8.5
pretty badTypical Repair Cost:
no data
Average Mileage:
50,750 miles
Total Complaints:
4 complaints
Most common solutions:
- add a quart of oil every 2,000 miles (2 reports)
- go to dealer pitstops for a 1-2qts of oil every 1000m (1 reports)
- not sure (1 reports)
2009Jul 16
Tahoe LT 5.3L
- Automatic transmission
- 50,000 miles
I'm just another poor soul who spent $40000 for an oil sucking, mirror rattling PIECE. I've seen better quality on a Hyundai. Don't even get me started on the side molding that has stained and turned brown.
2010May 10
Tahoe LT V8 5.3L
- Automatic transmission
- 33,000 miles
I own, an am still paying for a 2007 Chevy Tahoe V8 5.3L. Has all the bells and whistles to keep the kids happy on long trips that we can no longer take, without a case of oil in the back. Oil consumption is unreal!!!!! I would really like to go public on this issue and a few more in regaurds to this unpredictable motor and a dealership who wants to keep us all in a vehicle that can possibly blow at anytime. I can understand adding oil on an older vehicle with 200,000 miles or more, but the old Suburban I traded in with 230,000m burned less than this new one and didn't cost me 40,000.00. I bought a new car for reliability and I do not feel that my 2007 Tahoe is reliable anymore. Cannot decide if I would stay with Chevy for a newer vehicle at this point.
How many other people are getting the run around from Chevy/GM? If this is normal to burn high amounts of oil, then why is this the only Chevy/GMC 5.3L motor that burns excessive oil?
My Husbands 2000 Duramax Dually that pulls en excess of 10000lbs all the time does not burn a drop of oil. Not to mention he has 180,000m on its motor!
Are there any problem like this with 2008 Chevys/GMC and newer?
2010Feb 10
Tahoe LS 5.3L
- Automatic transmission
- 70,000 miles
At 70000 miles check engine light came on. Bad oil sending switch. Then a warning light came on saying low oil pressure, shut off motor. Had oil sending switch replace. $480.00. Drove vehicle home and on way it the computer says shut down motor, low oil pressure. At this time the problem is unresolved. Now I have been advised that screens in oil system maybe plugged up. Another $500 day.
2011Jan 01
Tahoe LTZ V8
I AM DONE WITH CHEVROLET. I LOVE THE WAY MY TAHOE RIDES, AND EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT IT-HATE THE OIL ISSUE SO EARLY IN THE OWNERSHIP, AND I HATE THE SENSORS ON THE TIRE PRESSURE THAT IS ALWAYS ON.
THE DEALERSHIP, TUSCALOOSA CHEVROLET HAS BEEN SORRY IN THEIR HANDLING OF THE PROBLEM. THEY COULD HAVE FIXED IT WHILE IT WAS UNDER WARRANTY AND CHOSE NOT TO. THEY HAD ME WASTE DAYS BRINGING IT IN FOR "OIL CONSUMPTION" STUDIES. THEY ALSO MAY BE A LITTLE SHADY ON WARRANTY ISSUES. STATING THINGS HAVE BEEN DONE, THAT MIGHT NOT HAVE......ALL I CAN SAY FOR NOW. MAY HIRE AN ATTORNEY.
Sherry A.
Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
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