Model years Chevrolet Silverado 1500
2005 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
Complaints about this year name speedometer far more often than the model's other years — 19% of them, about 47× the usual rate of 0.4%.
| Complaints filed | 1,185 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 90 |
| Involving a crash | 49 |
| Involving a fire | 56 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 16.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- speedometer — 22.1% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the model's other years (7.4×). Owners wrote it as: speedometer, cluster, reading, instrument cluster.
- silverado 2500 — 6.7% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (33.3×).
- abs — 6.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.6% across the model's other years (4.2×). Owners wrote it as: abs, low speeds.
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.
Also unusual this year
- brake lines — 11% of complaints, 27× usual
- rusted — 9% of complaints, 21× usual
- brake line — 7% of complaints, 18× usual
What owners wrote
BACKED OUT OF DRIVEWAY BRAKE PEDAL WENT TO FLOOR.REPAIR SHOP SAID BRAKE LINES ALL RUSTED.
ALL BRAKE LINES RUSTED . BRAKE LINES LEAKING FLUID . LOW BRAKE FLUID. WAS DRIVING ON HIGHWAY HAD PAY LOAD400 POUNDS.
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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