Model years Chevrolet Silverado 1500
2018 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
This year drew an ordinary 510 complaints for a Chevrolet Silverado 1500 — the model's median is 781. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.4% of them mention shop, against 3.3% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Chevrolet Silverado 1500 ran from 2014 to 2018, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 510 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 781 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
What the complaints were about
- shop — 8.4% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the other years of this generation (2.6×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
2018 Chevy Silverado with 84,000 miles and the transmission is broken. Truck is currently in a shop to have a new transmission installed.
There was fuel in the engine oil. Had to replace all of the injectors and the high pressure fuel pump. The shop I had it done at said this is known issue on these trucks - why isnt something being done?
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V645000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 19V761000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 20V603000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 24V756000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 25V432000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 26V166000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 26V325000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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