1999 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #915001
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:SUPPLY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS filed April 18, 2012
NHTSA complaint #915001 (ODI reference 10455661) concerns a 1999 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on April 18, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 28, 2012. The vehicle had 122,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio 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: 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 1500 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 SILVERADO 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WE HAVE NOTICED THAT AREAS ON THE TRUCK WHERE RUSTING OUT. BUT WHEN THE BRAKES FAILED DUE TO THE LINES BEING RUSTED THROUGH I WAS VERY UPSET. I DO REALIZE THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE THIS FROM NORMAL WEAR BUT THE RUSTING IS EXTENSIVE.I WANT TO FILE A COMPLAINT AS I DO HOPE THAT THIS WILL NOT CAUSE AN ACCIDENT FOR SOMEONE ELSE. *JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 915001 |
| ODI Number | 10455661 |
| Date Filed | April 18, 2012 |
| Failure Date | February 28, 2012 |
| VIN | 1GCEK14V0XE |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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