2001 CHEVROLET TAHOE — Complaint #657860
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DIFFERENTIAL PROPORTIONAL VALVE filed February 16, 2008
NHTSA complaint #657860 (ODI reference 10218213) concerns a 2001 CHEVROLET TAHOE and was filed on February 16, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 13, 2008. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:differential proportional valve, 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 TAHOE cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:differential proportional valve 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 CHEVROLET TAHOE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
THE LEFT FRONT AND REAR CALIPER ARE NOT WORKING PROPERLY ON MY 2001 TAHOE. THE LEFT REAR IS SHOT, AND THE PAD HAS WORN CLEAR TO THE RIVETS WITCH ATE UP THE ROTOR. THE COOLING SHIELD HAS ROTTEN AWAY. I HAVEN'T CHECKED THE RIGHT REAR YET. THE BRAKES SOUND LIKE THEY ARE GRINDING. THE TRUCK IS NOW AT MY MECHANIC SHOP TO BE FIXED. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 657860 |
| ODI Number | 10218213 |
| Date Filed | February 16, 2008 |
| Failure Date | February 13, 2008 |
| VIN | 1GNEK13T31J |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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