1999 CHEVROLET TAHOE — Complaint #533325
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:SLACK ADJUSTERS:AUTOMATIC filed May 3, 2005
NHTSA complaint #533325 (ODI reference 10119672) concerns a 1999 CHEVROLET TAHOE and was filed on May 3, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 27, 2005. The vehicle had 9,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:slack adjusters:automatic, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 TAHOE cohort independently describe similar service brakes, air:slack adjusters:automatic 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 TAHOE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
SINCE PURCHASING THE VEHICLE (DEALER DEMO) IN LATE 1999, FRONT ROTORS HAVE BEEN TURNED FOUR TIMES AND REPLACED ONCE DUE TO WARPING. THIS PROBLEM HAS BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO THE FACT FRONT BRAKES ARE DOING ALL THE BRAKING. IT SEEMS THE REAR BRAKE ADJUSTERS DO NOT HOLD ADJUSTMENT FOR MORE THAN A FEW APPLICATIONS OF THE BRAKES. THE REAR PADS HAVE NEVER BEEN REPLACED BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT WORN DUE TO A LACK OF APPLICATION TO THE DRUM. THE VEHICLE HAS HAD THE ADJUSTERS CLEANED SEVERAL TIMES AND THE BRAKES HAVE WORKED FOR A FEW DAYS ONLY TO HAVE THE REAR BRAKES LOSE ADJUSTMENT AGAIN. OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A SERIOUS SAFTEY ISSUE AS THE VEHICLE TAKES MUCH MORE EFFORT TO STOP ITS MOTION. ATHE REPLACEMENT COST OF THE FRONT PADS AND TRUING OF THE ROTORS HAS BEEN EXPENSIVE. THE COST FAR HIGHER THAN NORMAL FOR MOST VEHICLES IN THIS CLASS. A VERY NEAR ACCIDENT WAS BARELY AVOIDED THIS PAST WEEK DUE TO A LOSS OF STOPPING POWER AS THE REAR BRAKES DO NOT ASSIST THE FRONT DISCS. ALSO THE EMERGENCY BRAKE DOES NOT
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 533325 |
| ODI Number | 10119672 |
| Date Filed | May 3, 2005 |
| Failure Date | April 27, 2005 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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