2004 CHEVROLET AVALANCHE — Complaint #1005607
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:SUPPLY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS filed August 28, 2013
NHTSA complaint #1005607 (ODI reference 10537774) concerns a 2004 CHEVROLET AVALANCHE and was filed on August 28, 2013. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 25, 2013. The vehicle had 125,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New Jersey based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:supply:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CHEVROLET AVALANCHE cohort independently describe similar service brakes, air:supply:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2004 CHEVROLET AVALANCHE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I HAD ABSOLUTELY NO WARNING THAT MY BRAKES WERE FAILING. ON A DOWNWARD SLOPE OF ROAD, (OLD ROUTE 23S) IN CEDAR GROVE, AS I WAS APPROACHING A LIGHT WITH VEHICLES AT A STOP. MY BRAKES WERE GIVING WAY AND WERE NOT ALLOWING ME TO STOP COMPLETELY. I KEPT ON PUMPING THEM IN HOPES THAT THE HYDRAULICS WOULD KICK IN; THEY DID NOT. AS I APPROACHED THE STOPPED VEHICLES, I WAS READY TO USE MY EMERGENCY BREAK BUT THE LIGHT TURNED GREEN, I WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE WITH THE TRAVEL & VEERED INTO THE INTERSECTION'S TURN TO PULL OVER ONTO THE SHOULDER WHERE I USED THE EMERGENCY BRAKE TO STOP AND CALLED AAA TO BE TOWED. MY MECHANIC CALLED ME WITH THE 'EXTENSIVE AMOUNT OF PROBLEMS' THAT MY BRAKE LINES ARE ENDURING. ONE IS BUSTED COMPLETED; THE OTHERS ARE COMPLETELY RUSTED AND ALL NEED REPLACEMENT. I HAVE BEEN WITHOUT A VEHICLE FOR 4 DAYS SO FAR AND AM WAITING TO SEE WHAT THE TRUE 'DAMAGES' ARE GOING TO BE AS FAR AS EXPENSE. I AM HAPPY THAT I DIDN'T HIT ANY OTHER VEHICLES OR INJURY ANYONE. I
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1005607 |
| ODI Number | 10537774 |
| Date Filed | August 28, 2013 |
| Failure Date | August 25, 2013 |
| VIN | 3GNEK12T44G |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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