2018 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #2095451
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES filed May 28, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2095451 (ODI reference 11663399) concerns a 2018 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on May 28, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 1, 2020. The report was geocoded to Indiana 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 2018 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Brakes sometimes require more pressure to stop or slow down. Transmission shutters and makes a clunking noise between shifting points. Kind of a sound bad u-joints make. Air Conditioning leaked all freon out in 2024 with 70k miles just 2mos. after service at a GM Dealership. Still not repaired.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2095451 |
| ODI Number | 11663399 |
| Date Filed | May 28, 2025 |
| Failure Date | April 1, 2020 |
| VIN | 3GCUKREC5JG |
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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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