Owner-reported complaints naming the brake system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming service brakes, the antilock braking system, brake hoses, master cylinders or the parking brake. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1994 Chevrolet C2500 submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 8 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
FRONT BRAKES WARPED. PADS HAD WORN EXCESSIVELY AND ROTORS WOULD OVERHEAT & THEN WARP. WHEN BRAKES WERE APPLIED, IT WOULD CAUSE THE VEHICLE TO SHIMMY & PULL. BRAKES ROTORS & PADS HAD EITHER BEEN CHANGED OR RESURFACED AT DEALERSHIP. THE BACK BRAKES ARE WORKING FINE. *AK
RECALL COMPONENT (99V-025) FAILED PRIOR TO RECALL NOTICE AND WAS REPAIRED. *MJS
FRONT BRAKE PADS WEAR EXCESSIVELY CAUSING BRAKE FAILURE. BRAKES LOCK UP THE FIRST FEW TIMES THEY ARE APPLIED AFTER VEHICLE SITS IN RAIN FOR SEVERAL HOURS.
HOLE IN THE TUBING OF STAINLESS STEEL BRAKE LINE CAUSED FLUID TO LEAK.
UPON MAKING A GRADUAL OR A SUDDEN STOP CONSUMER NOTICED PULSTATION IN THE BRAKE PEDAL. VEHICLE PULLS TO BOTH LEFT AND RIGHT, CAUSING EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE. CONSUMER HAS CONTACTED THE DEALER, DEALER HAS REPLACED THE MASTER CYLINDER. *AK *SLC
EXPERIENCING BRAKE LOCK UP AND EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE. VEHICLE HAS REAR ABS BRAKES. *AK
ANTI LOCK BRAKES HAVE FAILED TWICE RESULTING IN TWO VEHICLE COLLISION.
BRAKES FAILED RESULTING IN VEHICLE COLLISION.
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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