General Motors Under Investigation For Faulty Brake Pumps
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On top of everything, General Motors is in the crosshairs of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The U.S. federal agency has opened an investigation into pickup trucks and SUVs made by the Detroit automaker from 2014 through 2016. An estimated 2.7 million GM vehicles could be affected. The cars could suffer from faulty brake pumps.
The agency’s investigation includes the Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra, Chevrolet Suburban, Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Yukon, and Cadillac Escalade. So far, there have been 111 consumer complaints filed with the NHTSA. There’ve been nine crashes and two reported injuries so far related to the faulty brake pumps.
The NHTSA says a brake vacuum pump could deteriorate. This could subsequently cause stopping distances and braking effort to increase, potentially leading to crashes, injuries, and deaths. Right now, the agency is investigating to determine how widespread the problem is. This will help decide if a recall is required. General Motors is assisting with the investigation while monitoring complaints and warranty claims, according to GM Spokesperson Tom Wilkinson.
Without a recall, owners who experience brake problems who take their vehicle to a General Motors dealership or independent repair shop should keep their receipts. If there is a recall, they could receive reimbursement for the repair.
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I was having this problem I thought I needed to change my breaks, before I schedule the visit I received the letter from GMC.
Guess what? I went to my dealer and they said my car did not have the problem even thou I knew it did. they said they looked at it, never gave me the documents the computers were “down”, and the problem ” disappeared” after 1 months guess what its back! I dislike my dealer very much now.
What model car is it
I have a 2016 Chevy malibu and just found out the vacuum pump exploded. They couldn’t give me a reason why. You better investigate the malibu 2016 cars too. I just went out of warranty. This is a very costly part to replace
My 2011 F150 had an electric vacuum pump which, of course failed. They replaced it free. Then they went to driving the pump off something rotating on the engine. Had problems there when the pump seized and broke the sacrificial drive piece.
Now they’re using some kind of Venturi device to create vacuum, the results of its success are unknown, too new.
I guess the bottom line is automotive vacuum pumps are a beeach to design and have last. So, Chevys not the only one, Fords in the swim pool with them, and there may be others….
Vacuum sensor for some unforeseen reason just snapped off destroying my vacuum pump which dropped pieces into my engine destroying my camshaft. 18000 miles off warranty around $6000 to replace…. bought my 2016 Malibu because my 2008 had very little problems and 350000 miles on it. My 2016 has had nothing but problems including my transmission that was just replaced not even a year ago.
I’m having the same issue with my 2016 Malibu for the second time. Vacuum pump and sensor were replaced September 2020 (170k miles). The new pump failed again May 2021(189K miles)! The part is still under warranty, so at least I didn’t have to pay again. But I’ve been in a rental until they can order the part! I wish I could post the pictures of the failed part. Both times the part that going into the engine shattered and all the pieces has to be removed!
Got a 2017 malibu LT nice car but coming down a Mountain today my brak pedal got relly hard taking the car into a dealer relly soon lucky I got another car but I got no Vacuum to my brakes luckily I didn’t get into An accident
I owned a 2015 Buick regal with the turbocharged ecotec engine. My vacuum pump broke apart where it connects to the exhaust cam. Causing my engine to destroy itself. The car was only 3 years old with 115,000 kms on it GM refused to do anything about it. And lied by saying they did not have any records of the car every being serviced. Which I know they had as it had been in for a new oil pan gasket 2 months prior, the lady at the time mentioned it was replaced once before down in Washington DC. I ended up having to spend 6,578.00 in total to have the engine replaced with a low milage used one.
Good afternoon Mrs. Barra,
My name is LaChantris Miller and I am contacting you in the hopes of not only recovering fees that I had to pay for repairs to my 2017 Chevy Malibu but towing and suffering. But also I feel as though there should a fund or recall for the issue because this is going to kill someone. On 07/10/2021 at around 10am I was going to pick up a birthday cake for my son for his birthday party. I was coming down the street an my car started to make a loud noise then all of a sudden as I am turn back into my complex my breaks completely went out. The break pedal became hard, I could not force it down to stop. I literally has to hit a curb an coast to a stop. I called my warranty company to try and get some assistance and they sent me to Petboys here in Memphis. But because it was now after 12 noon I couldn’t get a rent a car to make it to my sons birthday party because they all was now closed. Petboys let me know that they was completely booked an they couldn’t get to me until Tuesday. So I was without a car for 4 days. So, I googled what was going with my car and I pulled up countless of other people that has had near death situations with the same vehicle same description of what happened to me. So Im asking myself why haven’t a recall be put in place? So, now it’s Tuesday morning I have to pay for a tow truck and get my car towed to the shop. Then the shop calls, and further tells me exactly what countless of other people has said that has happened to them. The vacuum pump on the brakes shattered and metal parts was thrown all around the motor. The exact same thing. So now Im out 700.00 for repairs to petboys 100.00 for towing. Stress and aggravation because this is happening on my sons birthday. We was literally almost killed in one of your cars and this could’ve been avoided. Because there are at least 30 people online that has near misses with their brakes locking up in snow on ice on the expressway just driving the freaking car when you all should have been done something. So, now we come to the fun part because I have time today. Your opportunity to find out or listen to countless of complaints about the same exact thing could have killed my family and I an I pissed off that I have to beg an borrow money to get my car towed an repaired. Im on a very small fixed income. I don’t have nearly 1,000 dollars just laying around. To hear my kids screaming in fear because I could not stop the car was very traumatic for my kids and on my son’s birthday. I want not only every single Penney I had to pay out but for the trauma that this ordeal has caused my kids. Also I want a recall placed so that no one will ever has to be caught off guard like I was an killed. Also compensation for all the other victims that has had to suffer from this continued mechanical problem or I will contact each and everyone of them an fill a class action lawsuit with a very well known attorney here in Memphis that would love this case. I will take this to ever news station in Memphis and post this on every single social media outlet. Because again if something is not done now and no one takes this seriously someone is going to killed. I called you customer service and spoke with Anna and she was very sweet but she held me on hold for an hour waiting on a supervisor to talk with at which time she told me that I could not be transfered because no supervisor was available. Unacceptable.