Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES - HOOD - LATCH | |||
| 10/29/2000 | 06/01/1998 | ||
| As i was entering florida i had just pased several cars and trucks at about 7 pm sunday night . i was relaxing and pulled my left foot back to the seat when i bumped the hood release with my foot. the hood imediatly opened all the way back to the wind shield. i immediatel started watching the road beside the truck, put on my turn signal . the man behind me saw what had happened and flashed his lights at me and slowed down the trafic behinde me so i could safely pull off the road. luckily we were not hurt and the windshield did not get broken. i had a strap with me that i used to hold down the hood so we were able to proseed to our destination. i called the local gmc dealer to see if there was a recall on hood latch, and they said there was not. i went to the dealership to get an estimate. i then went to the chevy dealer to check on a new truck, and found that in 2000 they changed the hood latch to a stile that could not come all the way open the way mine did. the release lever is still in the same place and can be cought by your foot and cause the hood to unlatch, but with the new safety that is part of the hood latch it can not open all the way. i can not beleave that there has been noone else that has had this happen to them and that they would have changed the latch in 2000 unless they had problems. i did not trust the truck anymore thinking of how easily we could have been killed if the conditions had been diferent, so i traded it in on a 97 ford f150 before i left. i had called the gmc hotline and reported this to them. they said that they would put it in my records. i have contacted an atturney who said if i can find if more people have had this problem that he would consider a class action sute aginst gmc for this problem. it could have been eliminated by simply putting a shield over the inside release so your foot could not catch it. when i returned to michigan i was talking to a friend who said that he's poping the hood on his chevrolet | |||
| 10/29/2000 | 06/01/1998 | ||
| Dd (tiresize: 265-75-r16) (tiresize: 265-75-r16)( dot number: tire size: 265-75-r16 ) | |||
| LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES - TAILGATE - LATCH | |||
| 05/05/2000 | 2 | 12/01/1995 | |
| The tailgate latch will not unlock the tailgate. the windshield wipers will not work, or will only work on high speed. will sometimes work if turned to high first then to low speed. while starting to move from a stop sign the drivers seat broke from the adjustment rails, allowing the seat to fall to the rear, resulting in not being able to control the vehicle. | |||