1991 CHEVROLET CAPRICE — Complaint #25834
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:CONTROLS filed November 9, 1995
NHTSA complaint #25834 (ODI reference 483128) concerns a 1991 CHEVROLET CAPRICE and was filed on November 9, 1995. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 14, 1995. The report was geocoded to Alaska based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:controls, 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 CAPRICE cohort independently describe similar service brakes, air:controls 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 1991 CHEVROLET CAPRICE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
BRAKE PEDAL DESIGNED TOO CLOSE TO ACCELERATOR, CAUSING DRIVER TO PUSH BOTH PEDALS AT SAME TIME, AND VEHICLE TO SURGE RATHER THAN STOP.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 25834 |
| ODI Number | 483128 |
| Date Filed | November 9, 1995 |
| Failure Date | August 14, 1995 |
| VIN | 1G1BN53E4MW |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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