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I have a 2014 SIlverado LTZ Z71 5.3L that I have had for over a year with no issues. Yesterday I drove to work, parked it for about 10 hours, then got back in it and it would not start. It did the "clicking" noise when cranking, meaning the voltage on the battery was too low. I got a jump and drove home, dash gauge showing a little over 14 volts the whole way home - so alternator was working the entire time. I went to an autoparts store to have the battery tested in the vehicle. They said the battery was GOOD and just needed to be charged. I put a slow charger on it over night. This morning I checked the battery voltage and it was only 11 volts. The vehicle cranked slowly, but started. I shut it off and then after about 20 minutes I checked the battery voltage again - this time it was at 10.5 volts. I put a multimeter in series between the negative battery terminal and the negative battery cable. There was a 2.5 amp draw. I started unplugging fuses from the engine fuse block, but nothing lowered the amperage. Then all of a sudden (after about 5 minutes) the amperage slowly dropped down to 0.40 amps and stayed there. One time it dropped down to 0.0 amps random -- I didn't even do anything to cause this. It's very confusing. I noticed when I hit the "lock" or "unlock" button, the amperage draw jumps up to 6.5 amps (all of this is done with the dome light set to OFF) Also, the radio would keep turning on and off whenever I open the door. There would be a faint popping noise coming from the speakers when the screen would turn off/on - this was when the voltage of the battery was at 11 volts. Anyone know what could be the issue? -
My wife bought a 2019 Silverado high country, since day one vehicle had nothing but trouble, we went back to dealer next day after we bought the vehicle. Since then last 11 month we made 8 trips, sometime dealer find fault they changes part. Vehicle works fine for days to week or even a month then same issue, some time vehicle wont start, some multiple Error will pop up, some time vehicle will go to safety mode, some time vehicle will stop moving. There are time vehicle failed to restart after auto stop. I can list more other issue, dealer replaced battery twice, reprogram ECM and bunch of other thing. GM engineer is no help. GM not agree to repurchase truck back . Because of we couldn't rely on the vehicle we end buy another vehicle. one time we went trade in the vehicle to purchase a ford, unfortunately vehicle failed to start so ford dealer refuse the deal. I have tons of video of the failure. I want post those video to YouTube. My question to forum is, Does one knows good youtuber and critics who will be interested. Or I should go for legal action.
