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2005 Chevrolet Cavalier service brakes, hydraulic problems

13 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the service brakes, hydraulic on the 2005 Chevrolet Cavalier5% of all complaints for this model year.

13
Service Brakes, Hydraulic complaints
5%
share of all complaints
43,000 mi
median reported incident mileage
0 / 0
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • Rear shoes only 50% worn after 153,000. Hand brake starting grabbing uneven so had to have rear drums torched off. Drums would not remove through normal means. Condition of hardware was found to be reusable. Drums warped/failed before shoes wore out. *tr

    filed Oct 16, 2011

  • Horn contact behind airbag was recently crazy glued, to restore horn, and speedo & cluster requires replacement of entire cluster by chevy, or removal & rebuild of gauge stepper motors through ebay motors. Use froogle.com and enter"repair cavalier speedometer" to search. My speedo only on my…

    filed Aug 16, 2010

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.