2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500 — Complaint #638582
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:DRIVELINE:HYDRAULIC filed September 14, 2007
NHTSA complaint #638582 (ODI reference 10202970) concerns a 2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500 and was filed on September 14, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 10, 2007. The vehicle had 125,441 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:driveline:hydraulic, 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 SILVERADO 2500 cohort independently describe similar parking brake:driveline:hydraulic 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 2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
IN MAY (2007) I WENT TO NEW YORK AND DROVE MY SON'S 2000 Z71 SILVERADO BACK TO TEXAS WHEN HE WAS SENT TO IRAQ. THERE WERE NO PROBLEMS NOTICED ON THE TRIP, BUT AFTER THE TRUCK HAD BEEN PARKED FOR APPROX 3 WEEKS IN MY DRIVEWAY, IT WOULD NOT MOVE WHEN I TRIED TO MOVE IT ACROSS MY DRIVEWAY WHILE I WAS EDGING. IT FELT LIKE THERE WAS SOMETHING HIGH-CENTERED UNDERNEATH IT. MY SON TAKES EXCELLENT CARE OF HIS VEHICLE AND STAYS CURRENT ON ALL MAINTENANCE, ALWAYS. AND, HE HAD JUST HAD NEW REAR BRAKES INSTALLED BEFORE HE LEFT. I HAD TO HAVE A TOW TRUCK TAKE IT TO A SHOP AND THEY REPLACED ALL BRAKES AND EMERGENCY BRAKES BECAUSE THEY SAID THEY WERE FROZEN WITH RUST. WHEN IT WAS BEING DRIVEN EVERYDAY, THE RUST NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO OXIDIZE ENOUGH TO COMPLETELY FREEZE THE WHEELS UP, BUT AFTER SITTING FOR A WHILE IT WAS LIKE IT WAS UP ON BLOCKS. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 638582 |
| ODI Number | 10202970 |
| Date Filed | September 14, 2007 |
| Failure Date | July 10, 2007 |
| VIN | 1GCEK19TXYE |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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