2000 Chevrolet S Utility

Routine

Owners filed 4 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the power train › automatic transmission. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Steering › Linkages › Rod › Relay › Connecting1
000
Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip1
000
Service Brakes, Hydraulic1
000
Power Train › Automatic Transmission1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip
Filed Jan 28, 200669,000 milesTN

WHEEL SPEED SENSOR CAUSED ABS TO TRIGGER AT LOW SPEEDS. SOMETIMES, THE SUV WILL NOT STOP WHEN IT IS SUPPOSED TO UNLESS YOU ALMOST STAND ON THE BRAKE. REPAIR SHOP SAID THIS WAS A COMMON PROBLEM WITH CHEVROLET, AND WOULD JUST CONTINUE UNTIL A RECALL WAS MADE. WE NOW SEE THAT THERE WAS A RECALL IN SOME STATES, BUT NOT IN OUR STATE. WE NEED HELP. WE HAD THE SENSOR CLEANED, AND THAT WORKED FOR AWHILE, BUT CORROSION THEN BUILT UP AGAIN, AND WE WERE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM. I CAN'T SELL IT THIS WAY, AND I AM AFRAID TO DRIVE IT. WE PURCHASED THIS AT AN AUCTION, SO IT COULD HAVE COME FROM A SALT BELT STATE." WHAT CAN WE DO? *AK

Service Brakes, Hydraulic
Filed Oct 12, 2005WI

I HAVE A 2000 CHEV. TAHOE. I AM THE ORIGINAL OWNER. I NOTICED A PROBLEM WITH MY BRAKES. I TOOK IT IN TO HAVE A LOOK AT IT AND THE REPAIR MAN SAID THE SENSOR IS NOT WORKING CORRECTLY DUE TO ROAD SALT. I THEN READ IN THE NEWSPAPER THAT WI WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL FOR THIS EXACT PROBLEM. HOW CAN GM LIMIT IT'S ANTILOCK BRAKE RECALL TO ONLY 14 STATES? A WI WINTER HAS LOTS OF SNOW AND ICE THUS ROAD SALT. I WOULD APPRECIATE A RESPONSE. THANK YOU JOHN D. MEISTER. *NM

Steering › Linkages › Rod › Relay › Connecting
Filed Jun 30, 200450,000 milesGA

2000 CHEVROLET S-10 SUV 4 DOOR 4WD AUTOMATIC WITH HEAVY DUTY TOWING PACKAGE. UNUSUAL TIRE WEAR AT 50,000 MILES WITH PROPER ROTATION AND INFLETION. REPLACED TIRES AND WAS ADVISED UPPER AND LOWER BALL JOINTS NEEDED REPLACEMENT. DID NOT BELIEVE THIS. LATER TOOK AUTO TO ANOTHER SERVICE SHOP AND WAS ADVISED OF SAME ISSUE. WAS ALSO HEARING A POP SOUND WHEN TURNING WHEELS SHARPLY TO LEFT OR RIGHT AS IN WHEN TURNING INTO PARKING SPACE OR TURN FROM A STOP. REPLACED UPER AND LOWER BALL JPOINTS.*AK

Power Train › Automatic Transmission
Filed Apr 10, 2002CO

TRANSMISSION LOCKED UP WHEN PUT IN PARK CREATING A ROAD HAZARD

4 of 4 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2000
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20023000Routine
2000 — this page4000Routine

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Reading 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.