2006 GMC Sierra 1500: brake failure

Filed Sep 4, 2015 · Brakes · 130,000 miles · NJ

Pulling out of driveway and brakes gave out.. Stepped on the brakes and truck did not stop. A rusty brake line was leaking. It it had a split in it. Do to rust anand corrosion. This same thing has happened to my father's 03 silverado a few years back. Why has this been an issue with no recall. I had a kia spectra for 15 years and never had problems with rusty brake lines leaking... It's a truck they should be built to last.. Smh not happy..

Filed Dec 29, 2014 · Brakes · 29,450 miles · MA

My 2006 gmc has only 29,000 miles on it. I bought the truck in october 2009 with 16,000 miles. I keep the truck clean inside and out, top to bottom including under the vehicle. People comment to me all the time on how nice the truck looks. Brake line let go in yard. Pedal went to the floor, no brakes had to hit reverse then neutral and the emergency brake. I had just returned home from going up town. Thank god it happened where it did. I have been driving 40 years and only replaced one brake line in a 11 year old ford truck and that was just a section near a bend. This truck needs to have all the lines replaced. I just replaced all the transmission lines 4 months ago for $800.00. Same thing, all rusted. I lived in massachusetts my whole life and I do my best to keep the salt off the truck. Last time I ever seen rust issues this bad was in the 1970s when cars would start rusting out after 3 years because of the reused steel that came from overseas.

Filed Nov 16, 2014 · Brakes, Wheels · 187,300 miles · FL · crash · 1 injury

I wake up early on sunday, on 11/16/15 and took a company truck a 2006 gmc sierra 1500, to bring some cargo. On my way back home on 836 west expressway, I took my exit and when press the brake pedal to reduce speed, the pedal went to the floor of the car and the brake action was minimum to nothing. Another vehicle was stop at the traffic light, and to avoid the obvious impact to the stopped car, I pumped the brakes several times and applied the parking brakes at approx. 30 MPH. Seeing no way to avoid the collision, I pull the car to the side of the road and hit a concrete water drain, resulting in abruptly sopping of my car and my knee hit the lower dashboard. The guy of the other car went out and ask me, are you "drunk" "are you ok" I called a flatbed and bring my truck to my work place and then notice that a brake line was broke and most of the brake fluid spilled all over the front of the chassis, under the radiator. The brake line was incredible rusted, reason for the brake down, I had cars with a lot more years with no problem with brake lines. When I inspect the other brake lines deeply, noticed that an excessive corrosion was in all of them. Gmc should do something about this, safety issue, is no reason for a 2006, only 8 years vehicle, present that level of corrosion on brake lines. "coke can thickness apparently" . Somebody will die or seriously injure, or will kill somebody, pedestrian or driver because the sudden brake failure in a case like this. I will bring the vehicle to a garage to replace the broken line and probably all of them.. Its ridiculous, and very dangerous that this things happens in a vehicle that age. I really appreciate to bring this case to the proper attention of the manufacturer in order to avoid more incidents like mine.I consider myself very lucky,.could not be writing this if this happens to me at a high speed. Thanks.

Filed Jul 1, 2014 · Brakes · 73,268 miles · PA

While slowing to make a turn I applied the brakes and had a sudden and complete loss of brakes. Had I not been on a suburban road or in traffic or a high speed highway the situation could have been catastrophic and resulted in a crash. I was near my repairing garage and managed to get the vehicle there by using the emergency brake and low speed. It was less than a mile. I had this repaired at a cost of $849.27. Just yesterday (6-30-2014) I was parked on a hill and as I released the parking brake my foot suddenly went to the floor and I experienced a second loss of brakes due to failure of the remaining two brake lines. I was on a hill and had only a tiny amount of braking power. The vehicle is at the garage and the cost of this repair has yet to be determined. They will replace the remaining two brake lines. I recently had to replace the transmission cooling lines which ruptured and are located in a nearby location on the vehicle. All are exposed and un-shielded. The manufacturer advertises that the vehicle is "professional grade" and "heavy duty" but I find both these claims to be great exaggerations. These situations have scared me and I desire to acquire a different vehicle as soon as I am able. Unfortunately, this will not be soon. I will have to drive with the fear that another potentially catastrophic problem could develop at any moment. Fortunately, neither of these incidents were panic stops.

Filed Oct 7, 2013 · Brakes · 87,000 miles · OH

I was driving down a hill and applied the brakes and the brake pedal went all the way to the floor. There was no resistance to the brake pedal at all. The brakes functioned properly when I stopped at a stop sign, then when I was going down the hill the brake line broke.