Consumer Complaint Detail

CHEVROLET / S10 / 1999

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0 Injured
Investigations
0 Death
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No Fire
Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 004285155 Incident Date: Jun, 07 2004
Consumer's City: JONESVILLE Consumer's State: MI
Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC
Model Name: S10 Model Year: 1999
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Electrical system
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: 1GCCS1444XK Date added to File: May, 25 2021
Date Complaint Received: Jun, 20 2004 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Jul, 26 1999
Was Original Owner: Yes Anti-lock Brakes: No
Number of Cylinders: 4 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: 1. while driving the truck at aproximately 65 mph with the cruise control and air conditioner on, but no radio the truck just died while i was in the outer lane of the highway. no noise, it just lost power and died. i manged to get the truck into the other lane and off the highway as it slowed down luckely with out injury to myself, my passanger or anyone else on the highway. 2. on a truck with no more then 48,362 miles i experienced transmission failure. according to the mechanic the transmission pump exploded with no apparent cause. all parts on the truck appear to be in new condition even though the vehical is 5 years old. several of the original stickers from the factory are still visable with no sign of ware. i have all maintaince records on the truck available to show it has been properly maintained. the transmission flued and filter where not scheduled for maintaince until 50,000 miles. 3. the transmission had to be replaced on the truck and i have saved the old parts for examination. the mechanic noted that the original part was reordered but had been changed by the manufacture to a new part # due to problems with the old. transmission parts where replaced with new general motors parts. *ak