2000 CHEVROLET IMPALA — Complaint #340836
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:SUPPLY filed March 28, 2002
NHTSA complaint #340836 (ODI reference 759858) concerns a 2000 CHEVROLET IMPALA and was filed on March 28, 2002. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 26, 2002. The report was geocoded to Minnesota based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:supply, 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 IMPALA cohort independently describe similar service brakes, air:supply 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 IMPALA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
ROLLING BACKWARDS AT A STOP.SHAKING/SHIMMYING OF STEERING WHEEL--HAD TO REPLACE ROTORS/BRAKES AT MY OWN EXPENSE BECAUSE WARRANTY EXPIRES AT 36,000.I ALSO HAD TO REPLACE THE MODULE BECAUSE IT WAS MALFUNCTIONING,THE PISTONS/RINGS AND THE ABS SYSTEM WAS ALSO MALFUNCTIONING--STILL AT MY OWN EXPENSE.NOW,I'M HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MY STEERING AND FRONT END MAKING CLUNKING NOISES.I BOUGHT THE CAR WITH 17,500 OR SO ON IT,AND NOW 24,000 MILES OR SO LATER I'M SPENDING A FORTUNE ON THE UPKEEP OF AN APPARENT LEMON.SURE WISH CHEVY WOULD DO SOMETHIN ABOUT IT INSTEAD OF GIVING US THE RUN-AROUND. NLM
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 340836 |
| ODI Number | 759858 |
| Date Filed | March 28, 2002 |
| Failure Date | March 26, 2002 |
| VIN | 2G1WF52E0Y9 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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