| NHTSA Complaint Number: 006086006 |
Incident Date: Oct, 12 2006 |
| Consumer's City: ALBUQUERQUE |
Consumer's State: NM |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO |
Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC |
| Model Name: COLORADO |
Model Year: 2005 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash:
Yes |
Component's Description: Parking brake |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire:
No |
Persons Injured: 1 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: 1GCCS196158 |
Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Nov, 20 2006 |
Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police:
No |
Purchase Date:
May, 12 2005 |
| Was Original Owner:
No |
Anti-lock Brakes:
No |
| Number of Cylinders: 5 |
Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed:
- |
Description of the Complaints:
2005 chevy colorado, emergency brake cable is hanging 3 inches, below the frame rail, a clearance of 11 inches. i caught a piece of rebar steel sticking up from a cattle quard on a dirt road, and my vehicles slammed to a stop, throwing me out of the drivers seat, and against the door on the passenger side, dislocating my shoulder, a putting my vehicle in the ditch, with damage, to the wind=deflector, fog lamp, dent in bumper. my phd. major is in construction equipment engineering, this routing of the emergency brake cable, in such a manner is an extremely poor design, a bad idea, and consistent with the use of intern level engineers that gm uses on lower priced production vehicles. i want my routing redesigned, and repaired, so that this does not happen again, just march your fat [xxx] out and take a look, at one of your colorado's for yourself, and you will see the emergency brake cable hanging down, below the frame rails, and measure the clearance for yourself, unloaded vehicles 11 in. loaded vehicle 7 in. tell me the name of the engineer, who is so [xxx] stupid. so, i know who's [xxx] to kick. *jb information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6). *tr
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