2001 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 3500 — Complaint #953000
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DISC:CALIPER filed December 10, 2012
NHTSA complaint #953000 (ODI reference 10487826) concerns a 2001 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 3500 and was filed on December 10, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 1, 2012. The vehicle had 104,000 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 service brakes, air:disc:caliper, 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 3500 cohort independently describe similar service brakes, air:disc:caliper 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 SILVERADO 3500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2001 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 3500. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE BRAKES FAILED TO ENGAGE, CAUSING THE CONTACT TO DRIVE THROUGH A RED TRAFFIC LIGHT. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO A LOCAL MECHANIC AND A DIAGNOSTIC WAS PERFORMED. THE FAILURE WAS LOCATED AT THE REAR BRAKE LINES AND THE FUEL TANK, WHICH WAS SEVERELY CORRODED. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FRONT FRAME WAS ALSO FOUND TO BE CORRODED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE VIN WAS NOT AVAILABLE. THE APPROXIMATE CURRENT AND FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 104,000. UPDATED 01/05/13*LJ THE CONSUMER STATED THIS MALFUNCTION HAS ALSO CAUSED THE LEFT REAR REAR BRAKE CALIPER TO FAIL. THE CALIPER HAD NOT BEEN REPLACED. UPDATED 02/08/2013*JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 953000 |
| ODI Number | 10487826 |
| Date Filed | December 10, 2012 |
| Failure Date | September 1, 2012 |
| VIN | 1GCJK39G51E |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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