2004 Chevrolet Tahoe

MY HUSBAND AND I OWN A 2004 CHEVROLET TAHOE WITH 30,000 MILES CURRENTLY ON IT. WE WERE DRIVING HOME FROM SUPPER LAST NIGHT WHEN OUR SPEEDOMETER QUIT WORKING. WE WERE DOING 65 MPH DOWN A LOCAL HIGHWAY WHEN MY HUSBAND LOOKED DOWN AT HIS SPEED AND THE SPEEDOMETER READ 35. WE STOPPED AT A RED LIGHT AND THE SPEED DROPPED TO 0. WHEN WE ACCELERATED, THE SPEED STAYED AT 0 WHEN WE WERE DOING AT LEAST 35. WE THEN PULLED OVER, TURNED THE CAR OFF, RECRANKED THE CAR AND THEN BEGAN DRIVING. STILL NOTHING. I HAVE TO SAY THAT THIS IS DEFINITELY IMPACTING OUR SAFETY. WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW FAST WE'RE DRIVING. I GOOGLED THE PROBLEM AND FOUND AROUND 100 OTHER GMC/GM CAR OWNERS WITH THE SAME PROBLEM. THEY ARE STATING IT COSTS BETWEEN $500 AND $700 TO REPAIR THE PROBLEM AND MANY TIMES THE PROBLEM STILL EXISTS AFTER THE REPAIRS. WE HAVE NOT CONTACTED OUR LOCAL DEALER BECAUSE IT IS THE WEEKEND. WE PLAN TO CALL ON MONDAY MORNING TO FIND OUT THE COST TO FIX THE PROBLEM. *NM

I DRIVE A 2004 TAHOE LS. I AM A SALESMAN AND DRIVE QUITE A BIT AND HAVE RACKED UP AROUND 95,000 MILES TO THIS DAY. WHILE DRIVING, ABOUT A YEAR AGO, I NOTICED MY SPEEDOMETER ACTING ERRATICALLY. THE NEEDLE WOULD JUMP OR LURCH PAST EACH NUMBER AS IT ASCENDED THROUGH THE NUMBERS ON THE SPEEDOMETER. IT WAS MORE NOTICEABLE IN THE 55 TO 75MPH RANGE. THE SPEED WAS STILL ACCURATE SO I VIEWED IT AS A NON-ISSUE. HOWEVER, AS TIME WENT ON THE ACCURACY BEGAN TO DEGRADE AS I STARTED NOTICING THE SPEEDOMETER WOULD STOP AT 40 MPH WHILE I WAS DRIVING HIGHWAY SPEEDS. THE DEGRADATION HAS CONTINUED UP TO NOW WHERE I AM LUCKY IF THE NEEDLE EVEN MOVES OFF OF 0 MPH. WHEN THE NEEDLE DOES MOVE IT FREEZES AT ABOUT 15 MPH FORCING ME TO GUESS AT MY SPEED BY MONITORING THE TACHOMETER. THIS IS A PRETTY DANGEROUS SITUATION AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASSUME GM WOULD LOOK TO REMEDY THIS SITUATION QUICKLY. THE ALTERNATIVE IS FOR THE CONSUMER TO FOOT THE BILL OF A $500-$1100 REPAIR COST FOR A MANUFACTURER'S DEFECT AS MANY DEALERS ALREADY KNOW THAT THE "CLUSTER NEEDS TO BE REPLACED". THIS IS A WELL-DOCUMENTED ISSUE FOR GMS BUILT IN THE 2003 TO 2005 MODEL YEARS WHICH WE, AS CONSUMERS WHO HAVE ALREADY INVESTED AT LEAST $40,000 ON THESE VEHICLES, NEED TO SEE REMEDIED. P.S. THE 07 FORD EXPEDITION AND EXPEDITION EL APPEAR TO BE VERY NICE

OUR TAHOE HAS 46295 MILES ON IT. LAST WEEK, THE SPEEDOMETER BECAME ERRATIC. IT SOMETIMES WORKS, BUT OFTEN SHOWS SPEEDS OF 50-80 MPH WHILE THE TRUCK IS IN IDLE, AND MUCH HIGHER WHEN THE TRUCK IS MOVING. AFTER TALKING WITH MANY DEALERS, REPAIR SHOPS AND OTHER GM DRIVERS, THIS IS APPARENTLY A COMMON PROBLEM THAT HAS NOT BEEN ADDRESSED BY GM. APPARENTLY, THE ISSUE IS WITH THE INSTRUMENT CONSOLE, AND OTHER GAUGES MAY OR MAY NOT BE WORKING AS WELL. THIS IS BOTH A SAFETY CONCERN AND A VEHICLE CONCERN, AS I MAY NOT KNOW MY CORRECT SPEED, LEVEL OF GAS, ETC. *NM