transmissions. You need something with a 4l80e in it. Older is better!

Anything new is a shitbox!

TRADE IT FOR RELIABILITY!

Never buy a new vehicle. Dumbest move anyone can make.

Lifters and cam shaft at 70k

Just not possible

Perhaps a disgruntled employee??

Sounds like break fluid dumped in the oil to me

Definitely sabotage in some way

Good luck op

First off... The car is 2 years old, you've put almost 6 years worth of mileage on it, and you've somehow only paid down $3000 on the vehicle loan? Where did the other 8-10k in payments go?

Secondly... Where is the bait and switch? They offered a $995 estimate (key word here is estimate) and it ended up costing more. That is the way estimates go sometimes and is definitely not a bait and switch.

The repairs are 100% your responsibility, as I am positive that the warranty on the parts that broke is long gone at 70k miles. They were probably wear items anyways.

Something tells me this work truck has been worked hard.

What would I do? Well it's simple. Fix the truck if it is holding up business. To be sitting on this trying to weasel your way out is costing you even more money.

Nope - it is a problem with the cam and lifters. Especially, in the older models that first had the V4/V8 disabling of 4 cylinders. Head gaskets were also going out because of the temperature difference in active verses inactive cylinders. I found many complaints online. I wish I would have known before buying my 2018 Silverado. I planned to buy a Tundra but changed my mind and bought my first Chevy in forty so years. I am retired and don't drive many miles so my extended warranty will probably expire because issues surface.

I'm going to guess it has cylinder de-activation? Sounds like an injury caused by that horrid "feature"?

Bought a new vehicle in July 2020, have put on 11k miles with zero issues, only been in the shop for the regular oil change.

Oh and it's worth 20% more now than when I bought it.

So tell me, how was this the dumbest move I could make?

Attention assholes: Chevrolet is still the greatest brand worldwide, you are speaking to your own void when you fail to acknowledge this.
Any brand can be shat upon by engineers, wake the fuck up, the greatest engineering of trucks has been done 25 years ago.

Just bought the truck in November 2019.

It was brand new when I bought it, it is a work truck at only 70,000 miles it broke down on the highway it is less then two years old and cost $32,000 brand new, I still owe $29,000 on it, and the payments are $600 a month.

What would you all do?

The original estimate was $995 and they still have not repaired it my business has lost two weeks worth of work. WHen we had old 1994 Ford Cargo vans we didn't have $1500 in repair bills total, I also just put new tires on it.

The dealer told me Friday when I was supposed to pick up my repaired truck for $995 that it would be an extra $1000 now the bill is at $4,000.

Isn't this bait and switch and the dealer in Eden Prairie MN is beyond rude and claims this is our responsibility, refuses to help so does corporate.

Buyers be warned...

Fiat is shit and always has been. I had one way back during the gas crisis and it would have been cheaper to drive a 4X4 Ford with a 460..

Damned thing froze up and kinda mated with the ground one morning and I stripped out the clutch and transmission just trying to get it to move, and even the motor was shot.

What a piece of shit that was.

TOTAL GARBAGE

Nope - it is a problem with the cam and lifters. Especially, in the older models that first had the V4/V8 disabling of 4 cylinders. Head gaskets were also going out because of the temperature difference in active verses inactive cylinders. I found many complaints online. I wish I would have known before buying my 2018 Silverado. I planned to buy a Tundra but changed my mind and bought my first Chevy in forty so years. I am retired and don't drive many miles so my extended warranty will probably expire because issues surface.

First off... The car is 2 years old, you've put almost 6 years worth of mileage on it, and you've somehow only paid down $3000 on the vehicle loan? Where did the other 8-10k in payments go?

Secondly... Where is the bait and switch? They offered a $995 estimate (key word here is estimate) and it ended up costing more. That is the way estimates go sometimes and is definitely not a bait and switch.

The repairs are 100% your responsibility, as I am positive that the warranty on the parts that broke is long gone at 70k miles. They were probably wear items anyways.

Something tells me this work truck has been worked hard.

What would I do? Well it's simple. Fix the truck if it is holding up business. To be sitting on this trying to weasel your way out is costing you even more money.

I bought mine used 5 years ago and it has had zero failuers and 3 sets of evenly worn tires since. The foreign Fiats are awesome.

My Fiat (for foreign markets, not the U.S. market) is 13 years old and the AC, stock CD player, electric locks, electric mirrors electric windows, EVERYTHING still work and were never repaired. 3 timing belts (none broke) 3 water pumps (replaced with timing belt) and 3 sets of tires, ZERO FAILURES. It looks like crap but functions like new.

A lot of Americans want to buy American and I can understand that but with globalization your loyalty is pretty useless. GM is a global corporation no different than Toyota.

For instance the Toyota Tundra is made a few miles from the Mexican border in Texas by Mexican laborers Toyota "imported" to the USA to keep the UAW union out of the plant.
. Go to that factory and the offical language is SPANISH.

The Nissan Titan is made in Mississippi by good 'ole boys that run trotlines and hunt hogs on their days off, that why I bought a Titan

I wouldn't touch a Ford,Chevvy,or any Chinese, or Korean Car with with a shitty stick.

Hence why I drive an Audi.(German)

With age comes wisdom.

Sure they are very expensive. My nearly new diesel Q5 cost me £30,000 $42,000 US

But they go on ,and on, and on. Will still be on the road in another 10 years.

Find any of the above listed makes not knocking their arse out,or rotting away at 90,000 miles.

I bought mine used 5 years ago and it has had zero failuers and 3 sets of evenly worn tires since. The foreign Fiats are awesome.

Thank you! :) Evidently this is a common problem in these brand new chevy silverados- we found that out when we were researching how to fix it on youtube, it seems do able to fix yourself it may take an entire week but fixable, it is just HORRIFIC the way Chevy corporate is not getting back to us, some lady named Jacqueline never returns calls, and the dealer says it's our responbility online in their own review they clearly don't care about their customers.

And the extended warranty guy- we can fix it, we are out loss of work and emberassment and strongly think others should know not everyone can take a $4,179 dollar hit plus another $179 towing bill on a their new truck. This may put many people out of business. Imagine if we had bought a fleet of these and had to pay employees to sit on their ass and wait for them to "repair" them. it could be way worse.

My neighbor who is an race engineer for Polaris takes very good care of his cars. He has too very fancy Audis sitting in his driveway with timing belts or could be chains (I don't drive Audis) that broke and destroyed his interference engines. He knows better than to not change a timing belt.

He might disagree with the engineering.

My neighbor who is an race engineer for Polaris

Just bought the truck in November 2019.

It was brand new when I bought it, it is a work truck at only 70,000 miles it broke down on the highway it is less then two years old and cost $32,000 brand new, I still owe $29,000 on it, and the payments are $600 a month.

What would you all do?

The original estimate was $995 and they still have not repaired it my business has lost two weeks worth of work. WHen we had old 1994 Ford Cargo vans we didn't have $1500 in repair bills total, I also just put new tires on it.

The dealer told me Friday when I was supposed to pick up my repaired truck for $995 that it would be an extra $1000 now the bill is at $4,000.

Isn't this bait and switch and the dealer in Eden Prairie MN is beyond rude and claims this is our responsibility, refuses to help so does corporate.

Buyers be warned...

Those things have never worked. Cadillac had it way back in the 70's and everyone disabled it. One of the complaints was that in the city it got worst mileage than one without it and of course the other was engine breakdowns.

Blame the Fed's for impossible fuel efficiency goals.

This is why I own and drive Toyotas, I never had a serious mechanical problem in 25years now ..my taco has 205k ..no problems so far ..fingers crossed