2005 CHEVROLET COLORADO — Complaint #603281
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM:WHEEL CYLINDERS filed November 16, 2006
NHTSA complaint #603281 (ODI reference 10173665) concerns a 2005 CHEVROLET COLORADO and was filed on November 16, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 18, 2006. The vehicle had 51,230 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to South Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum:wheel cylinders, 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 COLORADO cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum:wheel cylinders 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 2005 CHEVROLET COLORADO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
ON OCTOBER 18TH IN THE MORNING I WAS DRIVING BY CHEVROLET COLORADO 2005, AND THE BRAKE FLUID LIGHT CAME ON DURING DRIVING. WITHIN MINUTES, I LOST ALL ABILITY TO BREAK. THE VEHICLE HAD AROUND 50K MILES ON IT AT THE TIME. UPON INSPECTION AT THE NEAREST PLACE OF REPAIR, MY ENTIRE RIGHT REAR BREAK DRUM (THE PISTON) HAD BURST AND LEAKED ALL OF THE FLUID FROM THE BREAK LINES INTO THE DRUM. THE RESULTING METAL FRAGMENTS HAD GROUND INTO THE DRUM AND CAUSED MASSIVE FAILURE OF THE ENTIRE SYSTEM. THIS ALL RESULTED IN MY BEING UNABLE TO BRAKE WHILE DRIVING, AND I ALMOST WRECKED THE VEHICLE INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE AT 50 MILES PER HOUR. I HAD TO ROLL MY VEHICLE INTO A NEARBY SHOP AND HAVE IT FIXED. THERE IS NO WAY THIS SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED. I AM A MECHANIC AND FAILURES LIKE THIS AT SUCH LOW MILES ARE UNHEARD OF. CHEVROLET DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE PARTS (AT ANY DEALERSHIP IN SC) TO DEAL WITH THE REPAIR, AND THE GENTLEMAN AT THE DEALERSHIP COULDN'T BELIEVE IT HAD HAPPENED BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T EVEN R
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 603281 |
| ODI Number | 10173665 |
| Date Filed | November 16, 2006 |
| Failure Date | October 18, 2006 |
| VIN | 1GCDT136158 |
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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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