2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO Complaints

MY WIFE WAS TRANSPORTING ME TO MY FIRST CHECK UP AFTER MAJOR SHOULDER SURGERY, WHEN THE BRAKES FAILED. UPON A MECHANICAL INSPECTION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT THE BRAKE LINE RUSTED TOTALLY THROUGH. WE WERE VERY LUCKY SHE WAS ABLE TO GET TRUCK STOPPED WITH NO INJURY TO US OR ANYONE ELSE. NOT A GOOD SITUATION WITH MY SHOULDER TOTALLY IMMOBILIZED. *TR

DRIVING INTO WORK THIS MORNING I TRIED TO STOP TO AND THE BRAKES WHEN TO THE FLOOR. I LOOKED UNDERNEATH AND THERE WAS BRAKE FLUID LEAKING FROM MY BRAKE LINES NEAR THE DRIVERS DOOR ON TOP OF THE FRAME RAIL. *TR

ALL MY LINES UNDER TRUCK RUSTED OUT BRAKE LINES SHIFT LINKAGE TRANSMISSION LINES. BRAKES WERE THE WORST LINES POPPED FROM RUST.I KEEP THIS TRUCK IN A GARAGE NOT USED COMMERCIALLY. I'M A HOSPICE NURSE AND NEED TO GET WHERE I'M GOING. I KEEP THIS TRUCK MINT DETAILED TWICE A YEAR PROFESSIONALLY MAINTAINED EVERY 3000 MILES.[XXX] INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6). *TR

1ST INCIDENT NOV. 2013 MY WIFE WAS DRIVING WITH THE KIDS AND WAS COMING TO A STOP AT A LIGHT AND HER BRAKES WENT ALL THE WAY TO THE FLOOR AND HAD TO SWERVE INTO SHOPPING PLAZA ENTRANCE TO AVOID A ACCIDENT. TOOK IT TO THE SHOP TO HAVE BRAKE LINE FIXED. 2ND INCIDENT WAS NOV. 2013 WHILE BLEEDING BRAKES AT THE SHOP ANOTHER BREAK LINE BROKE IN THE REAR SO I HAD TO HAVE THE SHOP FIX THAT ALSO. DEC. 2013 WHILE MY WIFE WAS DRIVING TO SUPERMARKET, WHILE DRIVING IN TRAFFIC SOMEONE CUT IN FRONT OF HER AND WHICH CAUSED HER TO HIT THE BRAKES & ANOTHER BRAKE LINE BLEW WHICH WAS ACCIDENT INVOLVED. *TR

STEPPED ON BRAKE AND PEDDLE WENT TO THE FLOOR. WARNING CHIME AND BRAKE LIGHT CAME ON SIMULTANEOUSLY. PULLED INTO CONVENIENCE STORE AND DISCOVERED BRAKE FLUID DRIPPING OUT OF BRAKE LINE ADJACENT TO DRIVERS SIDE FRAME RAIL. LOCATION WAS AFT OF BEND RADIUS WHERE THE BRAKE LINES TURNS TO GO UP TO THE MASTER CYLINDER. DROVE VEHICLE AT VERY LOW SPEED ONE MILE TO HOME, PUMPING THE BRAKES TO GET SOME PEDDLE PRESSURE. INSPECTED BRAKE LINE AND FOUND IT TO BE VERY RUSTED. VEHICLE IS IN OTHERWISE EXCELLENT CONDITION FOR ITS AGE. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO. THE CONTACT STATED THAT TRANSMISSION FLUID WAS LEAKING FROM THE HYDRO BOOST WITHOUT WARNING. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER WHERE THE TECHNICIAN STATED THAT THE HYDRO BOOST WOULD NEED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 120,000.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING 55 MPH, THE SPEEDOMETER FAILED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE CONTACT CALLED THE MANUFACTURER AND WAS INFORMED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS NOT RECALLED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 34,000.

I WAS GOING UP A HILL IN VERMONT AND THE BRAKES LET GO, PEDAL TO THE FLOOR. MY TRUCK SLID BACKWARDS, JACK KNIFED MY TRAILER WHICH SWUNG AROUND AND SMASHED INTO THE SIDE OF MY TRUCK. TOOK MY TRUCK TO HAVE THE BRAKE LINES REPLACED BECAUSE THEY WERE TOTALLY RUSTED WHICH CAUSED THEM TO BREAK. MY GAS LINE IS IN THE SAME CONDITION NOW. IT IS SO RUSTED MY MECHANIC WAS AFRAID TO TOUCH IT FOR IT WOULD BREAK. *TR

WHILE EXITING I95 AND TRYING TO COME TO A STOP, MY BRAKE PEDAL WENT TO THE FLOOR AND I ALMOST HIT THE CAR IN FRONT OF ME. I HAD A RUPTURED BRAKE LINE UNDER THE DRIVERS SIDE DOOR AND IT COST ME 200.00 TO GET REPLACED. *TR

BRAKE LINES UNDER FORWARD SIDE OF DRIVERS DOOR TOTALLY RUSTED THROUGH. TOTAL LOSS OF BRAKES WHILE TOWING A TRAILER. BRAKES FELT SOFT PRIOR TO COMPLETE FAILURE BUT NO WARNING INDICATION IN INSTRUMENT CLUSTER UNTIL TOTAL FAILURE. BRAKE FLUID GUSHING ONTO THE GROUND. *TR