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2001 Chev Tahoe Parking Brake

Tom Greenleaf on Tue December 07, 2004 1:52 AM User is offline

Year: 2001
Make: Chev
Model: Tahoe
Engine Size: only V8
Refrigerant Type: N/A
Ambient Temp: N/A
Country of Origin: United States

A family members car. Rear parking brakes uses a band/drum style brake inside rotor. The left side retaining clip is asymmetrically opposite and can't be made to work. It's fixed now but the problem was there from new! Anyone have this trouble out there? Found the parking cable's adjusted to it's max - dealer must have done this as it was bought new.

Spoke to GM about a system that can't be made to work and the best they would do is issue a $200 credit for only service on check ups?! Brother refused it and should have. I wanted them to pay for the parts and my time N/C to brother but furthermore recall the impossible problem without throwing the stuff out as it couldn't be made to work with the orig engineering. This clearly is an item for recall! Do we have to wait for people to be hurt or killed for them to own up to this. Please complain to GM and lets get that recall going.

I took pictures before I fixed it. The dust shield was rusted out also which can be an issue for proper cooling and deflecting water. What gives? This is GM! Unacceptable! With today's technology they know by VIN which vehicles are involved right down to who was working that day.

Scary - but we trust them to make air bags and other safety items! Food for thought, Tom Greenleaf

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Tom Greenleaf

NickD on Tue December 07, 2004 9:21 AM User is offline

GM could never make a decent parking brake disk brake system, using an independent shoe or band brake is an idea used by Toyota back in the 80's. Least isolating the caliper from the parking brake leaves your service brakes operational and fairly inexpensive to replace, but the money is ate up in the rotor itself plus all those extra parts, so you still are screwed either way.

The integrated caliper types are a constant pain in the butt, very expensive to replace and a solid block of rust, I have taken many apart that was a chore, cleaned, greased, rebored the cylinder to get by cheaper, but they would rust up again and when they did, no service brakes in the rear.

I can't blame GM as all brakes are the same, cast iron parts that are subject to severe rust. If I go back to my military contract days, a 1,000 hour salt spray test that was considered stringent and even some surface rust was permissible, but not rust through, well, 1000 hours isn't very long, like less than six weeks. New brakes last longer than this is perhaps the standards the automotive people use is sufficient. As you are well aware, with a new vehicle warranty, brakes are not included.

I have to blame our cities as well with the excessive use of salt on our roads, their argument is that they don't have any place to put the snow, so better to salt 6" of fresh snow and let it flow off someplace. You can't argue with them that the salt is breaking up some very expensive roads, killing the grass in your lawn, and eating the crap up out of your vehicle. You also can't argue that studded snow tires were a much better idea, we did not have the brake problems back then that we have today.

All brakes on all vehicles rust solid not to mention exhaust systems, one solution is to move down south where they don't put tons of salt on the roads, so I can't just blame GM on this one.

Weather is no excuse in our society, you have to be at work or at school on time regardless of the road conditions, and if it means driving through six inches of salted slush to get there, that is what you have to do.

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