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2001 GMC SIERRA — Complaint #607669

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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:DRIVELINE filed December 27, 2006

NHTSA complaint #607669 (ODI reference 10177113) concerns a 2001 GMC SIERRA and was filed on December 27, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 17, 2006. The vehicle had 64,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Washington based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:driveline, 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 SIERRA cohort independently describe similar parking brake:driveline 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 SIERRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2001 GMC SIERRA
Component
PARKING BRAKE:DRIVELINE
State
Washington
Mileage
64,000 mi

Complaint Description

WHILE DRIVING ON THE HWY. TOWING MY 28 FT 5TH WHEEL TRAILER ON LEVEL GROUND WE EXPERIENCED A LOUD BANG AND THE FEELING LIKE SOMETHING IN THE DRIVELINE HAD BROKEN. NO ENGINE MALFUNCTION INDICATORS WERE DISPLAYED ON THE CONSOLE. NO FURTHER INCIDENTS HAVE HAPPENED YET, BUT IT IS CONSTANTLY ON MY MIND. *JB

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 607669
ODI Number 10177113
Date Filed December 27, 2006
Failure Date June 17, 2006
VIN 1GTHK29111E

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.