Recall Register

2005 Chevrolet Silverado 1500: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2005 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. NHTSA has 525 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 2005 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 525 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

525 complaints, 643 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.

  • 2005 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
  • All 2005 vehicles
2005 Chevrolet Silverado 1500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2005 Silverado 1500All 2005 vehiclesSilverado 1500, all yearsMentions
Electrical System297121.9113.4191
Service Brakes127.524.8124.182
Service Brakes, Hydraulic80.931.36952
Air Bags79.386.7101.251
Steering74.775.364.648
Power Train57.5115.1105.437
Suspension32.743.522.321
Engine and Engine Cooling29.554.920.219
Visibility2821.912.918
Engine2844.511018

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 29.

Complaints that report a crash
20
Complaints that report a fire
34
Injuries in the complaints
14
Deaths in the complaints
2
Date of the newest complaint
2 Jun 2026

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 2005 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2008, with 83 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. 2005 Chevrolet Silverado 1500: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/silverado-1500/2005/. 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 2005 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2005 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 name most often?
Electrical System: 191 of 643 component mentions, or 297 per 1,000. For all 2005 vehicles the figure is 121.9 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2005 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.