2003 Chevrolet Avalanche 1500 defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2003 Chevrolet Avalanche 1500. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Brake line corrosion failure
  Engineering Analysis EA11001 · opened Jan 5, 2011 · closed Apr 8, 2015

  On January 11, 2011, ODI opened EA11-001 to investigate allegations of premature brake line corrosion failure in model year (MY) 1999 through 2003 General Motors (GM) full-size pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles sold or registered in the following region of the United States that NHTSA has viewed as salt states f…