2002 CHEVROLET AVALANCHE — Complaint #652057
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL filed January 3, 2008
NHTSA complaint #652057 (ODI reference 10213616) concerns a 2002 CHEVROLET AVALANCHE and was filed on January 3, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 20, 2007. The vehicle had 80,363 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Idaho based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:conventional, 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 AVALANCHE cohort independently describe similar parking brake:conventional 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 2002 CHEVROLET AVALANCHE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
BRAKES WERE PULSATING AND TOOK TO LOCAL BRAKE SHOP FOR CHECK. REAR BRAKE JOB COMPLETED. LEFT REAR ROTOR NEEDED REPLACING DUE TO DAMAGE FROM PARKING BRAKE. PARKING BRAKE ALSO REPLACED. SERVICE TECHNICIAN INDICATED DAMAGED ROTOR FROM PARKING BRAKE WAS A DESIGN FLAW BY GM AND ALTHOUGH CHEVY AVALANCE HASN'T HAD A RECALL ON THIS FLAW, THE TAHOE HAS.*CN
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 652057 |
| ODI Number | 10213616 |
| Date Filed | January 3, 2008 |
| Failure Date | December 20, 2007 |
| VIN | 3GNEK13T22G |
Similar PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL Complaints for 2002 CHEVROLET AVALANCHE
1) ANTI-LOCK BRAKE UNIT FAILED; ) PARK BRAKE NEEDS ADJUSTING EVERY 4 MOS EVENTHOUGH USED DAILY; 2) BOTH FOUND IN DRIVEWAY; NO ACCIDENT 3) REPLACE ABS UNIT AT $950 , AND READJUST PARKING BRAKE AT $80
PARKING BRAKE FAILURE INVOLVING 2002 CHEVROLET AVALANCHE. THERE WAS NO DAMAGE OR INJURY. HOWEVER, WHEN BROUGHT IN FOR REPAIR, I WAS GIVEN A REPORT THAT STATES, ACCORDING TO CHEVROLET TECHNICAL ASSIS
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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