The positive terminal on the original delco battery broke off, leaking acid down the wheel well onto the right front brake lines and the ABS electrical connector to the right front brake. The acid corroded the brake line, electrical connector, and removed the paint on the frame and lower a-frame. The failure occured in our driveway and the vehicle was disabled. Had to buy a new battery and 2 cans of battery acid cleaner to remove the acid in the right side engine compartment and lower frame assembly. The brake problem occured as my wife was driving home. She said that the steering was shaking and rumbling. It was pulling to one side. I found the left front caliper had seized in the cradle assembly and worn the outer pad to less than a tenth of an inch. She said it had been squealing for a couple of days. The right side was ok, but, I changed all front pads any how. I had to clean rust from the caliper and mount to allow movement in the assembly. I still have the bad battery and the brake pads.
1999 Chevrolet Tahoe electrical complaints
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The battery in my 1999 tahoe has started leaking from the postive post and has done $ 480 damage to the cables and starter motor. The service rep said that it had been leaking for a while. I had it in for service just 10 days before, and nothen was said about a leak. Reailable said that the battery is a 6 yr. Battery, but when it is put into a new vehicle the warrenty is for 3 yrs or 36,000 miles. He said that delco has a problem with their side post batterys and they are changing out a lot of them, but because I have over 36,000 miles, I will have to pay for my work. When I bought the vehicle, I was told that it would not need a tune up for 100,000 miles and it has a maintance free battery. Here it is 28 months later and only 59,000 miles and the battery has done $480.00 of damage, and I find out it is happing a lot with delco batterys. This can be a hazard, because the acid gets on driveways and kids play there. When I bought the vehicle, I ask fro a gm extented warrenty. I paid $540.00 for this and now I find out that I got some other warrenty, not the gm one and it doesn't cover batterys. What is the consumer suppose to do. I have had the regular maintance require by gm done at reliable and only 10 days eariler it was in their shop for oil change and greased and I was not notified of this damage. Any help you can give me will be appreciated. To make thing worse, I was charged $34.95 by reliable to run a diagnosis test to determine the battery was leaking from the post. The service rep raised the hood when I carried it in and said it is leaking from the post, this is a problem with delco batterys. I don't see why a test was then ran.
Battery has leaked acid onto brake line, causing all fluid to leak, amd a loss of braking power. Deaelr has been contacted.*ak the battery acid corroded the brake line.
Vehicle was parked in front of consumer's house. She got inside of vehicle and attempted to start it up, but vehicle would not start. Her husband opened the hood, and battery had exploded, and leaked battery acid all over the vehicle.
Fuse burned out and there was no turn signals. Dealership changed the fuse. They didn't know what the problem was.
Battery leak. Caused positive post to corrode/disconnect. Truck is only 1 year old, with less that 15,000 miles. Battery acid all over engine and hoses.
Pinion bearing failed at less than 2000 miles. Drivers side door mis-aligned. Bad seals at connections for tranmission coolin glines. Clunk when accel. From stop and shifting hard. Reoccurring noise in passenger side dashboard. Reoccurring fan type noise under hood. Reoccurring failure of exhaust gaskets.
Engine died while driving in st louis traffic approx 2 pm- traffic was light but if this occurred 10 mins earlier would have been on I 170 or 30 mins later on I 270 deal :er says :loose battery connection: sounds like a :loose" explanation to me as I did have warning flashers when ocurred. Am I driving a time bomb ??
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