Model years Chevrolet Silverado 2500
2007 Chevrolet Silverado 2500
This year drew an ordinary 204 complaints for a Chevrolet Silverado 2500 — the model's median is 115. What they were about is the unusual part: 22.1% of them mention takata, against 1.8% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 204 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 115 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 9 |
| Recalls | 3 |
What the complaints were about
- takata — 22.1% of this year's complaints, against 1.8% across the model's other years (12.6×). Owners wrote it as: takata, takata recall, unable determine.
- line — 19.6% of this year's complaints, against 7.7% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: line, fluid, rusted, replaced manufacturer.
- airbag — 17.6% of this year's complaints, against 5.8% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: airbag, cracked, corner, cluster.
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
THE DASH RIGHT NEXT TO THE CORNER OF THE PASSENGER SIDE AIRBAG HAS CRACKED AND LOOKS LIKE IT COULD EFFECT THE OPERATION OF THE AIRBAG IN CASE OF DEPLOYMENT. THE CRACK BECAME WORSE AFTER HAVING THE AIRBAG INFLATOR REPLACED RECENTLY AS PART OF A DIFFERENT RECALL…
THERE WAS A RECALL ON THE PASSENGER SIDE AIRBAG INFLATOR. I RECEIVED A LETTER IN JULY 2015 NOTIFYING ME OF RECALL. PARTS WERE NOT AVAILABLE AT THE TIME. I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE. I SEARCHED THE RECALL ONLINE AND FOUND THE RECALL IS STI…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V011000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V407000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 15V324000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Silverado 2500 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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