Model years Chevrolet Silverado 1500
2016 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
This year drew an ordinary 60 complaints for a Chevrolet Silverado 1500 — the model's median is 91. What they were about is the unusual part: 28.3% of them mention steering, against 8.2% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 60 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 91 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Recalls | 11 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- steering — 28.3% of this year's complaints, against 8.2% across the model's other years (3.5×).
- fuel — 20% of this year's complaints, against 5.2% across the model's other years (3.8×).
- new — 23.3% of this year's complaints, against 8.3% across the model's other years (2.8×).
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
SLOPPY LOOSE STEERING, SLACK ADJUSTER STUD LOOSENED 3/8 INCH, 3 TO 4 INCH STEERING PLAY. UNSAFE. LOCTITE FIX DOES NOT LAST. NEW RE-ENGINEERED GEAR BOX RECALL NEEDED.
NEW TRUCK HAD LOSE STEERING WHEN I TOOK DELIVERY, REQUIRING OVER CORRECTION. WITH JUST 4529 IN MILEAGE ON IT I TOOK IT BACK TO MY DEALER. WAS TOLD THEY ALREADY HAD MADE REPAIRS TO FOUR OTHER TRUCKS WITH THE SAME ISSUE. THEY REPLACED THE HYDRAULIC RECIRCULATING…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V578000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC 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.
- 16V256000 SUSPENSION 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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