Recall Register

2004 Chevrolet Silverado 1500: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. NHTSA has 797 complaints on file for this model year.

This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.

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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 797 complaints for it.

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

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

Complaints by component

797 complaints, 951 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.

  • 2004 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
  • All 2004 vehicles
2004 Chevrolet Silverado 1500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2004 Silverado 1500All 2004 vehiclesSilverado 1500, all yearsMentions
Electrical System287.1129.3113.4273
Service Brakes240.828.6124.1229
Service Brakes, Hydraulic111.544.169106
Steering78.971.764.675
Air Bags35.878.9101.234
Power Train28.4113.4105.427
Engine and Engine Cooling27.360.720.226
Vehicle Speed Control2141.316.820
Engine18.936.911018
Structure15.873.339.315

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 27.

Complaints that report a crash
33
Complaints that report a fire
8
Injuries in the complaints
20
Deaths in the complaints
1
Date of the newest complaint
8 Jul 2025

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2008, with 108 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

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

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2004 Chevrolet Silverado 1500: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/silverado-1500/2004/. 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
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
General Motors, LLC

The NHTSA record is the authority. A complaint count is the number of different complaint numbers for the make, the model and the model year. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 55 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, model years 1994 to 2026. None of them names the 2004 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 name most often?
Electrical System: 273 of 951 component mentions, or 287.1 per 1,000. For all 2004 vehicles the figure is 129.3 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.