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2009 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #1816145

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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:STEERING WHEEL /HANDLE BAR:YAW/ANGLE SENSOR filed June 2, 2022

NHTSA complaint #1816145 (ODI reference 11467149) concerns a 2009 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on June 2, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2022. The vehicle had 220,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to West Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:steering wheel /handle bar:yaw/angle sensor, 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 steering:steering wheel /handle bar:yaw/angle sensor 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 2009 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2009 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500
Component
STEERING:STEERING WHEEL /HANDLE BAR:YAW/ANGLE SENSOR
State
West Virginia
Mileage
220,000 mi

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2009 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. The contact stated while driving at an undisclosed speed, the brakes seized without warning, causing the ABS to activate. The failure nearly caused a collision. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where it was diagnosed with a faulty steering angle sensor; however, the dealer informed the contact that the steering angle sensor part was no longer being manufactured. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 220,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1816145
ODI Number 11467149
Date Filed June 2, 2022
Failure Date January 1, 2022
VIN 1GCEK29J89Z

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