Model years Chevrolet Silverado 2500
2009 Chevrolet Silverado 2500
This year drew an ordinary 137 complaints for a Chevrolet Silverado 2500 — the model's median is 115. What they were about is the unusual part: 13.9% of them mention cracked, against 0.3% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 137 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 115 |
| Involving a crash | 11 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 5 |
What the complaints were about
- cracked — 13.9% of this year's complaints, against 0.3% across the model's other years (49.4×). Owners wrote it as: cracked, dashboard cracked, bag deploys.
- bag — 16.1% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: bag, air bag, during crash, above passenger.
- deploy — 13.1% of this year's complaints, against 4.7% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: deploy, impact, injuries, front end.
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
WHILE DRIVING 55 MPH, HE FELL ASLEEP AND LOST CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE CRASHED INTO A CEMENT WALL AND THE FRONT DRIVER'S AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY. THE CONTACT SUFFERED HEAD INJURIES DURING THE CRASH. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. THE [VIN] INVESTIGATED TH…
THE CONTACT WAS OPERATING A 2009 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE COMPANY VEHICLE WAS STATIONARY WHEN A SECOND VEHICLE CRASHED INTO ITS REAR. AS A RESULT, THE CONTACT'S COMPANY VEHICLE CRASHED INTO THE REAR OF A THIRD VEHICLE. THE FRONT EN…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V053000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V050000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V052000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V267000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 14V407000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 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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