2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #965631
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:SUPPLY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS filed February 28, 2013
NHTSA complaint #965631 (ODI reference 10500422) concerns a 2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on February 28, 2013. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 15, 2011. The vehicle had 105,600 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 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 2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2004 CHEVY SILVERADO. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARDS TO BRAKE FAILURE IN VEHICLE. *SMD UPON LEAVING A SERVICE STATION AND APPLYING THE BRAKES, THE PEDAL WENT TO THE FLOOR. DUE TO BEING CLOSE TO HOME, THE CONSUMER DROVE VERY SLOWLY AND PARKED AT A LOT CLOSE TO HOME. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO A MECHANIC. THE MECHANIC CALLED AND SAID THE BRAKE LINE WAS VERY RUSTY. HE REPLACED A SECTION OF THE LINE; APPROXIMATELY $400. THE MECHANIC INSPECTED THE LINES AND ALL FOUR OF THEM WERE RUSTY. IT WOULD COST $900 TO REPLACE ALL OF THE BRAKE LINES.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 965631 |
| ODI Number | 10500422 |
| Date Filed | February 28, 2013 |
| Failure Date | July 15, 2011 |
| VIN | 2GCEK19T941 |
Similar SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:SUPPLY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS Complaints for 2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500. THE CONTACT STATED THAT UPON INSPECTION, IT WAS FOUND THAT THE BRAKES LINES WERE COVERED WITH RUST. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A PRIVATE MECHANIC WH
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500. THE CONTACT WAS DRIVING 35 MPH WHEN THE BRAKES FAILED. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO A PERSONAL MECHANIC FOR DIAGNOSIS AND THE CONTACT WAS INFORMED THE
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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