1997 CHEVROLET MOTOR HOME — Complaint #432643
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:DRIVELINE filed September 30, 2003
NHTSA complaint #432643 (ODI reference 10040948) concerns a 1997 CHEVROLET MOTOR HOME and was filed on September 30, 2003. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 1999. The vehicle had 40,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:driveline, 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 MOTOR HOME cohort independently describe similar parking brake:driveline 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 1997 CHEVROLET MOTOR HOME shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
AUTO PARK BRAKE FAILS TO HOLD VEHICLE ON INCLINE. WITH TRANSMISSION IN PARK THE BRAKE IS SUPPOSED TO ENGAGE. IT DOES ENGAGE, BUT FAILS TO HOLD ON HILLS. THIS HAS HAPPENED EVERY TIME WE TRY TO PARK ON A SLOPE. I USE A SET OF WHEEL CHOCKS TO HELP KEEP THE MOTORHOME FROM ROLLING.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 432643 |
| ODI Number | 10040948 |
| Date Filed | September 30, 2003 |
| Failure Date | January 1, 1999 |
| VIN | 1GBLP37J0V3 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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