1999 CHEVROLET TAHOE — Complaint #199551
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM:DRUM filed February 28, 2000
NHTSA complaint #199551 (ODI reference 719421) concerns a 1999 CHEVROLET TAHOE and was filed on February 28, 2000. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 1, 1999. The report was geocoded to Indiana based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum:drum, 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 TAHOE cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum:drum 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 1999 CHEVROLET TAHOE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WARPING OF FRONT DISCS/REAR DRUMS AND PREMATURE WEAR OF PADS/SHOES @ 15K MILES. DEALERSHIP AWARE THAT THERE IS AN ISSUE BUT NOT COVERED UNDER WARRANTY EXCEPT UNWRITTEN 12/12. HAD ROTORS AND DRUMS TURNED AND NEW PADS INSTALLED. PROBLEM HAS BEEN CORRECTED AND WILL HOPEFULLY LAST. *AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 199551 |
| ODI Number | 719421 |
| Date Filed | February 28, 2000 |
| Failure Date | December 1, 1999 |
| VIN | 1GNEK13R0XJ |
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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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