When the brakes are applied sometimes the pedal goes to the floor, and other times it gets hard, resulting in extended stopping distance. The dealer has cleaned and adjusted the brakes. The manufacturer has been notified.
1996 Chevrolet C1500 brakes complaints
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When applying the ABS brakes in emergency stopping on dry pavement the pedal will travel to the floor, causing extended stopping distance which caused a collision to occur.
When applying the ABS brakes on wet or dry pavement the pedal travels to the floor, causing extended stopping distance.
Brake rotors warped on four occasions and were replaced twice and resurfaced twice.
While driving ABS brakes failed, pedal went to the floor, causing extended stopping distance. In addition, front end misalignment, resulting in premature wear of tires.
When applying the brakes the pedal goes almost to the floor, and vehicle takes longer to stop. Truck is on fourth pair of brake pads in 2 years.
Anti lock brakes stick, causing premature wear of the shoes.
Brake drums warped, causing vibration.
Power brake booster failed.
While driving the truck applied brakes, the pedal goes to the floor. Once the driver applies pressure to the pedal the brakes will catch, and that's when the truck stops.
When applying the ABS brakes on wet or dry pavement the pedal will travel to the floor, causing extended stopping distance which nearly caused a collision. Dealer has replaced the master cylinder and the brake shoes which did not remedy the problem. Please give any further details.
Consumer was traveling 15-20 MPH, upon making a sudden stop brake pedal traveled to to floorboard, causing the consumer to have a collision.
Parking brake fails continually.
Abs brakes failed, pedal went to the floor, causing extended stopping distance. In addition, front end misalignment, resulting in premature tire wear.
Abs failure.
While driving 25-30 MPH and making a right turn the tie rod end broke on the left front side. The brakes failed, the pedal traveled to the floor, causing loss of vehicle control. *akplease give further details.
Owner has ABS brakes; brakes shimmy and the pedal feels mushy.owner also had rotors replaced.brakes seem to shimmy while braking from 60mph to 40 MPH.
Front end misaligned, causing vibration.
Master brake cylinder failed, causing leakage.
Fuel pump failed.
Applied brakes and pedal went to the floor, went to dealer 6 times, they dont know what the problem is.
Abs failure on 2/13/96, when applying the brakes the pedal went to the floor and front brakes locked up, back brakes released, causing vehicle to go through intersection. This happened on dry pavement. The pads were replaced one month ago.
Upon applying force to the brake s the pedal goes to the floor, causing extended stopping distance/ brakes fade away; complete loss of the brakes. Also, dealer has replaced the rotors.
While driving experienced ABS failure, upon attempting to slow/stop pedal went to floor, dealer can't correct. Kelsey hayes brake sys. Not fixed.
When applying all-wheel ABS brakes, the truck continued through intersection hitting another vehicle. Truck was towed to west covina auto body shop w/chevrolet inquiring about owner wanting to participate in an inspection. Owner has not heard from them.
When applying the ABS brakes, the brakes locked up, causing a collision in which the driver's side air bag did not deploy in frontal impact. *ak
Brakes lockup, anti lock brake light starts flashing.
After parking truck on a boat ramp w/parking brake engaged, truck rolled off ramp into water/submerged.
At all times the brake pedal goes to the floor and there are no brakes, have ABS anti-lock brakes . Please describe .
When applying the ABS brakes vehicle will still move using a lot of effort to stop and sometimes contues to drift forward even after brakes have been used.
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