2016 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #1557992
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES filed April 15, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1557992 (ODI reference 11196409) concerns a 2016 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 13, 2019. The vehicle had 43,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, 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 SILVERADO 1500 cohort independently describe similar service brakes 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 2016 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WHEN I PUT THE TRUCK IN DRIVE TO MOVE FORWARD THE TRUCK WOULD NOT STOP. I PRESSED VERY HARD ON THE BRAKES TO GET IT TO STOP. I THEN PLACE THE TRUCK IN PARK AND TRIED AGAIN TO MOVE BACKWARDS. THE BRAKES WOULD NOT STOP THE VEHICLE. I HAD TO PRESS AS HARD AS I COULD TO GET IT TO STOP. ALMOST HIT A BUILDING. THIS HAS HAPPENED ON 2 OTHER OCCASIONS IN A PARKING LOT AND PULLING OUT ONTO A MAIN ROAD FROM A DRIVEWAY. WHEN I TURN THE VEHICLE OFF AND RESTART THEN THE BRAKES WILL ENGAGE AND WORK PROPERLY. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS PROBLEM.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1557992 |
| ODI Number | 11196409 |
| Date Filed | April 15, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 13, 2019 |
| VIN | 3GCUKREC2GG |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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