Model years Chevrolet Silverado 1500
2017 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
This year drew an ordinary 139 complaints for a Chevrolet Silverado 1500 — the model's median is 90. What they were about is the unusual part: 18% of them mention gear, against 6.5% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 139 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 90 |
| Involving a crash | 13 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- gear — 18% of this year's complaints, against 6.5% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: gear, feels, feels like, gears.
- located — 7.2% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the model's other years (5.1×). Owners wrote it as: located, chevrolet located, ave.
- wheels — 7.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: wheels, driveshaft, appear, chips.
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
8 SPEED TRANSMISSION CLUNKS WHEN SHIFTING INTO 2 GEAR AND AT TIMES FEELS LIKE YOU GOT REAR ENDED. WHEN IT DOWN SHIFTS INTO THE LOWER GEARS IT'S ALSO CLUNKS AND IS NOT SMOOTH. THIS IS HAPPENING WHEN GOING AT SLOW SPEEDS AND IS WORSE AFTER A COLD START . THE VEH…
TRANSMISSION IS FAULTY, HAS BEEN TO THE DEALER WHERE I PURCHASED SEVERAL TIMES, THEY FLUSHED THE TRANS 2 OR 3 TIMES THEN FINALLY REBUILT THE TRANSMISSION WITH AROUND 60,000 MILES. NOW I'M AT 70,000 MILES AND HAVING TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS AGAIN. IT SURGES BETWEE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V645000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 19V761000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 16V651000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V487000 CHILD SEAT Fixed free of charge.
- 16V256000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 17V437000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
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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