2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #933425
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES filed August 11, 2012
NHTSA complaint #933425 (ODI reference 10470230) concerns a 2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on August 11, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 8, 2012. The vehicle had 145,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:automatic transmission:cooling unit and lines, 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 power train:automatic transmission:cooling unit and lines 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 2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
HI I WAS HAULING DEBRIS FROM MY YARD AND TAKING TO LAND FILL.ABOUT 800 TO 900LBS TOTAL. STOPPED AT CONVENIENCE STORE FOR GAS AND FOOD. PULLING OUT OF PARKING LOT, BRAKES GAVE OUT, BRAKE PEDAL WENT TO THE FLOOR. NO WARNING LIGHTS. NO WARNING AT ALL...BARELY ANY BRAKES AT ALL. I WAS JUST ABOUT TO GET ON EXPRESSWAY?? WOW! THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO STOPPING THIS THING IN AN EMERGENCY?? I SEE GM ALREADY KNOWS OF THIS FAILURE. I THINK A HEADS UP WOULD HAVE BEEN IN ORDER??? I'VE CALLED ALL THE PEOPLE I KNOW WITH SIMILAR VEHICLES. ONLY ONE PERSON WAS AWARE OF THE ISSUE AND HE HAS SPENT OVER A 1000.00 IN REPAIRS. REPLACED RUSTED BRAKE LINES. HE TOLD ME HE JUST REPLACED THE TRANSMISSION LINES ALSO. HAS ANYONE BEEN INJURED OR KILLED?? I CALLED THE DEALERSHIP, JERRY'S CHEVROLET FOR INFORMATION. I PURCHASED IT NEW. WAITING FOR SERVICE DEPARTMENT TO RETURN MY CALL. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 933425 |
| ODI Number | 10470230 |
| Date Filed | August 11, 2012 |
| Failure Date | August 8, 2012 |
| VIN | 1GCEK14T7YE |
Similar POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES Complaints for 2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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