2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #259028
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES filed November 29, 2000
NHTSA complaint #259028 (ODI reference 875664) concerns a 2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on November 29, 2000. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 1, 2000. The report was geocoded to Kentucky 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 1500 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 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
VEHICLE DOES NOT SHIFT PROPERLY BECAUSE CAR WAS PURCHASED WITH A MISSING OUT OFF TRANSFER CASE SEAL. WHILE DRIVING COMPUTER SYSTEM COMPLETELY SHUS DOWN, AND VEHICLE IS ALSO POURING TRANSMISSION FLUIDS. *AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 259028 |
| ODI Number | 875664 |
| Date Filed | November 29, 2000 |
| Failure Date | August 1, 2000 |
| VIN | 2GCEK19T5Y1 |
Similar POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES Complaints for 2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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