Model years Chevrolet Silverado 1500
2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
This year drew an ordinary 134 complaints for a Chevrolet Silverado 1500 — the model's median is 90. What they were about is the unusual part: 12.7% of them mention difficult, against 4.7% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 134 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 90 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Involving a fire | 5 |
| Recalls | 11 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- difficult — 12.7% of this year's complaints, against 4.7% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: difficult, night, view, camper side.
- enough — 10.4% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: enough, straight, time incident, easily.
- high — 10.4% of this year's complaints, against 3.5% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: high, visibility, beam, difficult see.
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
SILVERADO 3500 HD TRUCK IS EQUIPPED WITH TOWING/CAMPER SIDE VIEW MIRRORS EQUIPPED WITH RED TURN SIGNALS EMBEDDED IN MIRROR GLASS. RED TURN SIGNAL LED'S IMPAIR VISION AT NIGHT, AND SHINE DIRECTLY INTO DRIVERS EYES, MAKING IT EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO SEE OUTSIDE V…
TRAILER TOW MIRRORS DO NOT EXTEND FAR ENOUGH TO SEE REAR OF TRUCK 8 FT WIDE RACK BODY. SPOT FLOOD LIGHTS SHINE OFF BODY BLINDING DRIVERS VISION BECAUSE MIRRIORS DO NOT EXTEND FAR ENOUGH. MY 2013 GMC 3500 SIERRA DUMP TRUCK MIRRIORS EXTEND 2 INCHES FURTHER THEN…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V578000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 18V586000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 18V291000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V645000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 19V761000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 16V651000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V069000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 17V437000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 11. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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