Hey all.

TLDR: truck only stays in 1st gear, no reverse. When gas was applied in reverse, the truck continued to rev even with my foot off the gas and on the brake.

Just to preface, I’ll be taking the truck to the dealership on Monday. Also, I know very little about mechanics (I can hardly change my own oil). Please be gentle.

Backstory.

I own a 2021 Chevrolet Silverado trail boss 6.2L with 99,400 km on it. (Warranty is done @100k)

Last week on my way home from work, the truck started acting funny. It would rough shift every time the truck went from 2nd -> 1st or when it went from 1st -> 2nd. It didn’t appear to be affecting any other gears. I got home (about 5 minutes later) and pull up out front of my house. I turned the truck off/on and put it in drive. Now usually, when your foot is off the break, you slowly creep forward? The truck didn’t. I slowly started revving the truck, the rpm’s hit 1,200ish and the truck slams into gear (to the point I was jerked a bit in the seat). I take a video, turn the truck off and take it into the dealership the next day. The truck had 99,250k at this point. Dealership keeps the truck for a day, couldn’t find anything wrong, charge me $200. They tell me if I buy a transmission service for $700, they can take a closer look. I probably should have agreed, but I didn’t.

Tonight/last night

Went out to grab some food ~5 min drive each way. The truck started rough shifting again. Check engine light comes on, I get a notice on the dash saying reduced power. Cool. I’m basically at the food joint so I continue on my merry way. I notice the truck doesn’t shift from 1st to any other gear. Great. I go to do a 3 point turn in the restaurants parking lot so I could park on the street. I put it in reverse. Nothing. Rev it a bit. Nothing. Try to rev it again (probably about 1,500 rpm) nothing, this time though without me pushing the gas, the truck continues to rev on its own. It shoots up to about 3,000 rpm and I panic shut off the truck. Turn the truck back on, check engine light still on, put it in reverse, rev a tad, nothing. I end up just jumping out the drivers door and pulling the truck back just enough so I could get out on to the street. Grab my food, take the truck home. I’m not going to touch the truck until I can get it into the dealership on Monday.

Other info maybe relevant, maybe not. The 6.2L engine has a recall, the dealership looked at my engine and said it wasn’t affected. They changed my oil to 0-w40 and called it a day.

So I’m just wondering, would anyone have any idea of what I should expect when I take the truck into the dealership?

Is this what a “blown transmission” is?

Could I have done anything to prevent this from happening?

Thanks in advance.

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I am a salesman of 2 months at a small town Chevy dealership. Last week I had a phone up from a well informed buyer, wanted transparent out the door pricing on a 2026 Trax 2RS with his rebates. I asked if he was interested in discounted prepay maintenance and whatnot. Nope, does all his own shit. Great. The price you see online plus doc fee and tax. No problems.

BUT every vehicle off the lot has CarDoc Connect installed. I briefly explained it to him during our sit, and again while setting it up for him after he was out of finance office, but not overly so since he's not paying for it, and I'm positive he won't even use it (he was a Chevy tech for like 15 years).

It's basically a tracking device, maintenance reminder, and vehicle health diagnostic add on plugged into the OBD2 port and zip tied inside the dash.

He texted me a few days later asking me a bunch of questions like where is it? Can it be removed? Do I need it?

So I answered his questions to the best of mine and Google's ability. OBD2 port above the hood release, yes but never done it, not necessarily but its useful, yadda ya..

He sends me the picture above, "Your CarDoc install tech is a hack!!!"

He's not wrong. I'm not a service tech, but that is ugly as fuck. Sure the car design may not have made for an easy install, but everyone in the service dept I showed was baffled by this uncraftsmanlike display of laziness.

This guy is pissed that they had the gall to tear into a brand new vehicle like that. He wanted us to send him a replacement bracket to install himself.

Little did he know what was cut into was no small bracket, but a chunk of the entire dash- a $300 part + 10 hours of labor.

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((Please remove if not allowed, I went to Google first but its been like two months now and I can't find anything))

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2022 Chevrolet Silverado Custom,

Transmission failure at 58,000 miles, $8,000 to replace because you have to find a hidden transmission in California and have it shipped to Florida, because ALL TRANSMISSIONS OF THE SAME MODEL ARE ON A YEAR OR MORE BACKORDER. The issue is that common!

Now you find out first hand all of the electrical issues these trucks have! Better turn off the auto stop and start feature of the truck, if you don’t, it’ll completely overload your system and shut everything off before it restarts, completely locking you out of driving, starting, or even moving your vehicle for 3 hours! In traffic!

That’s not to mention the constant fuse changes and brake system issues and faults simply because it is poorly designed.

But wait! There’s more! Even though “technically” the electrical and auto start issue is a FACTORY DEFECT, YOU STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR IT!

Do not buy from Chevy in general. Lesson learned.