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2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500 — Complaint #2038072

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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES filed November 5, 2024

NHTSA complaint #2038072 (ODI reference 11623701) concerns a 2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500 and was filed on November 5, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 5, 2024. The vehicle had 300,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas 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 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 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 2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500
Component
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES
State
Texas
Mileage
300,000 mi

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 1989 Chevrolet C/K2500. The contact stated while driving at an undisclosed speed, the transmission was slipping. The vehicle was driven back to the residence. The contact’s husband replaced the spark plugs and added transmission fluid. The contact stated that the following day, the vehicle was driving sluggish, and the gear shifter failed to function as intended. While the accelerator pedal was depressed, the vehicle failed to accelerate as intended. The contact's husband lifted the hood and noticed transmission fluid was leaking out of the transmission line. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where it was diagnosed with transmission line failure. The contact was informed that the transmission line needed to be replaced. The contact received Manufacturer Recall Notification N930018. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and the recall repair was performed. The contact stated that after the recall repair was completed the failure began. The contact stated that the f

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2038072
ODI Number 11623701
Date Filed November 5, 2024
Failure Date October 5, 2024
VIN 2GCFC29K6K1

Similar POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES Complaints for 2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500

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