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 1998 GMC Safari submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 14 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
EXCESSIVE CORROSION OF HYDRAULIC BRAKE LINES. BRAKE LINES SO CORRODED THAT THEY ARE CRACKING AND SPLITTING LEAKING FLUID AND NECESSITATING EXPENSIVE REPAIRS. CORROSION ALSO NOTED ON FUEL LINES, AND VEHICLE UNDERCARRIAGE. *TR
WHEN APPLYING THE BRAKES AT 25MPH, CONSUMER LOST CONTROL OF VEHICLE, THE VEHICLE WAS SERVICED AND TECHNICIAN STATED THAT THE BRAKE ROTORS HAD BROKEN AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. *AK *SLC
ACCORDING TO PARTS WAREHOUSE, OVER 300 OF THESE HOSES HAVE BEEN ORDERED/REPLACED SINCE NOVEMBER 2001.*AK
THE BROKEN SHAFT ON THE HYD. PUMP CONTROLS BOTH THE BRAKES ,WHICH I HAD NEXT TO NONE ,AND ALSO THE POWER STEERING .I WAS ABLE TO STEER TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD VERY GINGERLY, ONLY BECAUSE AT THAT TIME I WAS COASTING AT ABOUT 10MPH ,ALMOST IN FRONT OF OUR DRIVEWAY.AT THIS TIME I WAS TOWING OUR TRAVEL TRAILER, RETURNING FROM VACATION,FROM THE WEST COAST, VIA INTERSTATES AND MANY MOUNTAINOUS ROADS.GOD HELP IF THIS WOULD HAD HAPPEN AT THE TIME .AFTER UNHITCHING THE 24FT. TRAILER, OUR VAN WAS FLATBEDDED TO OUR DEALER WHO DID A FINE REPAIR JOB ON THE HYD. PUMP PROBLEM.AS FOR THE WIPER CONTROL MODULE THAT IS ANOTHER STORY. THE PROBLEM OCCURED IN RAPID CITY N.D. WHILE TRAVELING 65MPH ALONG A HIGHWAY, DURING A RAIN STORM. THEY JUST QUIT OPERATING WITHOUT WARNING. WE SAT OUT THE STORM, THEN PROCEED BACK TO OUR CAMP GROUND.WE LOCATED A GMC DEALER IN RAPID CITY S.D. WHO REPAIRED THE PROBLEM. THE SERVICE MANGER HAD TOLD ME THAT THIS IS A PROBLEM ON MANY VEHICLES AND KEEPS MANY ON THE SHELF.
CRACKS IN REAR BRAKE DRUMS CAUSE BRAKES TO GRIND WHEN APPLIED. MANUFACTURER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED. PLEASE PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.*AK
CONSUMER LOST CONTROL BECAUSE BRAKES DID NOT CATCH, CAUSING HIM TO HIT A PARKED CAR. HE WAS BACKING OUT OF DRIVEWAY.*AK
BRAKES WERENT WORKING WELL, THEN NOTICED HEATER DIDNT WORK, SPEED ODEMTER DIDNT WORK. TOOK TO GMC REPAIR SHOP, WAS TOLD GMC AS A PROBLEM WITH FUEL INJECTORS LEAKING IN TO DASH OF VEHICLES. LARGE REPAIR BILL. NEEDS NEW WIRING HARNESS, FUEL INJECTORS, METERING BODY NOT SURE WHAT ELSE TIL THEY FIX DASH. RECOMMENDED NOT TO DRIVE MORE DAMAGE WILL OCCOR OR WILL SHORT OUT OTHER THINGS. OR CAUSE A FIRE. GMC WONT BACK UP THEIR VEHICLE. DEBBIE LULL
WHILE DRIVING AT A SPEED OF 25 MPH THE CONSUMER TRIED TO APPLY THE BRAKES AND THEY DID NOT WORK, CAUSING CONSUMER TO REAR END ANOTHER VEHICLE.*AK
COMPUTER WIRE.
WHILE TRAVELING 30-40 MPH DOWN AN INCLINE, CONSUMER NOTED VIBRATION COMING FROM THE FRONT END. CONSUMER CONTACTED DEALER, DEALER INDICATED THAT THE REAR BRAKES LOCKED UP AND BURNED OUT. CONSUMER HAS CONTACTED THE DEALER, DEALER GRINDED DOWN BOTH REAR DRUMS AND REPLACED SHOES. *YC
ANTI LOCK BRAKES FAILED, ALSO CAUSING PULLING. MJS
ABS MALFUNCTON CAUSING LEFT FRONT WHEEL TO BE LOCKED DURING PANIC STOP. YH
WHEN DRIVING BETWEEN 45-50 MPH AND BRAKES ARE APPLIED THE PEDAL GOES BEYOND THE GAS PEDAL, SO FOOT ENGAGES BOTH BRAKES AND GAS PEDAL. VEHICLE KEEPS GOING WHEN BRAKES ARE APPLIED. DEALER CONTACTED, AND STATED NO PROBLEM, CANNOT DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM. *AK *ML
BRAKES FAILED RESULTING IN VEHICLE COLLISIION. (NEW JERSEY POLICE ACCIDENT REPORT).
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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