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2001 Chevrolet Silverado 3500 engine and engine cooling problems

17 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the engine and engine cooling on the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 350024% of all complaints for this model year.

17
Engine and Engine Cooling complaints
24%
share of all complaints
68,000 mi
median reported incident mileage
1 / 1
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • Vehicle stalling intermittently at all speeds. Sometimes less than 40 mph, sometimes at freeway speeds in excess of 65 mph. Restarts after several minutes. Each time it stalls the time before it restarts increases. *tr

    filed Mar 17, 2011

  • We have a 2001 silverado 3500 that shut down in the middle of baltimore traffic back in 2006. We had to have it towed and paid $644.33 to have it fixed. It was the crank position sensor. We came to find out that there was a recall on this in some of the 2001's. But guess what, ours is no on the…

    filed Jan 11, 2011

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Related service bulletins

  • This bulletin advises the technician of possible location of an internal coolant leak from a specific cylinder head and location.

    06-06-01-019C · Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions · issued Mar 14, 2024
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Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.