1999 CHEVROLET C/K SERIES — Complaint #912305
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:SUPPLY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS filed March 30, 2012
NHTSA complaint #912305 (ODI reference 10453564) concerns a 1999 CHEVROLET C/K SERIES and was filed on March 30, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 3, 2010. The vehicle had 130,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Kentucky based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:supply: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: yes, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. A complaint that flags a crash, fire, or fatality is escalated on NHTSA's internal review queue and factors more heavily into any Preliminary Evaluation decision on this make and model. 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 C/K SERIES cohort independently describe similar service brakes, air:supply: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 1999 CHEVROLET C/K SERIES shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TRIED TO STOP FOR CAR STOPPED TO TURN LEFT. BRAKE PEDAL WENT TOWARD FLOOR MORE THAN USUAL. IMPACTED SAID CAR BEFORE GETTING TRUCK STOPPED. FOUND RUPTURED, CORRODED BRAKE LINE TO BE LEAKING BRAKE FLLUID. HAD BRAKE LINE REPLACED. LATER HAD ANOTHER BRAKE LINE DO SAME THING.. HAD ALL LINES REPLACED AT MY EXPENSE. *JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 912305 |
| ODI Number | 10453564 |
| Date Filed | March 30, 2012 |
| Failure Date | August 3, 2010 |
| VIN | 1GCEK14T9XZ |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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