2001 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN — Complaint #465594
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:MECHANICAL filed April 13, 2004
NHTSA complaint #465594 (ODI reference 10066044) concerns a 2001 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN and was filed on April 13, 2004. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 22, 2004. The vehicle had 54,000 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:conventional:mechanical, 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 SUBURBAN cohort independently describe similar parking brake:conventional:mechanical 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 SUBURBAN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
PARKING BRAKE FAILURE - 2001 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN DURING STATE INSPECTION (TEXAS) APPARENT CAUSE OF PARKING BRAKE FAILURE IS DUE TO MISALIGNMENT OF PARKING BRAKE SHOE. CHEVROLET HAS REDESIGNED THEIR THE RETAINING CLIP WHICH HOLDS THE PARKING BRAKE SHOE IN PLACE. THE REDESIGNED CLIP DOES NOT ALLOW THE PARKING BRAKE SHOE TO FLOAT OR MOVE INSIDE THE ROTOR OF THE REAR PARKING BRAKE ASSEMBLY. IN THIS CASE THERE WAS ABNORMAL WEAR TO THE INSIDE OF THE PARKING BRAKE ROTOR ON THE DRIVER'S SIDE AS WELL AS ABNORMAL WEAR ON THE PARKING BRAKE SHOE. THERE WAS NO NOTICEABLE WEAR ON THE PASSENGER'S SIDE REAR BRAKE ROTOR OF PARKING BRAKE SHOE. CHEVROLET HAS ISSUED A TECHNICAL BULLETIN TO ITS DEALERS WHICH ADDRESSES THE PARKING BRAKE SHOE COMING INTO CONTACT WITH THE ROTOR WHEN THE PARKING BRAKE IS NOT ENGAGED OR SET. THE FIX IS THE REDESIGNED CLIP WHICH REPLACES THE OLD CLIP. IN OUR CASE, WE DO NOT USE THE PARKING BRAKE ON A REGULAR BASIS (IF AT ALL) AND THE PROBLEM WAS FOUND DURING A NORMAL ROUT
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 465594 |
| ODI Number | 10066044 |
| Date Filed | April 13, 2004 |
| Failure Date | March 22, 2004 |
| VIN | 3GNFK16T21G |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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