Brake Light On Problems of Chevrolet Astro

I am a licensed car dealer. I am very concerned at what I am seeing with my customers, with cars I see at the auctions, and with blog sites on the internet concerning chevy's ebcm computer module. At the auctions I am seeing at least 25% of Chevrolets and about 10% of fords coming through with brake and abs lights on. My main concern is with the chevy's ebcm. These very expensive units fail at the relay point on the printed circuit boards due to bad solder joints from the factory. When they fail, the driver gets a brake light and an abs indicator light on the dash. The brakes still work on the car, but they don't work as designed. In fact the driver gets a false sense of security because his car is stopping, but in a slippery situation it will not stop as designed. When I went to the internet for ideas to fix the problem, I am finding a lot of postings saying just take the bulb out of the dash! I am also seeing ads on e bay where you can send your ebcm to a repair station, they take it apart, and re solder the joints for $49. I called the chevy dealer and they want over $1000 to fix the problem! I have heard of people selling their vehicle as is and telling the buyer that it's ok. The brakes work. I can't get the light to shut off! this is a very dangerous situation and it will become more dangerous as more and more cars are driving with inoperative ebcm computers. It looks like the defect comes from having the computer directly attached to the frames near the transmission and they are taking all the shock and vibration in that area. I am asking the government to look into this problem and issue a recall notice for defective ebcm computers. I also feel this problem is far worse than the Dodge clock spring recall, and that effected all Dodge vehicles. This braking problem we are seeing is bad enough that it may cause a large loss of life.

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Abs and brake light comes on while driving.

Brake and abs lights come on intermittently, I had the code pulled at the auto parts store, it is the electronic abs control module and upon googling "Chevrolet brake abs lights" it came to my attention that their appears to be thousands of vehicles with faulty abs electronic modules which prevents the abs function from working.

Antilock braking system warning lights and brake light came on when I was entering the freeway. The lights continue to come on whenever I am driving. I had it checked at corning Chevrolet and was told the part alone was $900 plus labor to replace it. The brakes work, but not the antilock system installed by the manufacturer.

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On September 19, 2005, at slow speed the brakes failed and vehicle crashed into a pole. Took the vehicle to the dealer, and they said it was the same exact problems as stated in the the recall but at this time they awere not sure if this vehicle wa sincluded in the recall due to VIN. They said to contacted NHTSA too. This was the first time this had happened then the day I took it to the dealer it did it again. The dealer removed the wheel sensors and cleaned them. The brake pedal pulsated and there vibration in the pedal also. No brake lights came on.

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The abs light and brake light on the dash illuminated intermittently while the vehicle was in motion. This occurred again with another general motors vehicle that the consumer owns. No repair work had been made.

It started with my abs brake light coming on and staying on. Then I started to encounter anti lock pulsations when I slowed down and coming to a stop, some times I couldn't even stop when & where I wanted. Braking distance started being longer. Then some time later I felt as though someone stuck a brick under my brake pedal because no matter how hard I press, I guarantee you, I couldn't stop. Thank god no one was in front of me as I cruised on though the stop light! I was told that my abs sensors were slowly malfunctioning most likely due to corrosion, a proven design defect. Then my abs module will get shorted, and there is no fail/safe when it goes. I was told that when the module fails, hang on because I will crash. This scares me to death and I wont let anybody drive my van in case this happens when they are driving. Also when we want to take a trip I don't want to take my van because I'm afraid 6 to 8 people could get hurt and it would be on me. Every reason I bought this awd van is completely out the window. I cant sell it because of the brake problem. I'm stuck with a van that I cant use. I'm writing this because when I went to get the abs serviced I find out that I could write a complaint about the problem ( I didn't even know you could do that ) because something about a communication problem to the abs module since 1999. And that they recalled the chevy trucks that had the same problem years ago. I would think you would fix the vans before the trucks, because trucks don't carry a lot of people! they carry wood. When ever I drive this van now, I consider it a russian roulette. I cant afford the 2200. That was estimated to fix it. I have always believed in chevy, but I cant believe that I drive afraid every day. I cant believe that chevy knows about this problem.