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My brakes failed at 3500 miles on my 2019 Silverado. The dealer performed an update #N192268091 on the vehicle and told me that this had an 80 percent chance of taking care of the brakes not failing in the future, leaving a 20 percent chance that they will fail again. This to me is unacceptable to me and my family. Now when I drive this vehicle I get chest pains and just don't want it anymore. Please help me!
On January 22, 2020 I started the vehicle with using the mychevrolet phone app. I got into the truck and pushed the ignition button. The following three warnings appeared on the instrument panel: 1) brake system failure 62 mph top speed, 2)service trailer brake system, 3) service ESC ABS, brake, traction control, and check engine lights illuminated. I turned the vehicle off and turned it back on again using the ignition button and all warnings and lights cleared except the check engine remained illuminated. The vehicle was parked when all of this happened. I received an email from onstar reporting that an issue with the antilock braking system was detected. This vehicle had just been into the dealer the prior week to fix one recall associated with the battery cable, and two other recalls associated with the brakes.
Turned on truck and got multiple messages, "service ESC" and "brake system failure - speed limited to 62 mph." Braking was extremely limited - even at hardest effort, truck struggled to come to a complete stop. Truck has 6700 miles and also brake pads are reporting 14%/18% life left which is innacurate based on amount of driving.
I was in the parking lot at a grocery store in motion pulling out of a parking spot and my brakes and steering got very hard. I had to mash the brake pedal as hard as I could to get the truck to stop. It was hard to steer as well. There was lots of error messages and lights on. Service ESC, top speed 62mph, service trailer brake. Had to wait 30 minutes and start truck. It runs now but check engine light is on. This is the second time this has happened. This first time I was in a drive thru and had to push the truck out of the way. If this happened on the highway or a busy street it could be deadly. I am not comfortable driving this truck anymore.
- Kerrville, TX, USA
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Started the vehicle and dash flashed: Brake failure, ESC failure, do not exceed 62 mph, trailer brake failure. Vehicle had previously been serviced for brake pad wear issue, though the erroneous readings remain (55% front pads left @ 4000 miles). All lights cleared, I continued to drive, had no power assist whatsoever on brakes, very difficult to stop. Service engine light remains on.
The contact owns a 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. The contact stated that while driving at 40 mph, the brake pedal was depressed and went to the floorboard. The brake pedal was pumped several times to stop the vehicle. The brakes warning light was illuminated. The vehicle was towed to freedom Chevrolet 13483 I-10 West, san antonio, tx 78249, (210)- 697-6078 to be inspected. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and informed of the failure. The failure mileage was 42,250.
Out of nowhere multiple warning lights illuminated. ESC, brake system failure, trailer brake failure, do not go over 62 mph. Brakes were near non functioning.
Started my vehicle and the following messages came up immediately: Brake system failure 62 mph top speed, service ESC, and service trailer brake system. Other lights were illuminated on the dash, such as check engine, ESC, ABS and parking brake. Without turning off the vehicle, I thought it was important to get the vehicle to the dealer immediately as for them to see the vehicle in it's current state. While driving to the dealer the brakes where not fully functional. I would press the brake fully down and it would coast to a stop. Depending on the speed would determine how far it would coast before it would stop. It was a very scary situation. Brake pedal had pressure but the brakes would not start to active until fully pressed. Even then the stop was very slow and would coast. Example, driving out of my office drive to the man road at 5-10mph it coasted a good 30-60 ft. Once the pedal was fully engaged. Vehicle has 667 miles.
Purchased new vehicle with less than 4,000 miles was running fine when parked. When it was cranked to go home listed ESC failure, service steering column lock, trailering system failure, lane departure disabled, speed limited to 60 mph. I was able to get home, but the brakes were so hard that it was extremely difficult to stop. Local dealer it was purchased through "fixed it" less than 1,500 miles later I'm having the same issue! obd has the codes C0021, C0021, P25A2, P25A2, P0606. I do not feel safe driving this truck! if that issue were to happen approaching an intersection I would have no way of stopping in time. Ridiculous.
5 times since I purchased this truck one month ago; shortly after turning on, shifting into gear and starting to move the following displays on the dash 'service ESC, service parking break, flashing orange check engine light', there may have been other lights too but those ones have been there every time. Usually it resets after stopping and turning the car off and on. The ride however is very jerky until I am able to do so and this is not a safe operation condition if there is not a quick and easy place to stop to reset. I have tried to have onstar pull the codes rice but they were not been able to do so in time and they tell me there is no problem when they connect to the onboard diagnostics. It appears they can't see history, only active codes. There was a brake recall on this truck that was supposedly reprogrammed before I took delivery but I suspect that the 'software fix' may not have been successful. In hindsight, my salesman also seemed like he may have been aware of this issue but didn't tell me about it. I say this because the day after I picked it up I noticed that front brake pad life indicated only 68% remaining which seemed low for a 'new' truck that had 2500 miles (had been dealer courtesy vehicle). His response when he tried to clarify was something along the lines of 'and you want me to have them look at the warning about the brakes?', in retrospect that response indicates to me that he may have had an awareness of this problem that I had not yet experienced and was not what I was asking about at the time. He never seemed to understand what I was getting at about the brake pad life when I reexplained so I eventually decide just to forget about it and resigned to the fact that I may have to put new brake pads on this truck before the lease is up in 39 months.
On the dashboard got ABS, brake, engine, tc lights and brakes stopped working, very very poor quality, higher speed 62mph. When I checked with obd reader, got 3 codes and 2 of those codes are tied together with brakes system. When this happened I was driving to work
Brake system failure vehicle speed limited to 100 kph ecs failed. Brake recall and seat belt recall performed Dec 28 2019 error trailer brake requires service never towed with this vehicle resolve pending vehicle as at a local dealer. 4160 kilometer on vehicle
Vehicle brakes were mushy and the check engine symbol displayed on the dash as was the symbol for steering ( wavy lines under a car picture), also these three codes were scrolling on the dash: Brake system failure 62 mph top speed, service trailer brake system, service ESC. These issues repeated on three separate occasions. Each time I took it to a Chevrolet authorized dealership repair shop where I was told the issue was resolved. Two different shops were used for three " repairs". the issues came up after I started the vehicle by putting my foot on the brake and pressing the start button. The codes began scrolling each time, and the brakes were not firm/ not normal.
Reduced ability to brake my truck almost caused accident.. warning light popped up ABS, brake, traction control with warnings going across dash like brake system failure 62 mph top speed, service trailer brakes. Codes C0021 P0606, & P25A2. Had update for this problem a couple weeks ago and it was suppose to fix this the dealership said over the phone when called today. Never had this problem before.I am pretty sure that update just updates the messaging letting the driver know he or she is about to die. Taking it into dealer later today. Zf TRW integrated brake control (ibc) had early manufacturing issue leaving metal shaving in the units. These shaving would score the walls and damage units, no ones investigating this issue because it would cost GM too much to replace all ibcs in every truck during early stages of the T1 launch. TRW knows of this issue and has piles of these sitting on engineers desks. There needs to be a recall on all early production T1 truck to replace these ibcs. GM has only been replacing these on a case by case bases when someone reports this problem and their VIN number falls within TRW suspected problem dates. By this time its too late and can cause an accidents.
After remote start mychev app vehicle stationary four dash messages service ESC service trailer brake brake system failure - 62 mph top speed steering assist reduced drive with care lights on dash that were illuminated ABS check engine brake traction control tried to drive. Brakes and steering limited could not drive unsafe turned off ignition restarted threw five codes including P0606 C0021 P25A2 called onstar, they said all systems showing failed take to dealer called GM- they said to have it towed remote start again- same messages dealer appt tomorrow.
2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. Consumer writes in regards to defective brakes. The consumer stated the braked became inefficient at parking lot speeds causing 2 crashes.
On the evening oif 1/11/20, I went to the parking lot and started my truck and multiple warnings came up on the info center for the brakes - brake system failure max speed 62mph; service trailer brake system; service ESC. Check engine light was also illuminated. I turned the truck off, restarted it and received the same message. I was able to slowly drive the truck the three miles to my house with very limited braking capability. When my husband went out to check the truck 15 minutes later, the brakes had returned but the check engine light was still illuminated. I took the vehicle to a local dealer first thing Monday morning and was advised today that they diagnosed a premature failure of the master cylinder. This after the software update in the previous recall had been completed approximately two weeks prior. The service adviser noted this has been a common issue after the software update and has been happening across the country. I believe this needs to be a nationwide recall if the current software update is causing the master cylinder to fail at this rate.
Started the truck up and the check engine light, ABS, brake, traction control lights were all on with a message in the center brake system failure. Limped vehicle to the dealership to have worked on. The braking system is working at about 10%. I am not the only person that this has happened to GM need to recall these trucks and get them fixed before someone dies
ABS, ESC, trailer braking system continues to fail. I have had it in the shop three times for this defect. The truck has had 5 recalls, one for the seatbelt, four for the brakes. I drive a lot of miles in rough conditions and do not feel safe in this vehicle. My warranty is up in about 7000 and I don't want to be stuck with this unsafe vehicle.
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- Kalamazoo, MI, USA