TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 1999 CHEVROLET P TRUCK. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 50 MPH, THE BRAKE PEDAL WOULD NOT MOVE AND THEN SUDDENLY TRAVELED TO THE FLOORBOARD. THE VEHICLE BECAME VERY DIFFICULT TO STOP AND THE STOPPING DISTANCE INCREASED. AFTER STOPPING THE VEHICLE, SMOKE APPEARED COMING FROM THE FRONT BRAKES. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE INCIDENT OCCURRED AFTER BEING IN STOP AND GO TRAFFIC FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME, CAUSING THE BRAKES TO OVERHEAT AND THE ABS SENSOR TO ILLUMINATE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE ENTIRE BRAKE SYSTEM NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE MANUFACTURER AND THE DEALER WERE NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 40,000.
1999 Chevrolet P
Routine
Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the service brakes. No safety recall has been issued.
What fails
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Brakes | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsService BrakesFire
Filed Sep 26, 201740,000 milesVA
1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.
Across model years
Worst on record: 1999Reading this record
No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.
Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.
Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.