My wife was traveling to bay city michigan to go shopping. She applied the brakes to slow down the vehicle as there was another car in front of hers, making a left hand turn. After a second or two of fairly hard braking, the pedal suddenly went to the floor. My wife was able to get to the shoulder to slow down before hitting the rear end of the car in front of hers. Thankfully there was an adequate shoulder that she could pull off and slowly come to a stop.
1999 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 brakes complaints
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Rear main brake line failure due to extreme rusting condition. This line is located along the driver side upper chassis rail. Further inspection of all brake lines resulted in a very rusted condition.
On march 12 2012 I was traveling down a road going to work when a vehicle pulled out in front of me. Driver did not see me therefore kept on going so I immediately hit the brakes and swerved to the left avoiding a crash.. At that time when I hit my brakes the pedal went straight to the floor. The ABS was activated but it took considerably longer to stop the truck since I had very little braking effort... I took it to a shop to have it fixed and it was determined that one of the 4 lines that were clustered together on the frame between the master cylinder and the ABS controller had burst. All 4 of the lines were very rusty. In addition, today march 16 2012 I went by the shop to see what they had done on the repair.. The mechanic informed me that he had repaired the line and when he was bleeding the brakes, another one of the lines had burst.
While driving on the highway, in a snowstorm, I had to hit the brakes to avoid another car, that had lost control. I was able to narrowly miss him, but when I went to stop, my brakes hit the floor. I was really lucky no one else was around, because I couldn't stop.
I have had nothing but trouble with rotted rotors, pads that don't wear right, brake lines that rotted and rusted away that they needed to be all replaced in july of 2006. A six year old motor vehicle should not have to have all the lines replaced. The bill was $1,200. Next a ABS front wheel sensor recall was done at best chevy, hingham, mass. The ABS lights came on and off at their own pace. I had new front bearings installed, had my mechanic check for codes. Nothing. The brakes just never felt right sometimes. I worked as a auto mechanic for nearly 25 years, never seen anything like this brake problem. By the way I took good care of my vehicle, gm must of used sub standard brake tubing, never seen anything so decayed after 6 years. On april 29, 2011 I was driving home and had stopped at a traffic light about 1/4 mile from my home. The light turned green, I accelerated up to about 30 MPH and within a few hundred feet the ABS light came on. Here we go again. As I neared the entrance to my street some 300 feet away , I took my foot of the gas and the truck began to slow. At about 200 feet I began to depress the brake pedal, it seemed ok but as I got nearer to the street I found myself needing to push down more and more. I was at 15 MPH and ready to begin my turn and felt something was wrong. My left front tire had begun to lightly skid. The pedal went to the floor, was down at about 10 MPH and before I could get my left foot onto the emergency brake and apply it, the left side front of truck struck a tree. The road is a private way and very narrow there. No air bag deployment, didn't damage the truck too much but it hit right on the tow hook and kinked the frame. I had my mechanic bring his analyzer to my home and it informed him that the control module had failed. I've spent good money after bad on those brakes and I demand the federal safety agency do something.
Brake failure caused by brake line failure due to corrosion. Upon inspection, all brake lines are severely corroded and must be replaced.
I was leaving giant eagle grocery store. I pulled out of my parking spot and pulled up to the crosswalk. There was a mother with her two small children crossing. I put on my brakes to stop to let them cross and the pedal went to the floor. Thankfully I put on the parking brake and stopped two feet from running them over, I pulled to the side and looked under my truck and saw one of the brake lines from the master cylinder to the ABS module was blown out. All of the brake lines on my truck are severely corroded. This is the second brake line failure on this truck. One of my rear brake lines failed do to corrosion last year. I patched that one and I'm going to patch this one since I do not have the money to replace all of the brake lines. It's just a matter of when not if the brake lines cause my death or some innocent people to die when I crash into them because of these cheap junk brake lines gm put on these trucks!
On january 11 2012 I was driving my chevrolet silverado 1500 1999 home from work. It was a clear night with clear road conditions. I went to hit the brakes, and as was the case when the brake lines blew in my chevrolet silverado 2500 2000 I felt little to no pressure before the pedal slammed to the floor. I had to use the emergency brake to stop the vehicle and had to pay $300 for new lines. The rear axle brake lines on both sides blew, as well as the driver's side front brake line going to the brake caliper from the brake booster. I would like to have the brake lines repaired by a dealer at no cost to me, as I had them done at an independent shop with aftermarket parts. I have faith in gm, and continue to buy nothing but gm products, and would like my problem repaired with the gm customer service, reliability and durability that I have seen with gm products in my history of ownership.
I had just finished replacing the rear brake calipers, rotors and pads. (I can't count how many brake jobs I have done in my career). I went out for a test drive. Everything felt fine until I made a hard stop. All of a sudden the brake pedal went to the floor and I had virtually no brakes at all. I am a brake systems engineer with over 25 years experience, so I knew I had a serious problem. I put the truck back up on my lift and discovered that the solid brake line from the ABS unit to the rear axle had ruptured and was leaking fluid. I investigated and found that it was severely corroded. All the other brake lines are also severely rusted and appear as if they could rupture at any moment. I dropped the fuel tank and replaced the ruptured line with a new one I fabricated. I do this type of work on nearly a daily basis so I am qualified to do so. It was very fortunate that this happened in a lightly traveled office park and not when I really needed the brakes or in traffic. It is my professional opinion, as an automotive chassis systems engineer with nearly 30 years experience in the brake industry, that these vehicles are unsafe to drive if they have spent any significant time in an environment of excessive moisture or where salt is used on the roads. These vehicles should be recalled immediately before someone gets severely injured or worse. I will no longer transport my family in this vehicle. If this had happened at a busy intersection the result would almost definitely had been a crash.
Tl* the contact owns a 1999 chevrolet silverado 1500. The contact stated while driving 55 MPH he depressed the brake pedal and it extended to the floor. The vehicle was then driven to a local mechanic who inspected the vehicle who informed him one of the brake lines were covered with rust, corroded and was leaking. The mechanic repaired all of the brake lines at the customer expense for $670. The dealer nor manufacturer were notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 308,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 1999 chevrolet silverado 1500. The contact stated that while driving 10 MPH, the brake pedal was depressed into the floorboard and brake fluid spewed out from the vehicle. After inspecting the vehicle, the contact noticed that all of the brake lines were corroded. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer and the manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and the current mileage was 200,000.
On 11-10-11 I purchased a preowned silverado 1500 ls truck from champion chevrolet,3606 bristol highway, johnson city, tn 37602. I was unable to try out the truck until they repaired a leaking brake line which I was advised had rusted.. After purchase I got it home and was examining the under frame assemblies and found all the steel brake lines are rusting prematurely. The dealer had installed a patch line where the rust rupture had been. The truck is otherwise rust free and in excellent condition. I realize there is no warranty of fitness of purpose under the uniform commercial code from the dealer or gm on this vehicle, but there is liability for defective design which survives to subsequent owners. I plan to tow a cargo trailer with the truck and am afraid there will be further brake line failure which could cause serious injury and property damage. I've now learned this problem is widespread with these vehicles and strongly urge a recall in order to protect the driving public and the owners of these defective trucks.
I was slowing up to stop at the stoplight and was close to stopping when suddenly my brake pedal went completely down to the floor and I had no brakes. Fortunately I was going slow and managed to come to a rolling stop. I had to call for a tow truck to take my van to a repair shop. They found a corroded and leaking brake line. They told me that the rest of the brakelines were also very corroded badly and would like also need replaced due to the corrosion.
1999 chevy silverado 1500. Moving vehicle in driveway, pressed brake pedal, went all the way to floor. Upon inspection found multiple corrosion points in steel brake line, that resulted in holes in the line. Two corrosion points/holes located in the "clips" that hold brake line in place. One "clip" inside the main engine compartment, another on top of the frame where line leaves engine compartment going to rear of vehicle.
When pulling up to a stop light at a congested intersection, I applied the brakes and the pedal went clear to the floor. After inspection I noticed I had a broken break line. Upon closer inspection it appeared that several were very corroded and appear ready to break at any given time. The truck is not a daily driver and I average less than 8,000 miles a year on it.
1999 chevy silverado 1500 2wd, I have no ABS brakes have not had them for years the ABS module went out the truck was barley 6 years old to expensive to fix.
All this due to rusted out brake lines. On 3/9/10 I was approaching a stop sign in a 35mph zone. I put my foot on the brake pedal and the pedal went to the floor. I was able to give it a few pumps and I stopped in time. I immediately drove 4 blocks to auto shop. The mechanic found a ruptured brake line going to the back brakes due to rust. Four days later I had to return my truck to the shop because my back brakes were sticking. I was informed that rust and corrosion had gotten into the back hoses and/or calipers and would not release properly. At that time he replaced the rear hoses and calipers. On 10/2/11 I had brake failure again. This time it was the front brakes. My mechanic informed me that it was a brake line coming off the ABS unit in the front of the truck. There are five brake lines in that area and they were all rusted. He said he would have to replace all of them because they would eventually fail. At that time, the front brake calipers were so rusted that he could not bleed the brakes, and he suggested to replace the hoses and calipers and all five brake lines, which I did. He also told me there is a cross brace on the frame that was almost rusted thru and needed to be taken to a welder to be fixed.
Both front and rear brakes failed due to corrosion caused leaks in the steel brake lines where they are ganged together approx 12"-18" before the ebcm. This failure caused my vehicle to slightly bump the vehicle stopped in front of me at a red light. There were no injuries and no damage. The accident was not reported.
My 1999 chevy truck brakes failed and I had to put it in a ditch to stop it before I ran into the car in front of me. When I got it pulled out of the ditch by a tow truck we looked under the truck to see the problem and there was a busted brake line but every line under the truck was rusted all most in to for it to be no older then it is, under the truck looks like it is 50 years old chevy has a bad problem on there hands.
Brake line blew out due to corrosion when pulling to a stop light, was able to stop the truck w/o incident. This was 8aug09. Repaired on 12aug09. On 5aug11 went to replace shocks thinking they were shot, problem discovered, entire shock mount rail assembly had rusted away from the frame and is hanging in the air. Mileage: 148876. On 30sep11 gas tank dropped to the ground due to corrosion of frame, and also exhaust system components have rotted away from the frame and now hanging, there are also some cracks in the frame, mileage 149476. There is no rust or damage to the body on this truck at all. It still looks like a new truck. The frame is rotting away from under the truck. I should have bought a ford. Will never buy another chevy. From what I see, this is a known problem that gm knows all about and refuses to do anything about all these trucks. Gm should recall and replace everyone's frames on trucks like mine that have perfect bodies before someone gets killed.
Rusted brake line caused complete brake failure while coming to stop at intersection. Lost all brake fluid while pumping brake trying to stop. Used emergency brake pedal to stop vehicle. Line was replaced by local mechanic. Happened several months earlier while coming to stop. Different rusted brake line sprung a leak. This leak appears to be located where brake lines are attached by a clamp located on top of chasis frame on drivers side of truck. Truck is now undrivable so is out of service waiting decision of who will pay for repairs.
Brake line burst while applying brakes. Accident avoided only because there was no traffic in oncoming lane and I was able to swerve to avoid stopping vehicle in front of me. 1999 chevrolet silverado 137,000 miles. Simple online research shows that this is a frequent problem with 1999 through 2003 chevy trucks. There is obviously a problem with the materials gm chose for these brake lines and a safety recall should be ordered before someone is killed in one of these incidents.
Rusted out entire undercarriage including brake lines of our 1999 chevy silverado.
I own a 1999 chevy silverado 1500, one of the brake lines burst during hard stopping which resulted in virtually no braking capacity. A crash was averted by steering past and luckily forward cars moving in time. A mechanics check of the system revealed severely corroded brake lines and overall undercarriage corrosion. All brake lines had to be replaced. The federal safety agency action number : ea11001
I was braking and the brake pedal went to the floor and I had about 10% of normal breaking power. I looked under the hood and my master cylinder was almost out of brake fluid. I looked under the truck and saw fluid leaking from a group of four brake lines running under the drive's side door along the side of a frame beam. It appeared as each of the four individual lines were running through a coiled wire. Upon further investigation, I found one of the lines without a coil wire surrounding it and it was the leaking line.
1. Brake line tubing corrosion blew a hole in the brake tubing while braking to make a turn. 2. Brake line fluid drained from master cylinder, truck can not be driven, it took some serious driving to get the truck slowed down to veer into an open parking lot before slamming into a car in front of me. 3.the truck had to be towed and is now sitting in the driveway without brakes. I have been reading about other chevy silverado owners having this same brake line corrosion failure.
We were in my driveway with a trailer and boat attached and proceeding down a hill when the brake pedal went to the floor. Fortunately, we were going at a slow speed and able to stop, then back up. If we had been on the highway going 50 MPH and needed to stop quickly, it could have been a much different story. Upon looking under the hood, it was found that one of the metal break lines had ruptured and was leaking brake fluid where it was rusted through causing the brake pedal to go to the floor. It appears that all the brake lines have significant corrosion that could cause them to rupture during brake application. This is a safety issue as the brake pedal goes to the floor and you have little braking power.
I own a 1999 chevy silverado 1500 that has about 35,000 miles on it. Vin# [xxx]. Pulling a trailer with a boat and going down a hill, the brake pedal went to the floor. Fortunately, I was able to back up. I found that the brake line had rusted through. Looking at all the brake lines, I find there is a tremendous amount of rust on all the lines. This is a safety problem. If I had been in other circumstances the failure would have LED to serious consequences of human life. Information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
0pulled into a shopping center parking lot from highway. Drove approximately100ft., when the brakes were applied the brake pedal went to floorboard. I was able to slow down and pull into a parking space and stop. Looked for any signs of leaking brake fluid but did not see any. I was able to make it home (about 2 miles). Upon arriving home I noticed large amounts of brake fluid in the right front fender well and engine compartment. Upon looking further and wiping down excess brake fluid I noticed a heavy drip from steel brakeline next to radiator. Have not repaired.
Failure of brake line feeding rear brakes. Rusted through. This is the 2nd failure.
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