1999 CHEVROLET VENTURE — Complaint #393198
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DRUM filed February 9, 2003
NHTSA complaint #393198 (ODI reference 10005543) concerns a 1999 CHEVROLET VENTURE and was filed on February 9, 2003. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 6, 2003. The report was geocoded to Kentucky based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:drum, 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 VENTURE cohort independently describe similar service brakes, air:drum 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 1999 CHEVROLET VENTURE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
COOLANT LEVEL KEPT DROPPING AND THE BRAKES FELT SPONGY. TOOK TO LOCAL DEALER AND FOUND THAT MAINFOLD GASKET WAS LEAKING AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED AND THE REAR CYLINDERS WERE LEAKING AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. REPAIR COST $1078.00 FOR BOTH. THIS VAN ONLY HAS 56,000 MILES. GOOD TO SEE THAT OTHERS ARE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THESE COMPONENTS, MAYBE THE MANUFACTURER NEEDS TO RECALL AND FIX THESE PROBLEMS. A VEHICLE OWNER SHOULDN'T HAVE TO SPEND THIS KIND OF MONEY(FOR THESE KIND OF REPAIRS) AND RISK THEIR FAMILY ON THE ROADSIDE ON VEHICLES WITH THIS FEW OF MILES AND AGE. I'VE ALSO HAD AN AIR BAG WARNING LIGHT ON FOR MOST OF THE TIME THAT I'VE HAD THE VEHICLE. IT WAS WORKED ON A COUPLE OF TIMES DURING THE WARRANTY PERIOD. THE DEALER SAID IT WAS AN AIR BAG SENSOR PROBLEM. THIS VEHICLE HAS FRONT AND SIDE AIR BAGS. I HOPE THE AIR BAGS DEPLOY IN CASE OF AN ACCIDENT.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 393198 |
| ODI Number | 10005543 |
| Date Filed | February 9, 2003 |
| Failure Date | February 6, 2003 |
| VIN | 1GNDX03E2XD |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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