2001 GMC YUKON XL — Complaint #567842
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:MECHANICAL filed January 2, 2006
NHTSA complaint #567842 (ODI reference 10146727) concerns a 2001 GMC YUKON XL and was filed on January 2, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 2, 2006. The vehicle had 44,000 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 GMC YUKON XL 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 GMC YUKON XL shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2001 YUKON PARKING BRAKE WAS PRE-MATURELY WORN. MY OWN RUDIMENTARY RESEARCH SHOWS THAT THIS IS BECOMING A PERVASIVE PROBLEM FOR MANY LATE MODEL GM SUV/TRUCK OWNERS. BRAKE SHOE WAS GONE, SCRAPING METAL TO METAL WITH ROTOR. PARKING BRAKE WAS NOT FUNCTIONAL AND POTENTIAL HAZARDOUS IF RELIED UPON FOR PARKING ON AN INCLINE. DEFECT IN THE BRAKE SHOE ALONE WAS $250 TO REPAIR + $200 TO REPLACE THE ROTOR DAMAGED BY THE FAULTY BRAKE SHOE. GM HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THIS PROBLEM WITH A SERVICE BULLETIN, BUT REFUSES TO REPLACE VOLUNTARILY. *JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 567842 |
| ODI Number | 10146727 |
| Date Filed | January 2, 2006 |
| Failure Date | January 2, 2006 |
| VIN | 3GKEC16T71G |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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