2001 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #447306
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:DRIVELINE:HYDRAULIC filed January 1, 2004
NHTSA complaint #447306 (ODI reference 10051467) concerns a 2001 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on January 1, 2004. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 1, 2001. The vehicle had 12,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:driveline:hydraulic, 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 parking brake:driveline:hydraulic 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 2001 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS WITH TRUCK. FIRST WAS THE SLIP YOKE IN THE DRIVE SHAFT, FELT LIKE TRANNY WAS SLIPPING FROM TAKE OFF AT START POSITION. REPLACED UNDER WARRANTY.*AK ANTI-LOCK BRAKES WOULD COME ON WITH EVERY STOP. USUALLY AT VERY SLOW SPEEDS, CAUSING TRUCK TO EXCEED 5-10 FT FURTHER THAN IT SHOULD HAVE. HAD FRONT WHEEL BEARING REPLACED, FIXED FOR SOME TIME DOING IT AGAIN. ALSO IN THE MEAN TIME, HAD TO HAVE ALL BRAKES AND ROTORS REPLACED. BRAKE SYSTEM IS AWFUL. THIS COULD CAUSE ACCIDENTS. ALSO, HAS COLD ENGINE KNOCK, VERY LOUD KNOCK, NOT A NORMAL KNOCK. SOMETHING ISNT RIGHT WITH THIS. DONE THIS SINCE A LITTLE OVER 20,000 MILES, WORSE WHEN TEMPERATURES OUTSIDE ARE LOW. HAD TO HAVE 4X4 SWITCH ON DASH REPLACED. KEPT GETTING SERVICE 4WD UNIT. OUT OF WARRANTY AT THIS TIME. I KNOW OF AT LEAST 4 OTHER WITH ALL SAME PROBLEMS. STILL NOTHING DONE WITH GM, SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE. ESPECIALLY WITH THE BRAKE SYSTEM. SAFETY HAZARD.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 447306 |
| ODI Number | 10051467 |
| Date Filed | January 1, 2004 |
| Failure Date | October 1, 2001 |
| VIN | 1GCEK19T81E |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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