Chevy Blazer 2000 - In my 35 years of driving I have never owned such a poorly built vehicle as my 2000 Chevy Blazer. The number of problems is ridiculous. From the very beginning small things started and now it has grown to larger and more expensive prob

Chevy Blazer 2000 - In my 35 years of driving I have never owned such a poorly built vehicle as my 2000 Chevy Blazer. The number of problems is ridiculous. From the very beginning small things started and now it has grown to larger and more expensive problems. With 55,000 miles it has had more problems than my old 1977 Datsun 280Z with over 200,000 miles.

Chevy Blazer 2000

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In my 35 years of driving I have never owned such a poorly built vehicle as my 2000 Chevy Blazer. The number of problems is ridiculous. From the very beginning small things started and now it has grown to larger and more expensive problems. With 55,000 miles it has had more problems than my old 1977 Datsun 280Z with over 200,000 miles. The latter has only required new tires, brakes, a fuel backflow valve, and a clutch.

My Blazer:

Driver side seat handle broken.

Passenger side seat handle broken.

Driver side handle broken again.

Radiator leaked and required replacement. (After warranty period)

Intake manifold leaked. Required fixing and a full system (oil and cooling system) flush. (After warranty period)

AC is intermittant. Haven't fixed YET. (After warranty period). Nice on those summer days is SE Virginia with 95 degrees and 95% humidity that is typical of our summers.

Gas gauge is intermittant and seemingly random. (After warranty period). Haven't fixed YET. I use the trip odometer to see when I get to 250 miles. Having to do that is just BS.

Heater core leaked and required replacement. (After warranty period).

Combine this with very poor rearview vision along with the same gas mileage as my brothers Yukon with a big V8 and much more weight and what do you have - junk.

I asked my Chevy service rep will he be able to fix my Toyota when I buy it. It said he can service it, but it probably won't ever need fixing.

Scott B

Virginia Beach, VA

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I know wat u mean I hav a 2000 Chevrolet Blazer LT with 119,600 miles and it's been nothing but problems. First it was sum sensors in the transmission cost me $100 to replace em then a new A/C compressor which I bought brand new cost me $350 and now it's a temperature actuator which is gonna cost $270. I'm thinking of switching to a Toyota if there is another expensive problem with it.

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2000 blazer lt junk i will never buy chevy again not a blazer anyway had it for only a few weeks knock censor went out 2 weeks later engine light came on couple days later crankshaft went out paid to much this is a very crappy vehicle wish i would have done more research before i bought this junker its been nothing but money money money now it needs a new engine piece of craps been sitting for 3 months now and i aint puttin a new motor in it either gonna buy me a foreign car could by a nice car for the price of this crappy suv they call blazer should be called chevy junker cause thats what it is paid 5000 for it had 90,000 miles go figure new engine is 2000 dollars plus parts and labor to put it in like over 1500 more and thats knowing somebody oh yah and the relay censor went out signals dont stop blinking i suggest not buying one of these dont be talked into a pile of crap... c-dubb colorado

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I can't believe what I've just read. I wish that I would have seen this 2 months ago. I was told that their was nothing wrong with my 2000 blazer, yeah right. the dealer unplugged the dash board so that I wouldnt see that the engine light was on and the oil light. the gas gauge don't work and every 3 miles it will cut off and I have to pull over to crank it back up. i replace everything dealing with the air flow to the oxygen sensor and none of that seem to be the problem. I have never owned a piece of junk like this in my life. I will tell the world don't buy a blazer of any kind EVER, EVER, EVER.

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***This is my wifes vehicle. I would never buy or own anything except a Ford.

This just reinforces what i've said for most of my life.

2002 CHEVROLET BLAZER:

Both side seat handles broke

Dash lights work when they want to

Gas gauge is a piece of crap

Gas mileage is the worst i've ever seen

Forget looking out of the rear window

unless you ride without the spare tire

and cut off both rear headrest (I

honestly think the engineer who was

responsible for designing the rear

view area was smoking crack or had the

forethought of a 10 year old)

Side view is equally poor

FINAL ASSESMENT:

If the other G.M. vehicles have

same poor quality as the Chevrolet

Blazer, I totally understand why

they had to borrow $45.3 billion from

the government, oh wait I mean from

the taxpayers.

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My A/C is gone.

My heater core is bypassed.

I've gone through 5 motor mounts.

Replaced dozens of spark plugs.

Been backed into and run into.

Paint is faded and scratched.

Window is cracked.

Radiator has been replaced.

Spent countless hours in, under, and around it covered with grease and sweat.

And I can't do anything but be upset with my decision to finally trade it in for something else with lower miles...

My Blazer has been nothing but a workhorse. I've had my foot deep into the gas pedal almost every trip I've driven it. I never swerve for potholes. I still smoke the rear tire (no posi...) from time to time.

Sure, I've done my fair share of repairs to it.

Learned out the hard way how to do a standing burnout in a manual when I first got it. Broke the pumpkin loose from the axle housings on the rear end. Had a shop wrench it back into place and weld it. Drove it another 10k miles like that and when I put in a replacement axle I had found that a c-clip had come loose and got into the gears... never could tell until I popped the cover off.

Synchros in first and second give me troubles intermittently. Always did since i bought it (used). Swapped in a remanufactured transmission and it blew up in a year. Been running on the original since. Just grinds a little going into second the first few shifts.

Intake manifold gaskets did fail on me. I went ahead and replaced them with the GM revised set made of aluminum (not crappy plastic) and replaced the injector spider assembly while I had it all apart because I heard they have a tendency to get stuck poppets. Cost a couple hundred dollars (injector assy. being the majority) and a few hours of work and it's not given me a problem since.

Replaced the fuel pump due to a suggestion of a lazy GM tech. They quoted me $1000 to do it. I found a pump off eBay for 200 bucks and swapped it myself in about 6 hours.

I run nothing but synthetics in everything... Royal Purple in the transmission, Mobil's synthetic gear oil in the rear axle, Mobil 1 in the engine, and I grease all my steering joints with every oil change (as close to every 3k miles as possible) with synthetic grease.

I have driven this vehicle HARD for the last 120,000 miles. It's starting to show now. Driver's side spark plugs are getting massively fouled and need replacement every 10k miles or so.

With winter coming and me not having the patience to remove the entire dash to replace the heater core, I'm finally ending my relationship with my Blazer, and I have a good feeling that I'll be picking up another one down the road for a project vehicle.

I understand these vehicles have their issues and repairs aren't ever any fun, but I've done every repair on my Blazer except the initial axle repairs in my own garage. I'm no mechanic and I don't have any special tools.

Easy to repair and takes one hell of a beating. Drive it like you stole it. Mine seems to like being driven that way.

Sorry if you got a lemon.

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I don't want to sound too nasty, but the problem is that you don't do your own maintenance. I have owned multiple S-Series vehicles (two S-10's and one Blazer) and I know loads of other people that own them. There are always two distinct groups:

Those that love 'em and those that hate 'em.

The seat handle thing I will give you, and the air con always goes out with the cheap chinese compressors you get from the factory. However, replace that with an ACDelco and off you go.

The people that hated them always had a service tech, they had some mechanic, maybe even a family friend to do the work and they hated their Blazer.

The people that loved them on the other hand (myself included) work on them themselves. Keep the ball joints lubricated, use ACDelco parts whenever something breaks (which is rare for me) and you'll love your Blazer. My Blazer has taken some pretty serious punishment from me, and keeps on going. The other day I took the ol' girl off a jump (I really didn't know the road was that steep) and hit so hard it hurt me, but on she went.

The fact is that when something breaks you have to take it to your mechanic, you have to continue driving and exacerbate the problem. When I have a problem, I will stay up late into the night to have it running by morning. Repairs are cheap and reliable that way. There's no better tool for an automobile owner than his own two hands.

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i have a chevy blazer 2001 n i agree that they r crap!!! i have owned it 4 a few months n have had 2 put over $1000 into it already!! i bought it from a dealership n there was "nothing wrong with it"! YEAH RIGHT!!! after my warrant was up everything went wrong! i have had alot of the same problems as listed above... i should've researched it before i bought it! i have had 4 hondas in the past all in their late 90s, 2 civics n 2 accords n granted they have had their minor problems but never as costly or as frequently as my 2001 chevy blazer LT.so yes i would rather buy a foreign car thats made better than buy a crappy one from america!!! thats why our economy is shot because nobody wants to buy their junk! n for the person who says they have no problems n they love their blazer...its only a matter of time b4 u will b up here venting about the small fortune u had to spend to keep yours up n running good!

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I too have a 2001 blazer that has gone through 2 4WD units, a fallen off driver door, a rebuilt transmission, new brake lines etc etc. PIECE of Crap Chevy. And they use to be so good years ago?

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i have a 2000 blazer lt and i love it i dont get the best gas milege but hell its a SUV. sounds like u people wouldent be happy with anything u get so i guess go out and buy a jap peice of sh!t and hurt the economy some more.

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I completly agree. We have had the same problems also. Unfortunately, its our only vehicle. Drivers side door broke, passenger door broke, fuel guage non-existent...I have ran out of gas too many times. The minute the low fuel light comes on I better be at a gas station. Unfortuantely it will read 1/2 a tank until the last minute. Everytime my husband get's in and out of it he says a few explicit words and says "I will never buy a chevy again!!!"

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oh my god, i wish i had seen this before i bought my blazer. the gas gauge doesn't work i also have to use the odometer to guess, i usually just fill up every 3 days. the heater just went out. i bought the beast 2 1/2 weeks ago and i am taking it back to see if they will really fix it like they said, if you have any problems. piece of sh!t!!!!!!!!!!!

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I also have a 2000 Chevy Blazer and have almost had the same exact problems with it. I need to replace the seconed radiator along with the heater core right now. Passenger side handle is broken. Frount sway bar clamp had to be repaired. (no I don't take it off road) Oh and the gas gauge doesnt work. I have to go by the milage too. I am a single mom and now have to spend over 1000 dollares just for the heater core and radiator to be replaced. Luckily the radiator that I had put in a couple years ago is still under warrenty so I just have to pay for labor or it would cost more.

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sounds like my 2000 chevy blazer piece of crap this is the worse car that i have ever owned trying to find out why you start it up in the mornings before you take off it has heat 5 minutes down the road its cold plus everthing else that has went wrong with it if this the old west i would have shot my horse 12 times and buried it horay for chevrolet ill never own another one

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Oh my gosh... It sounds like you own my exact 2000 blazer... all the same problems, except my AC hasnt gone out yet... trying to find info on how to replace the heater core right now... Im not paying a shop to do it.

And Im buying a 4 Runner as soon as I can..

my fiance has an 84 Toyota pickup and we just rebuilt the engine at 200k miles and it still runs like a champ.