Complaint 1126118
2006 CHEVROLET SILVERADO • SERVICE BRAKES • incident Oct 31, 2014
Crash
No
Fire
No
Injuries
0
Deaths
0
- Complaint ID
- 1126118
- Make
- CHEVROLET
- Model
- SILVERADO
- Model Year
- 2006
- Component
- SERVICE BRAKES
- Incident Date
- Oct 31, 2014
- Date Received
- Oct 31, 2014
- Data As Of
- Sep 1, 2026
Complaint Summary
SERVICE BRAKES
Owner Narrative
AS I WAS PROCEDIN TOWARDS A YIELD SIGN, MY BRAKES SEEMED TO HAVE GIVEN OUT. THE VEHICLE WOULD STOP BUT SLOWLY AND NEARLY CAUSED ME TO GET SIDESWIPED BY AN ONCOMING VEHICLE. UPON RETURNING HOME I SAW A MASSIVE POL OF BRAKE FLUID UNDERNEATH THE VEHICLE. HAVING ANOTHER PERSON HIT THE BRAKES I SAW THAT THE FLUID WAS ESCAPING FROM THE METAL BRAKE LINE RUNNING UNDERNEATH THE COOLING FANS. THE LINE WAS SEVERELY CORRODED BY RUST. *TR
Owner-submitted narrative on file with NHTSA. Complaint narratives are self-reported and have not been verified.
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