2007 Chev Silverado....Any problems? - Page 2

had mine for about 5 months (5k milles) just had it in the shop today, had a problem after stopping sometimes it'd lunge forward, turns out the driveshaft slip yolk needed lube, and the front of my bucket seat upholstery had come off (and i could get it to stay on) also, $75 for a spare key, my 04's spare was free, and if you guys only need a spare in case you lock you keys in your truck (IE: you DONT need it to start the engine, only unlock the door) just have a spare key cut and dont get it programmed (still $45), my black cloth interior also seems to collect lint, but no stains yet. the lowest mpg ive managed to get is 15.5 city (average is 16.5) and i had 24 highway on a 300 mile trip cruising at around 75 with cruise control, also the only other thing, i have WT no chrome front bumper (basic black paint no clear or anything) and it gets wrecked from pebbles on highway, i had to buy a bottle of touch up just for the bumper
 
5.3 (not flexfuel as i heard those get terrible mileage) reg cab 6.5" bed, everything stock

Hey everyone, I now have over 3,500 miles on my 07  and I just had my fifth wheel hitch installed. KICK THE TIRES AND LIGHT THE FIRES! I am hooking it up for it's first time out towing in three days. I will let you know how well it performs with 16,000 lbs of trailer behind it. Everything thing else has been doing fine. No complaints here at all with mine.

I have a NBS LTZ Z71 4X4 1500 Silverado crew cab with the 364 ci, 6.0, and have to say Chevy finally got it right this time. I have had Chevy pick ups for 30+  years, the first being a 1949 fleet side, and the one before this one a 2000 extend 4 door cab, half ton. Already put on 8,000 miles and have not had any problems at all. The 367 horses kick in when I need them and the brakes are the best ever. Sorry for the love story, my wife told me she was going to put a blanket and pillow in the trucks bad so I can sleep with my truck . I put a Bak Flip bed tonneau cover on it and that helped the gas mileage, about 10-12 miles per gallon more, and put flat chrome steppers on , held on by 4 heavy duty brackets,put on a hood wind deflector and that helped with the gas mileage as well ,1-2 miles , next step will be the True Flow XDI air flow system, should give me another 17-25 hp gain and about 8 miles more per gallon. Any  thoughts about dual exhausts,will they help in performance and gas mileage? My way of thinking is gain performance and mileage per gallon.  

I just had to pay 112 dollars for an interior detailing. Chevy said they get lots of complaints but are not going to do anything about it. I have had 9 trucks so far, all working the life of a farm truck, and this is the first time I have ever HAD to pay for the interior to get cleaned. I just could not do it and get it clean on my own.

Other than this, and the paint chipping off, I really like this truck. The mileage is excellent and the ride is top notch.

have about 1,500 miles in my crew cab 4.8 chevy. drives great! brakes excellent! seat get lint! mileage is ok, but what do you expect for a truck! i am averaging about 19 on highway and 14 in city, but only has 1,500 miles. it could only get better! i hope!

OKAY HERE GOES! I finally broke down and laid out my hard earned cash for a NBS 2007 Silverado Ext Cab 6.0 with Max Trailering LTZ with almost all the bells and whistles. As far as likely all the bells and whistles....love them. As for the trucks performance!!! SUCKS!!!!! The active fuel management is the biggest ripoff ever...EVER! It makes driving the truck suck....and I mean SUCK! tug and pull, tug and pull, tug and pull!! I seems like an overdrive tranny when its about to go out. HATE HATE HATE IT! AS for the 6.0 liter...IDLE MISS!!!! There is a subtle but distinctive miss at idle. The chev serv manager says its due to lean mix that Chevy programmed it for to meet regulations...BS!!!!! There is something else wrong and I can tell! Today while driving uphill aprox 35-40 mph there was a DISTINCTIVE tugging surging feel to the truck...maybe tied to the rough idle crap! I hear alot of owners are experiencing this same scenario...I went to another dealer and they are going to look the truck over. They did review service bulliten and there seems to be the possibilty that the 6.0 liters have a bad spark setup in one or more of the cylinders. That might be the problem...but heres my problem...how can chevrolet miss these items?? Idle misses and surging problems are very easy to detect!!! I would assume there is some sort of quality control in place at their factories?? Or do they say good enough...SHIP IT!  Well as for me, they will keep geting the truck back until they FIX IT! I spent around 40k with tax and get a piece of crap! Oh yeah, almost forgot, downshifting takes for ever to kick in and acceleration seems very very hesitant...another problem! The driveabilty of this truck is the worst I have ever experienced. BAD BAD BAD! I will not recommend this truck to anyone! Do keep that in mind when you are deciding to buy one...just my opinion and experience!

I just purchased a 2007 2WD Crew Cab Silverado LS with the 4.8, the only real complaint I have, is the same as every on else. The interior coverings collect alot of dirt and lint. I went and bought a scotch guard kit and some descent seat covers, that was the only thing I could do to reduce the lint and dirt. I also think from the ride the factory tires are pretty much crap. I only  have 300 miles on mine so far, other than those minor things, I love the truck.

I'm new here so let me throw this one out. 
 
Just purchased a NBS '07 LT2 crew cab 2wd.  It has under 1500 miles on it so far.  Has anyone had any electrical problems?  Last week, while driving at night on the interstate, I pulled back on the turn signal stalk (flash to pass), and the thing went totally haywire.  The cruise kicked off, all of the dash idiot lights went on, the speedo and tach went up and down, and the radio made a high pitched squeal.
 
I pulled over and shut the truck off, sat for about 5 seconds, re-started the truck and went along my way.  I haven't been able to duplicate this problem again and haven't taken it in to the dealership.
 
Any thoughts?  Faulty ground connection?

Ours is a 07 NBS.  My wife came in yesterday and said, she had used the turn signal and the windshield washers came on, without touching the washer paddle on the stalk.

This morning, it wouldn't start!  Cranked slowly like the battery was about dead.  Started fine after the third try though.  It is going into the dealership tomorrow morning.  My hope is that there is a faulty ground connection somewhere they can easily locate.
 
I'm starting to get a bad feeling...

I tried to repeat the problem with nothing happening.  I think she bumped the washer paddle.   I hope your's is nothing serious. 

I've had my 07 5.3L crew cab for about a month, and while I'm very happy overall, I've noticed a few glitches along the way:
 
1. Like everyone else has said, the seats attract every speck of lint within a mile of the truck. It's especially bad when you have black on black like mine.
2. I once had the DIC displaying a message that the Stabilitrak was turned off and I needed to bring the truck in for servicing. It's happened only once (so far), so I haven't brought it to the dealer (why bother if I can't replicate the problem?)
3. In the last week or so I've noticed a high pitched "humming" or "harmonic" noise. It seems to be coming from the front end of the truck, but I can't be sure. There also is an occasional buzzing noise that seems to be coming from the Bose speakers. Other than these items, it seems to be a great truck. I tend to drive my vehicles until it no longer pays to have them repaired, so I'm hoping to have this one a good long time.
 

I am trying to figure out why the passenger mirror was not engineered as a automatic night time dimming.
 
It is kind of annoying having two auto-dims and a regular one.



 

Just an update on my truck.  Seems like the dealer never reconnected the battery correctly after having it on display (like not tightening the positive terminal)!  Easy fix and I'm glad that was all it was.
 
I do agree with everyone else regarding the weak paint.  I've already had to get a touch up bottle for a few rock chips; and this from 1400 mostly in-town pavement driving miles.  With the dark paint, the chips show up easily.  I was holding off, but maybe I should get a bug deflector on it soon.

Here again with the idle and surging/tugging problem. Took to dealer and was told the subtle rough idle is allowable tolerance from cherolet. It is inherent with the 6.0 liter motors due to their horsepower. NO FIX. As for the surging /tugging feel and shifting not really being on, it seems...these models of trucks are SMART. Here is what they stated on work form:

DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME ON TRUCK TO BE BROKEN IN AND THE FUEL TRIM CELLS LEARNED. 

I was told that these trucks adjust over a period of time and learn your drivoing habits then they make the appropriate adjustments. My truck has 2500 miles and it still isnt learned? If this is true then fine...even though it really sucks to drive ut when it drives the way it does...especially for another aprox 5000 miles as i was told it might take....HUM??? Has ANYONE heard this before???? I am a bit miffed about this learning thing. Well anyway sure glad I have an extended warranty as they are going to see alot of me if it continues after another 5000 miles!!!!

If ANYONE has a similar experience PLEASE let me know. I am arming myself with information that I will take to Chevrolet if need be.

Thanks

I have about 7000KMS (4500mi?)  on mine, and the transmission seems to be shifting alot better lately.  Mabe I am just crazy and I dont know what I am talking about?  Doesnt seem to shift so abruptly and at odd times.   Maybe they do take a long time to "learn "

All you guys pissing and moaning about your new trucks makes me want to keep my 03'LT EXT-CAB for a little longer. I guess I've been very lucky but I have had zero problems since day one. Sure I do the regular maintenance oil changes, lube and so on but I've never had it in the shop for repairs of any kind. Rocky sleeps in the garage and I keep him spotless so maybe that's it. Either way this has been the best and most reliable vehicle I have ever owned. All you guys with the new trucks get the bugs worked out because I may want to buy one in a couple of years. I tell everybody I've got a Chevy Truck built Ford tough.      

I had a 2003 with Quadra Steer and liked it so much I had a hard time trading it in.  And like you trouble free, except for a reprograming of the computer, call back.  I usually trade every two years.  But the new one, a LTZ with the 6.0 is much better, except I miss the Quadra Steer.
I have heard the that some of the trucks do learn your driving habits, but I thought it was only the Allision Tranmissions.

I own a 2007 ext cab 4x2 flexfuel LTZ in Brazil ,runs on 100% ethanol ,no problems at all ,just the front driver's door panel speakers that rattles ....This is the only complaint!!! Is there any way to fix the door panel rattle?

This is Blue and I just received my tail light covers, chromed, and WOW!!!! what a difference. If anyone with the 2007 nbs Silverado has been looking for tail light protectors go to premiermotoring.net, part number 132484, this is the only place I was able to find any thing worth putting on. A solution to some of you with a lint problem, I have used Scotch Guard, spray on, and it helped a lot, although I used it on a car, my truck has leather. To get the lint off your seats you can use a lint remover roller, Walgreens, Target, etc, its like a paint roller with sticky paper, just roll it up and down your seats.

Gman, when I drive my "old" 2005 at work, I get a bit nastalgic. The are damn nice trucks and I wouldn't be in any hurry to trade if I were you. I brought our 2002 home the other night due to a larger load to haul and really enjoyed driving it as well. I would have no problem going back to the old trucks. I am now used to the new dial locations, so it takes a few miles to readjust my thinking.

My major issues so far has been paint that loves to chip and seats that love lint.  The first time I drove on the interstate, there were 8 chips on the hood.  There are also dozens behind each tire, which the dealership has nonw given me mudflaps to prevent.  I also have an issue with the sheet metal thickness.  I dented my truck leaning on it to wash the windows at the gas station (and I'm a lightweight).  There's also a ding in the door and a ton of dings on top of the bed.  With all the dents and chips and scratches, my 6 month old Silverado is in worse shape than the six year old F150 I traded in for it.  So much for my attempts to baby my vehicle!

After rotating my tires, I tried making the truck relearn the tires.  It won't recognize the tires no matter how many times I try and how much tire pressure changes.  Another trip to the dealership is warranted.

Other things:
I also think the instrument displays are extremely hard to see at dusk. 

Accelerating from a complete stop isn't too bad but rolling acceleration is very poor.  Lots of growl but no bite.  I hoped for a lo more from the 5.3 w/ 3.73.

There was an extreme amount of metal shavings on the drain plug on my first oil change.  I'm hoping it was left from production and all came out on that first oil change. 

The metal thickness has been the same since 1999. You just have longer panels and not enough support behind the panels.  As far as the paint is concerned, factory paint jobs are just getting worse and worse.

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  As far as the paint is concerned, factory paint jobs are just getting worse and worse.

I have heard alot of this has to do with EPA regulations on paints.  BUt then again it may be a myth