{"id":522554,"date":"2010-04-09T14:28:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004340"},"modified":"2010-04-09T14:28:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:28:22","slug":"nhtsa-investigating-possible-brake-problems-in-6-million-gm-trucks-suvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522554","title":{"rendered":"NHTSA Investigating Possible Brake Problems In 6 Million GM Trucks &amp; SUVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/chevsign-thumb-240x161-39127.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>NHTSA, fresh off its <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/04\/nhtsa-hits-toyota-with-163-million-penalty-for-sticky-pedal.html\" >$16 million smackdown on Toyota<\/a> is now investigating the company that booted Toyota from Consumerist&#8217;s Worst Company In America tournament &#8212; General Motor &#8212; for possible brake failure issues in millions of the company&#8217;s trucks and SUVs.<\/p>\n<p>According to an announcement from NHTSA, the defect involves potential brake line rupture in Chevy and GMC C\/K series pickups and SUVs for model years 1999 through 2003. That is a total of around 6 million vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>NHTSA says is has received 110 complaints, which include 3 crashes, regarding an alleged loss of braking effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>In their words now:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The complaints allege the loss of braking effectiveness due to brake line rupture because of corrosion. In 37 of these complaints, the brake line failure was confirmed by a dealer inspection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>FYI, right now GM is losing to Anthem BCBS in the Sweet 16 of <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/04\/worst-company-in-america-sweet-16-anthem-bcbs-vs-gm.html\" >Worst Company In America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-04-09\/gm-probed-by-u-s-for-brake-flaws-in-6-million-trucks-update1-.html\" >GM Probed By U.S. for Brake Flaws in 6 Million Trucks<\/a> [BusinessWeek]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHTSA, fresh off its $16 million smackdown on Toyota is now investigating the company that booted Toyota from Consumerist&#8217;s Worst Company In America tournament &#8212; General Motor &#8212; for possible brake failure issues in millions of the company&#8217;s trucks and SUVs. According to an announcement from NHTSA, the defect involves potential brake line rupture in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}