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Model years to avoid

Chevrolet Silverado 1500

What it says about you

Opinion

There is a correct answer to what you tow and how often, and yours may be honest or may be aspirational. Either way the bed has held something enormous at least once and you tell that story well.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

22 model years on record, 6,209 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2019 (camera), 2008 (takata recall), 2007 (takata recall), 2006 (brake lines), 2005 (speedometer). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • takata 2007, 2008, 2011 peak 33.7% of that year's complaints
  • airbag 2007, 2008 peak 19% of that year's complaints
  • bag 2007, 2011 peak 15.4% of that year's complaints
  • camera 2015, 2019 peak 14.9% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 3 recalls 2 complaints
  2. 2025 0 recalls 12 complaints
  3. 2024 2 recalls 49 complaints
  4. 2023 3 recalls 19 complaints
  5. 2022 6 recalls 27 complaints
  6. 2021 8 recalls 42 complaints
  7. 2020 12 recalls 29 complaints
  8. 2019 camera 845 complaints
  9. 2018 7 recalls 24 complaints
  10. 2017 6 recalls 139 complaints
  11. 2016 11 recalls 60 complaints
  12. 2015 11 recalls 134 complaints
  13. 2014 6 recalls 134 complaints
  14. 2013 2 recalls 90 complaints
  15. 2012 2 recalls 91 complaints
  16. 2011 4 recalls 104 complaints
  17. 2010 3 recalls 192 complaints
  18. 2009 3 recalls 86 complaints
  19. 2008 takata recall 1,076 complaints
  20. 2007 takata recall 1,095 complaints
  21. 2006 brake lines 774 complaints
  22. 2005 speedometer 1,185 complaints

What does a Chevrolet Silverado 1500 say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.