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2018 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #2129839

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES filed September 12, 2025

NHTSA complaint #2129839 (ODI reference 11686969) concerns a 2018 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on September 12, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 9, 2025. The report was geocoded to Washington 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.

Vehicle
2018 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500
Component
SERVICE BRAKES
State
Washington

Complaint Description

When attempting to stop, the brakes were rock hard and would barley compress. Almost crashed into the car in front of me. Brake booster was replaced a month ago by dealer, but still is losing vacuum. No codes are being thrown, so any reasonable driver would assume everything is fine with the vehicle. It is going to get someone killed.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2129839
ODI Number 11686969
Date Filed September 12, 2025
Failure Date September 9, 2025
VIN 1GCVKREC1JZ

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