Model years Chevrolet Silverado 1500
2025 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
This year drew an ordinary 84 complaints for a Chevrolet Silverado 1500 — the model's median is 781. What they were about is the unusual part: 10.7% of them mention department, against 2.7% 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 | 84 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 781 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
What the complaints were about
- department — 10.7% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the other years of this generation (3.9×). Owners wrote it as: department, hood, under hood, reported fire.
- mode — 9.5% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the other years of this generation (2.9×).
- shoulder — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: shoulder, belts.
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
Driving south on I95 under normal condition. After driving for about a hour truck started smoking under the hood. I pulled over and turned off vehicle. I released the latch to open hood. When I got out of the vehicle to lift the hood there were flames coming f…
The contact's daughter owned a 2025 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LD. The contact stated that his son was parked in a parking lot and starting the vehicle when the vehicle caught on fire. The contact stated that his son reported that the fire started under the hood…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
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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