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2020 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #1866251

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:MASTER CYLINDER filed January 17, 2023

NHTSA complaint #1866251 (ODI reference 11502251) concerns a 2020 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on January 17, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 17, 2022. The vehicle had 45,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Mississippi based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:master cylinder, 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, hydraulic:foundation components:master cylinder 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 2020 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2020 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:MASTER CYLINDER
State
Mississippi
Mileage
45,500 mi

Complaint Description

The contact's son owns a 2020 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. The contact stated that while her son was driving approximately 60 MPH, the vehicle stalled with the "Service Brakes System" message displayed. The contact stated that the failure recurred and that the vehicle was unable to accelerate over 40 MPH. The vehicle was taken to a local dealer, where it was diagnosed that the brake master cylinder needed to be replaced. The vehicle remained at the dealer awaiting the repair. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 45,500.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1866251
ODI Number 11502251
Date Filed January 17, 2023
Failure Date December 17, 2022
VIN 1GCPWBEK0LZ

Similar SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:MASTER CYLINDER Complaints for 2020 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500

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