Ten problems related to service brakes have been reported for the 2000 Chevrolet 1500. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
Typical gm product, rear bumper rust out, brake likes rusted completely out, rear cross members, fuel tank cross member has rusted out completely on passenger side where the shock mounts to and the same for the rear crommm member where the shock mounts to on the driver side. I mean the fuel tan cross member holds the tank in place and if that tank dropps then I'd assume that it would be a safety issue. Atleast I hope so.
My anti-lock brakes would kick in when I would slow down almost to a stop. They would not let me stop. No warning lights were on and my brake system has been working great. Is there a recall on this problem, seems to happen to a lot of chevy owners?.
At low speed when you apply the brakes it feels like the abs system activates causing the truck not to stop until you pump the brakes.
Abs brakes come on at slow speeds on dry pavement.
When I went to slow down to make turn for home, pedal went to floor and truck would not stop, I was able to pull it down in gear and make turn, I then drifted to stop and used parking break to stop vehicle. This could have been drastic because I did have my 3 year old in car seat in back. The break line that runs across front of vehicle to supply passenger side front break had split and most of my brake fluid was gone. I though cars had a back up system to prevent this, but my pedal went to floor and would not pump up. At most the vehicle may have slowed a little, but a complete failure is ridiculous.
While driving on south miniville road in prince william county va, the brake peddle went from working fine and then straight to the floor. Its was lucky that traffic was light because I wouldn't have been able to stop. This is very common problem with these trucks and something chevy should be responsible for fixing.
Some friends borrowed my 2000 chevy silverado to haul some sheet rock headed down to hardware store and ended up calling me with a smoking engine told them to bring it back to the house. My buddy said the brakes didn't stop all that good on the way over and went right to the floor looking under the hood I had him push the brakes and fluid shot out of the break lines running along the body frame they look all corroded in one location and one of them burst. We are fortunate the only ran to the hardware store and not on the highway it could of ended very badly.
The transmission in this vehicle is a total piece of junk. There are many, many vehicles with this same transmission. It locked up slinging the driver into the steering wheel and windshield. This broke the bolts holding the seat to the frame. The cost to fix was over 1200 dollars. I've talked with several transmission shops, each one is in business due to the fact that this transmission is defective. They repair or replace more of these than all other times 400. It appears that this problem has been a problem since first being used. It also appears that no one is being held accountable for the repairs and/or deaths, injury that is being caused by this defective unit. It's oindtalled in millions of vehicles worldwide. When is something going to be done ? when is someone going to be held accountable ? stop this madness, please ! the time it's taked me to fill out the form, dozens of people were injured due to the above statement.
Applied brakes to stop initally started to stop and then peddle went to floor and could not stop until another 50 feet or so.
When I turn left into a parking spot the abs system goes on (even on dry surfaces where there is no slipping) and the vehicle doesn't stop as quickly as it should. This has happened many times.