2001 CHEVROLET TAHOE — Complaint #885039
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:DRIVELINE:HYDRAULIC:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS filed October 12, 2011
NHTSA complaint #885039 (ODI reference 10429941) concerns a 2001 CHEVROLET TAHOE and was filed on October 12, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 5, 2011. The vehicle had 85,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:driveline:hydraulic:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings, 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 parking brake:driveline:hydraulic:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings 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
BRAKES FAILED TO FUNCTION PROPERLY. BRAKE PEDAL SUDDENLY RETRACTED TO THE FLOOR AND BRAKING POWER WAS NEARLY LOST. THE BRAKE FLUID RESERVOIR WAS ALMOST EMPTY. UPON INVESTIGATION IT WAS CLEAR THAT FLUID WAS LEAKING THROUGH A RUSTED STEEL LINE ON THE LEFT REAR OF THE VEHICLE. THE LINE SHOWED SIGNIFICANT RUST PARTICULARLY WITHIN SEVERAL INCHES WHERE IT CONNECTS ABOVE THE REAR DIFFERENTIAL. THE RIGHT REAR LINE WAS ALSO VERY RUSTED IN THE SAME LOCATION BUT NOT YET LEAKING --- BOTH LINES WHERE REPLACE AT OWNERS EXPENSE. THE STEEL LINE THAT LEADS UP TO THE MASTER CYLINDER IS ALSO VERY RUSTY. *KB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 885039 |
| ODI Number | 10429941 |
| Date Filed | October 12, 2011 |
| Failure Date | October 5, 2011 |
| VIN | 1GNEK13T01J |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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