Model years Chevrolet Silverado 1500
2021 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
This year drew an ordinary 781 complaints for a Chevrolet Silverado 1500 — the model's median is 719. What they were about is the unusual part: 10.1% of them mention lifter, against 2.8% 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 | 781 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 719 |
| Involving a crash | 19 |
| Involving a fire | 11 |
| Recalls | 8 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
What the complaints were about
- lifter — 10.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the other years of this generation (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: lifter, lifter failure, engine lifter.
- cylinder — 8.8% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the other years of this generation (3×). Owners wrote it as: cylinder, misfire.
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
6.2L L87 V8 engine experienced catastrophic engine failure do to lifter failure and a cylinder 8 misfire. Causing additional damage to camshaft. The dealership has inspected the vehicle and refuses to acknowledge the problem as there own. I have invoices for t…
Engine lifters failed at 36000 miles, causing the vehicle to misfire. Engine lifters failed a second time at 42000 miles after being repaired, again causing the engine to misfire.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V792000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V811000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V684000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 21V495000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V985000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 24V797000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 25V274000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 26V083000 POWER TRAIN 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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