The contact owns a 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe. While driving 25 mph, the steering wheel became difficult to turn and the precaution hydraulic system warning indicator illuminated on the instrument panel. The contact was able to park the vehicle in a parking lot. The vehicle was taken to autonation Chevrolet doral (located at 1201 nw 89th ct, suite a, miami, fl 33172, (786) 221-5786) where the failure was associated with NHTSA campaign number: 18V578000 (service brakes, hydraulic). The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified. The failure mileage was 36,696.

- Miami, FL, USA

When braking at 1 to 5 mph, brake pedal becomes hard to press. It feels like the ABS system is being activated.

- Middletown, NJ, USA

Vacuum pump failed on freeway at low speed. Chevrolet has acknowledged there is a problem but only offers replacement for under 70,000 miles. I am at 80,000 miles and had to pay $800 on my vacation trip.

- Hollister, CA, USA

While backing up the vehicle into a parking lot noticed the breaks where not properly functioning and took a lot of effort and pumping to stop, continued to notice a great effort and distance to stop and breaks not properly functioning due to a faulty break pump provided by manufacturer's error that could potentially cause complete lost of breaks. Took the vehicle for a diagnosis and had to replace the break pump for $526.

- Reedley, CA, USA

Computer message coming back as having a problem with the vacuum pump for the brakes. Very common and known problem the Chevy has not pair.

- Windham, NH, USA

During slow movement, such as approaching a stop sign in traffic, the brake pedal will get hard and there will be no brakes. This has only occured during slow movement so far, but I'm now concerned that it could happen at highway speed. The dealer offered a repair for $691 but this is a manufactureres defect that should be under recall.

- Manchester, GA, USA

I want start by saying I am a us veteran and 911 first responder, I have a Chevy Tahoe ltz 2015 I was going down a hill in yonkers, New York went my brakes gave out I pumped for three times until used my emergency brake pedal which I am not supposed to use at all its fairly new Tahoe ltz 2015, the GM sent me a letter no recall I think its serious enough for a recall please recall this Tahoe ltz for vaccum brakes this a very serious matter with this Tahoe ltz 2015 the GM knows about the problem its serious ok. I sent my Tahoe ltz 2015 on Friday back to dealership in new rochelle Chevrolet in a flatbed tow truck I would not drive it with a vacuum system problem brakes. They are saying if my mileage is above 80,000 that I have too pay to get it repaired I said no way its manufacture problem they need too fix it. Please get in touch with (xxxx) or GM at 1-800-222-1020 they don't want fix unless I pay ok I will get the media involved if they don't fix this problem with these vacuum system /brakes. Thank you for your help. Us veteran, 911 first responder parts of this document have been redacted to protect personally identifiable information pursuant to the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6).

- Yonkers, NY, USA

The contact owns a 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe. The contact stated that the brakes failed while pulling into a parking lot. The vehicle would not stop and the brake pedal nearly went to the floorboard before the vehicle finally stopped. The brake warning indicator was illuminated. The contact called neilson Chevrolet (1 us-46, dover, NJ 07801, (973) 366-1243) and was informed that diagnostic testing was needed. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired; however, the dealer stated that a brake vacuum was needed. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and did not assist. The failure mileage was 81,000.

- Mendham, NJ, USA

Brakes failed because of faulty vacuum pump. Pulling a trailer at the time, lucky to be alive. Please do something about this before more are injured or killed.

- Santa Maria, CA, USA

Truck will barely stop at low speeds. Replaced booster and still having issues. I was backing into a parking spot and almost hit a wall.

- Senatobia, MS, USA

The contact owns a 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe. While driving 10 mph and pulling a camper, the brakes failed to stop the vehicle when the brake pedal was depressed. The contact had to place both feet on the brake pedal and also applied the camper brake. The vehicle finally stopped after applying extreme pressure to the vehicle and camper brakes. In addition, the service brake assist warning indicator illuminated. The contact visited Colorado springs Chevrolet (670 automotive dr, Colorado springs, co 80905, (719) 387-1072) where it was diagnosed that a new vacuum pump was needed. The contact bought the pump and installed it themselves. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 98,000. The VIN was unknown.

- Woodland Park, CO, USA

While going at slow speeds, the brake pedal becomes stiff and locks up resulting in the brakes not working at all. This has caused me to almost hit multiple people in heavy traffic, parking lots, and drive through restaurant lines as well as almost causing me to roll through red lights into oncoming traffic. This has happened randomly over the past year (2018) and has recently became more common.

- Brookhaven, MS, USA

I initially noticed difficulty with braking while backing out of a parking space at a very low rate of speed. The brake pedal became hard and the vehicle continued to roll backward, with full weight on the brake pedal. Approximately one month later I was in bumper-to-bumper, stop-and-go traffic and the brake pedal again hard and the vehicle continued to roll forward. This issue did not occur during normal driving conditions, only at low rates of speed and with frequent, repetive stopping. I took the vehicle to a local Chevrolet service department and they were unable to replicate the issue or identify the problem with diagnostic equipment. I was told by the service manager the problem was likely due to 'over use' of the brakes and the brake is designed to be 'pumped' rather than compressed for more than a few seconds. I took the vehehicle to a second Chevrolet dealership. The service department replaced the brake booster vacuum pump and this seems have resolved the issue. I was unable to drive my vehicle for approximately 2 months due to fear the brakes would fail. The vehicle has 54,000 miles and was purchased new from a dealership.

- Mount Pleasant, TX, USA

Having issues with braking. Occasionally at high speeds, but more often during lower speeds. The brake pedal becomes very hard to depress and meanwhile the vehicle is still moving, not allowing you to stop. Happens also going in reverse. Had a collision, hit the rear end of another vehicle yesterday morning during rush hour, 3/18/2019. I was slowing down to 15 mph, due to a red light, but brake pedal would not brake, becoming very stiff, making it impossible to brake, and stopped due to the collision. Luckily no one was hurt. Front body severe damage to my Tahoe. Police report has been filed. We bought this Tahoe in fall of 2017, and February 2017, took into the dealership due to the braking issues, nothing was found or done to the brake system. Tahoe is back at dealership as of today, and nothing has been found, according to Chevy techs

- Hailey, ID, USA

Brakes failed while backing out of driveway. Brakes were hard and would not stop vehicle. Chevrolet's service bulletin indicated the vacuum pump failure will cause the master cylinder and another line to be considered "contaminated" causing them to need to be replaced. Clearly upon further investigation this is a wide spread problem.

- Springfield, VA, USA

The 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe has hard brake pedals when moving in low speeds. The need for increased effort to depress the brake pedal has high occurrences in stop-and-go traffic and high occurrences of failures at lower speeds. Numerous attempts at the GMC service department in dallas, ga failed to report issues with the breaks. After researching this issue on the internet, there are numerous lawsuits regarding this issue and GM issued a series of service bulletins regarding the break problems. According to the service bulletins, fluid may be found in the brake booster and/or the booster vacuum line during a normal diagnostic.

- Dallas, GA, USA

The vehicle lost braking ability at low speed. It first occurred while in a parking lot and the pedal was stiff and could not be pushed in to stop the vehicle. It is believed that this is a result of a faulty vacuum pump after a web search has turned up that this situation is happening quite frequently to other owners and there is also a class action suite filed in the state of California for this very same problem. This is very dangerous and there needs to be a recall before someone is seriously hurt or killed.

- Independence, KY, USA

At low speeds brakes fail. When you press brakes the car will not stop. I have to put both my feet on the brake pedal to stop.

- Douglasville, GA, USA

When traveling slow, like pulling into garage, brakes will occassionally lose power making it nearly impossible to stop the vehicle. Have almost backed into a car because brakes would not work. Have seen on here that there are multiple complaints about this issue, so I wanted to confirm that it is happening with our Tahoe as well. Also occasionally will not engage when you have to slam the brakes. Seems a very dangerous issue. Has happened a few times in the past, but most recently on 03/06/19 while pulling it into the garage.

- Monroe, LA, USA

Brake vacuum pump failure, every so often I am unable to break and it becomes very hard to step on the breaks. I have take I to the mechanic and they are charging me $1100 to get it fixed!!!

- San Jose, CA, USA