Model years Chevrolet Silverado 1500
2020 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
This year drew an ordinary 696 complaints for a Chevrolet Silverado 1500 — the model's median is 781. What they were about is the unusual part: 11.1% of them mention esc, against 3.9% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, which began in 2019. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 696 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 781 |
| Involving a crash | 13 |
| Involving a fire | 9 |
| Recalls | 12 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
What the complaints were about
- esc — 11.1% of this year's complaints, against 3.9% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: esc, service esc, parking brake, esc service.
- torque — 7% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the other years of this generation (4.1×). Owners wrote it as: torque, converter, torque converter, vibration.
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
Locks will go up and down by themselves tranmission will downshift randomly broke down on highway service light service esc service parking brake and traction control vehicle only has 32,500 miles been complaining nothing getting done just want something else.
Vehicle Shudders between 35 to 60 mph consistent with torque converter / transmission issues.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V115000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 19V888000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 20V792000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V684000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 20V446000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V814000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V837000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 21V985000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 12. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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