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2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500 — Complaint #657082

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST:HYDRAULIC filed February 11, 2008

NHTSA complaint #657082 (ODI reference 10217661) concerns a 2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500 and was filed on February 11, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 8, 2008. The vehicle had 72,000 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 service brakes, hydraulic:power assist: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 service brakes, hydraulic:power assist: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 2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST:HYDRAULIC
State
Texas
Mileage
72,000 mi

Complaint Description

BRAKE FAILURE 2004 SILVERADO 2500HD DURAMAX. HYDRO BOOST EXPLODED WHICH RENDERS LIMITED STEERING AND BRAKES. THIS KNOWN PROBLEM 05V043000, 04V045000, FOR THESE TRUCKS NOT ONLY IS A BAD DESIGN BUT IT IS A HAZARD TO THE OWNER, MECHANIC AND INNOCENT OCCUPANTS OF OTHER VEHICLES SHARING THE SAME ROADWAY. *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 657082
ODI Number 10217661
Date Filed February 11, 2008
Failure Date February 8, 2008
VIN 1GCHK23284F

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