Body problems of the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 1500

Vehicle was involved in a motor vehicle collision where this vehicle struck another in an offset head-on manner. The cab completely separated from the frame of this vehicle. The cab came to final rest on the roadway separated from the frame, with the bed remaining attached to the frame.

The contact owns a 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. While driving 40 mph, the spare tire disengaged from the vehicle onto the road without warning. The vehicle was not taken to be diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 247,000.

Evaporated system.

I started noticing rust spots on the body of the truck. Then I realized it was rusting out holes in the truck in certain areas. After I started noticing these spots, I was driving down the road towing my lawn equipment and heading to my next jobsite. When all the sudden I went to hit the brakes and nothing happened. The truck would not stop at all and course I was going down hill. So I started to try and slow down the truck by downshifting to a lower gear and was able to slow down a few miles per hour but not near enough. As I was coming around a curve not long after the brakes started failing. Not to far in front of me was stopped traffic. I tried to do everything I could to stop but it was not enough. I only slowed down to 45 mph before I was about to hit the back of a car head on. So I did the only other thing I could to maybe make it out without a fatal crash. I went off the road around the car and hit the parking brake and nothing happened because it failed as well. So I turned the truck real sharp to Dodge the trees and slid sideways for a while and the truck finally came to a stop and I was so sick I had a bad panic attack and started throwing up and my heart felt like it was being hit by a hammer and my body hurt so bad from the truck coming to a stop and me slamming into the arm rest and the seat belt cut my neck stomach and chest. I got out and looked at my truck and noticed I hit a pile of logs and damaged my tires and the body of my truck in the several places. Then I took it to a auto shop and they found out chevy didn't put any corrosive protection under the truck or on parts. The brake lines had blew out cause of the rust. All the brake lines were shot along with all the other brake parts and just about everything under the truck and outside the truck is solid rust. I could have got killed if I didn't react well. Now I pay for a truck I can't drive.

I was driving to alabama from florida. When I was about three hours out I was going down the road hauling a lot of personal items since I was in the middle of moving. It started storming real bad so I slowed down to 60 mph and as I was approaching another vehicle they all the sudden slammed on their brakes. I saw them as soon as they did it then I slammed on my brakes and the pedal went straight to the floor. I almost hit them but I turned sharp and went into the woods. I didn't hit anything but small trees so very little damage to outside of truck. Damage is still their because since the wreck I have not been able to work cause I destroyed my back and neck. After that I still had to drive the truck the rest of the three hour trip that ended up taking nine hours of extreme pain and shot nerves. Once I finally got home it took forever and a lot of money to half way fix the truck. Since you can't get replacement lines and had to have them custom made. Truck is still crap because now every single part of the brake system is shot along with the body and undercarriage. It is solid rust now and keeps braking down and will cost around three to five thousand at the cheapest to fix. If I would have known what I do now then I would have sued chevy and this worthless organization cause yall have known about this problem for a long time and did nothing. I think yall and chevy owe me and thousands of other people a lot of money. If you still do nothing I will go to every news organization or any other company or lawyer that will go after your company. You are here to protect people from things like this but all you have done is hope we all die. I will spend the rest of my life trying to shut you down and make every person that works for this crap organization responsible for every person that gets hurt or dies. Just do your job that's all I want.

Brake lines all rusted causing complete failure. . Rocker panels totally rotted out. .

Someone ran a red light and creamed into us at about 50-55 mph. The impact area was the passenger wheel well area and the impact was so violent that it smashed everything over and including the starter. . . Our air bags did not deploy and I always wondered if it was because the crash smashed the starter and had something to do with the gm recalls now. Both my son and I have never been the same after that crash and neither of us can even sleep in a bed from neck and back pain. . . We both had brain injuries and mine was rather severe where I lost my superior intelligence and photographic memory. . . And had severe language and speech problems. . . It was almost like I was dyslexic and I have never been the same. Both our health deteriorated since. . . I was told 'our air bags would have deployed' if it would have been a hard impact (which it was), since the man's car was totaled for how he hit us without ever braking or slowing down. . . Since the impact was the passenger wheel well area and corner bumper clear over to the driver side and even broke the starter, I wonder if the ignition did something to make the air bags not deploy. I always felt there was more to this accident, but no one would do anything for us. Now with all these gm recalls, I wonder if there was an issue with this accident. Can someone please let me know if our airbags should have deployed with such a violent crash and if when the crash broke the starter if it could have prevented the air bags from deploying? thank you so very much.

2nd owner of 2001 chevy silv 1500 - badly rusting undercarriage, rusted fuel tank hanger, rusted body/bed mounts, rusted off brake lines (had to be replaced $2k). Gm should perform recall for late model gm trucks 1999 thru 2005 for rust problems and replace all brake lines/fitting, etc. With stainless steel lines.