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Chevrolet Silverado 1500: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 55 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, model years 1994 to 2026. NHTSA has 17,998 complaints on file for this model line. 30 of the 33 model years have a page on this register.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19940
  2. 19950
  3. 19960
  4. 19970
  5. 19980
  6. 19990
  7. 20000
  8. 20010
  9. 20020
  10. 20030
  11. 20040
  12. 20050
  13. 20060
  14. 20072
  15. 20083
  16. 20093
  17. 20103
  18. 20114
  19. 20122
  20. 20132
  21. 20146
  22. 201511
  23. 201612
  24. 20177
  25. 20187
  26. 201910
  27. 202012
  28. 20218
  29. 20226
  30. 20233
  31. 20242
  32. 20250
  33. 20263
Chevrolet Silverado 1500: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Chevrolet Silverado 1500310319%9,335
2025 Chevrolet Silverado 1500010219%
2024 Chevrolet Silverado 1500231157%597,609
2023 Chevrolet Silverado 1500338470%1,787,350
2022 Chevrolet Silverado 15006633116%1,802,276
2021 Chevrolet Silverado 15008829152%1,694,761
2020 Chevrolet Silverado 150012732134%2,058,981
2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500101,085199%2,178,592
2018 Chevrolet Silverado 1500752095%4,135,159
2017 Chevrolet Silverado 15007712131%7,825,475
2016 Chevrolet Silverado 150012794146%8,713,749
2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500111,107203%9,724,370
2014 Chevrolet Silverado 150061,436263%8,483,784
2013 Chevrolet Silverado 1500230155%2,470,654
2012 Chevrolet Silverado 1500221640%2,062,773
2011 Chevrolet Silverado 15004563103%4,451,228
2010 Chevrolet Silverado 1500336367%5,111,926
2009 Chevrolet Silverado 1500344481%3,890,821
2008 Chevrolet Silverado 15003914168%3,198,309
2007 Chevrolet Silverado 15002849156%3,198,295
2006 Chevrolet Silverado 1500035966%
2005 Chevrolet Silverado 1500052596%
2004 Chevrolet Silverado 15000797146%
2003 Chevrolet Silverado 15000805148%
2002 Chevrolet Silverado 1500050993%
2001 Chevrolet Silverado 1500046886%
2000 Chevrolet Silverado 15000614113%
1999 Chevrolet Silverado 15000587108%
1998 Chevrolet Silverado 1500036166%
1997 Chevrolet Silverado 15000555102%
1996 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 NHTSA page071%
1995 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 NHTSA page031%
1994 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 NHTSA page0102%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

23,810 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Chevrolet Silverado 1500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes124.12,956
Electrical System113.42,700
Engine1102,618
Power Train105.42,510
Air Bags101.22,410
Service Brakes, Hydraulic691,644
Unknown or Other65.71,564
Steering64.61,537
Structure39.3935
Suspension22.3531

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2021, with 11 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2025, with 1,865 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 178 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Silverado 1500: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/silverado-1500/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
General Motors, LLC

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Chevrolet Silverado 1500 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2020 with 12, 2016 with 12, 2015 with 11. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Silverado 1500 model year has the most complaints?
The 2014 model year, with 1,436 of the 17,998 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 name?
Service Brakes: 124.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 113.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 110 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Silverado 1500?
13 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.