Model years Chevrolet Silverado 2500
2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500
This year drew an ordinary 52 complaints for a Chevrolet Silverado 2500 — the model's median is 121. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.7% of them mention during failure, against 1.5% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 52 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 121 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
What the complaints were about
- during failure — 7.7% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the model's other years (5.2×). Owners wrote it as: during failure, cause failure.
- though — 7.7% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the model's other years (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: though, audio, visual, assured.
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
THERE IS NO PASSENGER SEAT BELT WARNING AUDIO OR VISUAL. THE DEALER SAID THAT THIS VEHICLE DOESN'T HAVE A SENSOR TO TELL IF SOMEONE IS IN THE SEAT OR NOT. BUT THEY "ASSURED" ME THAT THE PASSENGER AIR BAGS STILL WOULD WORK. EVEN THOUGH IT HAS BEEN SHOWN THAT AI…
VEHICLE INTERMITTENTLY WILL NOT START. DIC DISPLAYS SERVICE MESSAGES FOR POWER STEERING, STABILITRAK, AND TRAILERING. WILL NOT START USING THE KEY OR REMOTELY USING GM APP OR WITH KEY FOB. DEALER HAS ATTEMPTED TO FIX MULTIPLE TIMES AND CAN'T LOCATE THE PROBLEM…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V567000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V328000 ENGINE Fixed free of charge.
- 21V496000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 23V047000 FUEL SYSTEM, DIESEL Fixed free of charge.
- 24V756000 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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