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 2000 Oldsmobile Silhouette submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 9 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
INTERMITTENT AND ONGOING BRAKE PROBLEM. WHEN APPLYING THE BRAKES BRAKE PEDAL WENT TO THE FLOOR, CAUSES PULSATION AND EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE. VEHICLE HAD BEEN TO THE DEALER ON NINE DIFFERENT OCCASIONS. DEALER REPLACED MANY PARTS OF THE ABS SYSTEM, BUT EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE RECURRED.
INTAKE MANIFOLD GASKET LEAKING AT 38,000 MILES. REPLACE BY GM UNDER WARRANTY. INTAKE MANIFOLD LEAKING AGAIN AT 70,000 MILES. NEEDS TO BE REPLACED AGAIN. I CONTACTED GM CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE AND THEY BASICALLY SAID THEY WOULDN'T HELP ME BECAUSE THEY ALREADY PAID FOR IT ONCE. THIS PROBLEM IS IN ADDITION TO BRAKE CYLINDER PROBLEMS AND OTHER COOLANT SYSTEM PROBLEMS. I ALSO HAVE CONSIDERABLE LEAKS IN THIS VEHICLE.
CONSUMER STATES THAT WHILE HIS WIFE WAS DRIVING SHE LOST BRAKE AVAILABILITY. CONSUMER SAID THAT THE BRAKES WENT SPONGY. TOOK VEHICLE TO THE DEALERSHIP, BUT DID NOT HAVE IT REPAIRED BY THE DEALERSHIP BECAUSE OF THE EXPENSE. HE SAID THAT THE TUBING WENT BAD. HE HAS NEVER HEARD OF THIS KIND OF A PROBLEM WITH A NEW VEHICLE.*AK
DRIVING ON I-95 SOUTH IN MODERATE TRAFFIC AT ABOUT 30 MPH WHEN TRAFFIC SLOWED AHEAD OF ME. WHEN I APPLIED BRAKES, NOTHING HAPPENED. I APPLIED BRAKES WITH 2 FEET TO THE FLOOR AND NO RESPONSE. THE CRASH INVOLVED THE THREE CARS IN FRONT OF ME WITH NO SERIOUS INJURIES BUT IT WAS FRIGHTENING. I HAVE READ A FEW SIMILAR COMPLAINTS OF THIS TYPE FOR 2000 AND 1999 SILHOUETTES.
WHILE TRAVELING ON THE HIGHWAY THE CONSUMER NOTICED THAT THE EMERGENCY BRAKE CABLE IS RUBBING AGAINST THE SHOCK ABSORBER CAUSING THE SHOCK TO WEAR. PLEASE FURNISH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DEALER IS AWARE OF THE PROBLEM. MR
WHEN DRIVING ON WET PAVEMENT AND WHEN ATTEMPTING TO STOP, CONSUMER APPLIED BRAKE PEDAL AND BRAKES FAILED TO RESPOND, CAUSING EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE. ALSO, WHEN BRAKES WERE APPLIED THERE WAS A SQUEAKING NOISE COMING FROM THE FRONT BRAKES. CONSUMER HAS CONTACTED THE DEALER. *AK *TT
BRAKING SYSTEM OPERATES ERRATICALLY. CONSUMER STATED THAT ROTORS ARE HEATING UP EXCESSIVELY WHEN ONLY TRAVELING ROUGHLY 17 MILES. *AK LEFT FRONT WHEEL BEARING BECAE NOISY, DEALER REPLACED HUB AND BEARINGS BUT NOT BRAKE BLOCK, ON THE WAY HOME A NOSIE WAS NOTICED WHEN STEPPING ON BRAKE, RETURNED TO DEALER AND MECHANIC HAD TO DROP THE WHEEL NUTS WHEN REMOVIG WHEELBROKE FRONT BRAKES WERE HOT, ROTOR WAS BLUE MECHANIC STATED THAT REAR BRAKES NEEDE TO BE ADJUSTED AS GM HAD INSTALLED TOO BIG A STAR ON THE AUTOMOBILE ADJUSTERS AND THEY DO NOT ADJUST UNLESS YOU MAKE A PANIC STOP IN REVERSE.*JB
AT ANY STOP WHERE THE ROAD IS ON A SLIGHT INCLINE, THE VAN WILL BEGIN TO ROLL BACKWARDS WHEN THE BRAKE IS RELEASED. ACCORDINGLY, YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR FOOT ON THE BRAKE AND GAS AT THE SAME TIME TO AVOID A ROLLBACK AT A STOP LIGHT. ACCORDINGLY, AN ACCIDENT CAN OCCUR IF THE CAR ROLLS BACK OR TOO MUCH GAS IS GIVEN WHILE THE BREAK IS BEING DEPRESSED. GM DEALER SAID THIS IS NORMAL FOR THIS MODEL. MY FORD WINSTAR DOES NOT DO THIS ON THE SAME HILLS.*AK
FRONT BRAKES MAKING A HORRENDOUS NOISE. THE VAN WAS TOWED TO DEALERSHIP. OWNER WAS INFORMED TO CHECK BRAKES WITH EVERY OIL CHANGE.
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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