2005 CHEVROLET COLORADO — Complaint #637589
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM filed September 7, 2007
NHTSA complaint #637589 (ODI reference 10202153) concerns a 2005 CHEVROLET COLORADO and was filed on September 7, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 6, 2007. The vehicle had 57,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Iowa based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum, 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 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
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 CHEVROLET COLORADO. ON JULY 5, 2006, WHILE APPLYING THE BRAKES, THE VEHICLE BEGAN GRINDING, STALLING, AND DRIVING AS IF IT WERE TOWING HEAVY EQUIPMENT. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE GRINDING HAS WORSENED OVER TIME AND AN INDICATOR ILLUMINATED STATING THAT THE PARKING BRAKE WAS IN USE, WHEN IT WAS NOT. AT 33,000 MILES, THE ENGINE TEMPORARILY SEIZED. AFTER A DIAGNOSIS WAS PERFORMED, THE CONTACT WAS INFORMED THAT THE PASSENGER SIDE REAR CABLE WAS FROZEN, THE REAR BRAKES WERE GLAZED AND SQUEALING, THE PASSENGER SIDE REAR DRUM WAS EGG-SHAPED AND BLUE, THE PASSENGER SIDE REAR BRAKE CABLE NEEDED TO BE REPLACED, AND THE FRONT CABLE WAS STUCK. THE PASSENGER SIDE REAR BRAKE DRUMS AND PARKING BRAKE ACTUATOR WERE REPLACED AND THE REAR BRAKES WERE ADJUSTED. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FAILURES HAVE RECURRED. THE SPEED WAS UNKNOWN. THE CURRENT AND FAILURE MILEAGES WERE 57,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 637589 |
| ODI Number | 10202153 |
| Date Filed | September 7, 2007 |
| Failure Date | September 6, 2007 |
| VIN | 1GCDT136058 |
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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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