Bulletins
| Bulletin | Bulletin date | Replacement Bulletin | Item no. | Summary | Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC - ANTILOCK | |||||
| 01657 | 01/01/2004 | 10006396 | Clarification of anti-lock braking system (abs)-related option codes. sit bulletin 1451252. *tt | 04/30/2004 | |
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC - ANTILOCK - ABS WARNING LIGHT | |||||
| PIC-5368 | 09/01/2010 | 10036084 | Chevrolet: abs/tcs light on and dtcs c1225/c0035 and/or c1226/c0040 due to aftermarket braided stainless steel brake lines. *pe | 03/09/2011 | |
Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SERVICE BRAKES | |||
| 06/03/2011 | 67000 | 1 | |
| I know i am not the 1st to report this same condition. you should have several 100 of us if not 1000's, who are experiencing abs failures which affects the traction control modules (also called electronic brake traction control model)( ebtcm) on all corvette's made from 97-2007 that i am aware of. we continue to experience the abs & traction control module failures and gm says they can't fix it due to lack of parts. my vehicle does not have the active handling system but others do and this has to be a safety concern for the nhtsa. you have 40,000 high performance corvette's on the road with electronic controls that do not work for the anti-lock brake systems, traction control, and active handling for stability control and no spare parts available from gm? how can that be? there is a 10% chance aftermarket companies who say they can repair these modules actually do. many people are spending $650 to $1200 to get them repaired and it's about a 10% success rate they get repaired. go to any corvette forums and you will see lots of data to support what i'm telling you. gm will never do anything about this unless nhtsa makes them. your best advantage point to do nothing is that most corvette owners are over the age of 40 and we drive these vehicles with respect to others on the road. i would prefer a repair capability not a 100% reengineered module so they can charge me $5000 for it when my vett is worth $10k. i hope this is the final data point to get some dialog from you to gm and see if there is any viable solution to these issues on the corvettes with their long history of abs control and traction control failures with no viable repair action from gm. *tr | |||
| 06/03/2011 | 67000 | ||
| I know i am not the 1st to report this same condition. you should have several 100 of us if not 1000's, who are experiencing abs failures which affects the traction control modules (also called electronic brake traction control model)( ebtcm) on all corvette's made from 97-2007 that i am aware of. we continue to experience the abs & traction control module failures and gm says they can't fix it due to lack of parts. my vehicle does not have the active handling system but others do and this has to be a safety concern for the nhsa. you have 40,000 high performance corvette's on the road with electronic controls that do not work for the anti-lock brake systems, traction control, and active handling for stability control and no spare parts available from gm? how can that be? there is a 10% chance aftermarket companies who say they can repair these modules actually do. many people are spending $650 to $1200 to get them repaired and it's about a 10% success rate they get repaired. go to any corvette forums and you will see lots of data to support what i'm telling you. gm will never do anything about this unless nhsa makes them. your best advantage point to do nothing is that most corvette owners are over the age of 40 and we drive these vehicles with respect to others on the road. i would prefer a repair capability not a 100% reengineered module so they can charge me $5000 for it when my vett is worth $10k. i hope this is the final data point to get some dialog from you to gm and see if there is any viable solution to these issues on the corvettes with their long history of abs control and traction control failues with no viable repair action from gm. | |||
| 11/26/2012 | 148000 | 1 | |
| Sitting idle, all warning lights illuminate on dash board, in dash display showsservice engine soon. made it home when smoke bellowed from under hood. abs module shorted out and started fire at module and wiring harness. thankfully, i am a body man and knew what to do by disconnecting the battery. if my wife was driving there would have been a full blown fire. my research shows, this is a very common problem with the 1997 to 2000 corvette with j 04 active brake control option. not only is there a fire possibility, the part manufacture has gone out of business in 2007, the module or harness and no longer available. due to the fire history of this part, no aftermarket company's will rebuild this unit. zero available new, very limited used (yards will only sell a totaled corvette as a rolling chasis). this leaves us corvette owners purchased for $50,000 new with a undrivable vehicle! local chevrolet dealers will not accept vehicle in the service dept. (we are sorry, but we cannot repair this vehicle. no parts are available). *tr | |||
| 11/26/2012 | 148000 | ||
| Sitting idle, all warning lights illuminate on dash board, in dash display showsservice engine soon. made it home when smoke bellowed from under hood. abs module shorted out and started fire at module and wiring harness. thankfully, i am a body man and knew what to do by disconnecting the battery. if my wife was driving there would have been a full blown fire. my research shows, this is a very common problem with the 1997 to 2000 corvette with j 04 active brake control option. not only is there a fire posibility, the part manufacture has gone out of business in 2007, the module or harness and no longer availble. due to the fire history of this part, no aftermarket company's will rebuild this unit. zero available new, very limited used (yards will only sell a tottaled corvette as a rolling chasis). this leaves us corvette owners purchased for $50,000 new with a undrivable vehicle! local chevrolet dealers will not accept vehicle in the service dept. (we are sorry, but we cannot repair this vehicle. no parts are available). | |||
| 10/26/2011 | 160000 | 1 | |
| The abs/traction control malfunction and will not enable. *tr | |||
| 09/15/2012 | 105000 | 1 | |
| I slammed on my brakes and my abs brakes failed, my car could not stop and i narrowly missed hitting the car in front of me. i had my car diagnosed at john l sullivan chevrolet and was told that my abs electronic brake control module failed and there are no replacement parts available from the dealer or aftermarket. i went online to the corvetteforum.com and found out that there are hundreds of corvette owners with the same problem. there are no fixes for this. i couldn't believe that gm could not address this issue and have parts available. this problem includes corvettes manufactured from 1998-2004. i would like to know what it takes to make this a recall issue. this is a serious issue and i'm afraid to let my family drive my car. *tr | |||
| 10/26/2011 | 160000 | 1 | |
| The abs/traction control malfunction and will not enable. *tr | |||
| 09/15/2012 | 105000 | 1 | |
| I slammed on my brakes and my abs brakes failed, my car could not stop and i narrowly missed hitting the car in front of me. i had my car diagnosed at john l sullivan chevrolet and was told that my abs electronic brake control module failed and there are no replacement parts available from the dealer or aftermarket. i went online to the corvetteforum.com and found out that there are hundreds of corvette owners with the same problem. there are no fixes for this. i couldn't believe that gm could not address this issue and have parts available. this problem includes corvettes manufactured from 1998-2004. i would like to know what it takes to make this a recall issue. this is a serious issue and i'm afraid to let my family drive my car. *tr | |||
| 09/15/2012 | 105000 | ||
| I slammed on my brakes and my abs brakes failed, my car could not stop and i narrowly missed hitting the car in front of me. i had my car diagnosed at john l sullivan chevrolet and was told that my abs electonic brake control module failed and there are no replacement parts available from the dealer or aftermarket. i went online to the corvetteforum.com and found out that there are hundreds of corvette owners with the same problem. there are no fixes for this. i couldn't believe that gm could not address this issue and have parts available. this problem includes corvettes manufactured from 1998-2004. i would like to know what it takes to make this a recall issue. this is a serious issue and i'm afraid to let my family drive my car. | |||
| SERVICE BRAKES, AIR - ANTILOCK - WHEEL SPEED SENSOR | |||
| 10/16/1997 | 1 | 10/09/1997 | |
| Wheel sensor failed. *yc | |||
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC | |||
| 12/30/2003 | 45000 | 1 | 06/25/1999 |
| While driving on a straight road at approx. 55 mph the active handling came on and jerked the car hard to the right. it went in the ditch but hit nothing. when i looked at the computer display it said service active handling.*ak | |||
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC - ANTILOCK | |||
| 09/05/2002 | 30 | 06/11/2000 | |
| Sometimes. after turning into an intersection, the abs engage and slows the vehicle to 5 mph and there is oncoming traffic. *jb | |||
| 07/13/2001 | 1 | ||
| The car was on the freeway at 70mph when the anti skid light came on and the car suddenly decelerated to 15mph. several attempts were made to correct the problem to no avail. *ak | |||
| 06/23/2000 | 1 | 08/01/1999 | |
| Service column lock was displayed on the drivers information center, which stoped the steering wheel from being turned. the front rotors warped at 7000 miles, i had them turned, but they warped again and will have to be returned to make them smooth ref. in ea02-031 *cjs | |||
| 03/27/2000 | 5 | ||
| Abs sensor light kept coming on. vehicle ha dbeen in dealer's shop on five occasions, and problem is still occurring. feel free to provide further details. *ak | |||
| 11/01/1998 | 3 | 06/01/1998 | |
| I find it simply amazing that after 7k miles the brakes pulsated and the rotors were warped at 13k and now at 18k miles, mall chevrolet (in cherry hill) is always where it is serviced, claims the brake pads are worn and that is what is causing the pulsating. i am not able to file a lemon law since the car just turned 18k miles. but i would have someone look into the rotors & brake pads placed on these vehicles.! *ak | |||
| 07/01/1998 | 3 | 10/01/1997 | |
| Started to experience a vibration in the front end upon application of brakes at approximately 5000 miles. this condition continued to occur. the front brake rotors were resurfaced at 8678 miles. this was a temporary solution. by 15000 miles the same condition returned, front end vibration causing the steering wheel to shake when applying the brakes. this was very noticable at freeway speeds. the dealer replaced the front rotors at 15613 miles. at around 20,000 miles this condition returned, front end vibration steering wheel shake when brakes applied. once again the front rotors were resurfaced. they do not seem to grasp the fact that this is not correcting the problem. in addition to the front rotors there have been two occasions that upon hard (emergency) type braking the abs system did not appear to function correct. on both occasions there was an excessive amount of brake release which nearly caused an collison. *ak | |||
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC - FOUNDATION COMPONENTS - DISC | |||
| 09/16/1998 | 1 | 01/01/1997 | |
| In each failure of the rotor assembly, the vehicle began to vibrate terribly upon trying to stop and this usually is noticable at 15 mph. the dealership is terrific in attempting to repair the problem and the service manager at sewell is the best ever...very attentive and concerned with this continous failure. i do not drive fast and as you can see, the vehicle is seldom driven accumulating only approximately 21,000 miles in 3 years but the rotor assembly fails at almost 7,000 miles each time starting with originaly equipment and the replacement parts also fail each time the problem is attempted to resolution. steering is difficult when failure occurs and the vehicle vibrates. | |||
| 11/01/1998 | 3 | 06/01/1998 | |
| I find it simply amazing that after 7k miles the brakes pulsated and the rotors were warped at 13k and now at 18k miles, mall chevrolet (in cherry hill) is always where it is serviced, claims the brake pads are worn and that is what is causing the pulsating. i am not able to file a lemon law since the car just turned 18k miles. but i would have someone look into the rotors & brake pads placed on these vehicles.! *ak | |||
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC - FOUNDATION COMPONENTS - DISC - ROTOR | |||
| 12/27/2002 | 5000 | 2 | 06/15/1998 |
| Purchased car new.at about 5000miles started to notice vibaration in steering wheel when brakes were applied . at about 10000miles vibration was severe under hard braking.dealer[jon hall chevrolet] determined all 4 rotors were warped and resurfaced at no charge.at about 15000 miles started to notice vibration again.car now has 22000 miles is out of warrantee and vibration is again severe under hard braking. i would like a general motors representative to look into this problem. dealer informed me this was a common problem with 1998 models.i beleive this is a serious safety defect which could result in an accident during high speed [60-70mph] braking and a recall should be issued to replace what is an obvious design defect. | |||
| 2 | 01/01/2000 | ||
| Filed a complaint with gmc that rotors keep warping but they claim there's nothing wrong with the rotors. *ak | |||
| 10/01/1999 | 1 | 12/01/1997 | |
| Vehicle shakes when brakes are applied because rotors are warped. yh | |||
| 09/05/1998 | 1 | 12/28/1997 | |
| Rotors were resurfaced. yh | |||
| 12/10/1998 | 1 | 05/01/1998 | |
| Brake rotors failed. *yc | |||
| 07/01/1998 | 3 | 10/01/1997 | |
| Started to experience a vibration in the front end upon application of brakes at approximately 5000 miles. this condition continued to occur. the front brake rotors were resurfaced at 8678 miles. this was a temporary solution. by 15000 miles the same condition returned, front end vibration causing the steering wheel to shake when applying the brakes. this was very noticable at freeway speeds. the dealer replaced the front rotors at 15613 miles. at around 20,000 miles this condition returned, front end vibration steering wheel shake when brakes applied. once again the front rotors were resurfaced. they do not seem to grasp the fact that this is not correcting the problem. in addition to the front rotors there have been two occasions that upon hard (emergency) type braking the abs system did not appear to function correct. on both occasions there was an excessive amount of brake release which nearly caused an collison. *ak | |||
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC - FOUNDATION COMPONENTS - MASTER CYLINDER | |||
| 03/01/1998 | 1 | 03/01/1998 | |
| Internal piston in the brake cylinder failed. mjs | |||