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2003 GMC SIERRA 2500 — Complaint #1123681

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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES filed October 26, 2014

NHTSA complaint #1123681 (ODI reference 10650027) concerns a 2003 GMC SIERRA 2500 and was filed on October 26, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 15, 2014. The vehicle had 170,000 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 power train:automatic transmission:cooling unit and lines, 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 GMC SIERRA 2500 cohort independently describe similar power train:automatic transmission:cooling unit and lines 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 2003 GMC SIERRA 2500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2003 GMC SIERRA 2500
Component
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES
State
New Jersey
Mileage
170,000 mi

Complaint Description

BRAKE LINE LEAKS, BRAKE STOPPED WORKING BECAUSE OF RUSTED BRAKE LINES. ALSO FUEL AND TRANSMISSION LINES ARE RUSTED BADLY. *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1123681
ODI Number 10650027
Date Filed October 26, 2014
Failure Date August 15, 2014
VIN 1GTHK23123F

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.