Integrability of irrotational silent cosmological models

We revisit the issue of integrability conditions for the irrotational silent cosmological models. We formulate the problem both in 1 + 3 covariant and 1 + 3 orthonormal frame notation and show that there exists a series of constraint equations that need to be satisfied. These conditions hold identically for FLRW-linearized silent models, but not in the general exact nonlinear case. Thus there is a linearization instability and it is highly unlikely that there is a large class of silent models. We conjecture that there are no spatially inhomogeneous solutions with Weyl curvature of Petrov type I and indicate further issues that await clarification.