general problems of the 2000 GMC Sierra

I have a 2000 GMC Sierra pickup truck. Today I experienced a total failure of the braking system; while coming up to a light on a street with a speed limit of 50 mph, I lost all braking ability and the parking brake was of no use. There was no accident (thank god) but after having the truck towed to a repair shop, a web search showed a recent article describing similar failures. Thought I should file a complaint before speaking with gm tomorrow morning.

I have a 2000 GMC Sierra pickup with disc brakes on all four wheels. The parking brake is a horseshoe shaped brake shoe that is to grab a brake drum designed into the rear wheel rotor. I have used the parking brake about five times( exaggerated) in the life of my truck. When the brake failed to hold I thought nothing of it, as I rarely used it. Recently on an unrelated repair I had occasion to remove and inspect my rear rotors. The brake shoe for the parking brake repositioned itself and has been rubbing on the brake drum portion of the rotor causing it to wear the lining of the drum . Very little wear occurred to the parking brake shoe. The design of the shoe its position on the drum created a basin wear particles accumulated inside the worn area of the drum creating even faster wear to the surface. After 180000 miles on my vehicle I have the original disc brake pads in relatively good shape and if I hadn't had the other repair to perform I would not have removed the dic brake rotor on the rear wheels to learn that about half of the drum material had been won through on one side and less so on the other side. I was not subject to recall 05042b (NHTSA action number ea04011) and I was not aware of the previous issue with the parking brakes. If I continued to use the vehicle in unadulterated manner my wheel rotor would wear through and the wheel fall off at a time of its own choosing. . I spoke with my local Chevrolet dealer and asked about applicable recalls regarding the parking brake on the pickups and he told me that he knew of no such issues.

Vehicle would not pass inspection because of parking brake failure. Talked to several mechanics who could identify the model, year and make of the vehicle as soon as I said parking brake - all stated that it was a very common problem, same with the wheel hub. Also air bag did not deploy when my son hit a deer with the vehicle.

Parking break failure on 2000 GMC Sierra pickup. There is a recall for the same vehicle type with manual transmissions (NHTSA recall #05v161000, gm recall number 05042) however the current recall does not include the vehicles sold with automatic transmissions even though they have the exact same parking brake design and the exact same parts used in the breaking system. My truck will not pass texas state inspection due to the parking break failure. The state inspection considers my truck unsafe. Nhtsa needs to make general motors fix this problem since the problem exists regardless of whether it is an automatic or manual transmission. I understand that with manual transmissions there is a greater chance for an injury to occur however, the vehicle state inspection in texas considers my vehicle unsafe shouldn't the NHTSA and gm?.

Contact stated parking brake never worked since he bought the truck. He had it repaired at ewing Buick GMC in 2004. Truck has an automatic transmission and there was a recall on the parking brake in the manual transmissions. No recall number was available. He felt that the repair work should be done on the parking brake of under the recall although this truck did have an automatic transmission, the parking brake in his automatic transmission never worked from the time he bought the vehicle new in 2000. He has spoken to GMC. They could not give him a reason as to why it was not covered under the recall. The dealer told the consumer that this was a common problem in both the automatic and manual transmissions.

The contact states there are two NHTSA recalls campaign #05v379000 and 05v161000 concerning the antilock brakes and the parking brake. This vehicle has the same problems as indicated in the recalls, but it is not included in the recalls due to VIN. Updated 12/27/2005 - the abs light has been on for about 6 months and there is no abs. The parking brake has not worked since the vehicle was purchased on 8/12/2003.

When I went in for oil change at 66,000 miles I was told the parking brakes were worn out. Since I do not use thes they must have been defective. Will replace when can make the 100 mile trip to dealer that found problem. Dealer where purchased would not other fix problems when vehicle was under warranty. Since I have purchased this vehicle new in March of 2000 the engine block was found to be cracked the transmission was defective and would slip at start almost hit three times before fixed, the driveshaft was bad the differiential was put in at wrong angle the back windows leaked air and water the gas pedal has been worked on twice is starting to stick again reported this toyou in Aug 2002 still no recall. Four pices of trim fell off air conditioner switch was replced twice heat sheild was installed wrong causing dash to vibrate. Clearly gm is making some very defective products. When the original dealer would not get problems repaired I asked gm for help I had to find a dealer to help me on my own. Most of these problems were fixed under extended warranty. Three of them are saty problems the trnsmission took over a year to get results and could have caused a accident any time gm knew of this. I now am getting a knock out of second engine. I will put down todays date because these problems occured over such a long time.

Consumer states that the parking brake has stopped working after only 18000 miles on the vehicle. Nlm.