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Chevrolet Silverado 2500: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 44 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Silverado 2500, model years 1994 to 2026. NHTSA has 3,991 complaints on file for this model line. 30 of the 33 model years have a page on this register.

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. 20001
  8. 20010
  9. 20021
  10. 20030
  11. 20040
  12. 20050
  13. 20060
  14. 20073
  15. 20084
  16. 20095
  17. 20105
  18. 20114
  19. 20123
  20. 20133
  21. 20142
  22. 20156
  23. 20166
  24. 20175
  25. 20185
  26. 20197
  27. 202010
  28. 20216
  29. 20223
  30. 20231
  31. 20244
  32. 20251
  33. 20262
Chevrolet Silverado 2500: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500287%9,269
2025 Chevrolet Silverado 250012924%8
2024 Chevrolet Silverado 25004140116%705,566
2023 Chevrolet Silverado 250014739%570,434
2022 Chevrolet Silverado 250039579%1,036,970
2021 Chevrolet Silverado 250068772%1,661,742
2020 Chevrolet Silverado 25001010889%2,218,477
2019 Chevrolet Silverado 250077461%689,379
2018 Chevrolet Silverado 250055344%718,635
2017 Chevrolet Silverado 250055445%4,356,736
2016 Chevrolet Silverado 25006123102%4,565,474
2015 Chevrolet Silverado 25006176146%4,573,194
2014 Chevrolet Silverado 250024033%1,784,282
2013 Chevrolet Silverado 250035142%2,476,808
2012 Chevrolet Silverado 250035344%2,068,927
2011 Chevrolet Silverado 2500410486%4,434,925
2010 Chevrolet Silverado 250052117%5,127,451
2009 Chevrolet Silverado 250056150%3,906,346
2008 Chevrolet Silverado 25004191158%340,537
2007 Chevrolet Silverado 25003204169%340,268
2006 Chevrolet Silverado 25000177146%
2005 Chevrolet Silverado 25000269222%
2004 Chevrolet Silverado 25000368304%
2003 Chevrolet Silverado 25000449371%
2002 Chevrolet Silverado 25001351290%38,863
2001 Chevrolet Silverado 25000300248%
2000 Chevrolet Silverado 25001132109%3,758
1999 Chevrolet Silverado 250008167%
1998 Chevrolet Silverado 250007360%
1997 Chevrolet Silverado 250006453%
1996 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 NHTSA page022%
1995 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 NHTSA page032%
1994 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 NHTSA page032%

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

5,034 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 2500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System139.7703
Service Brakes132.9669
Service Brakes, Hydraulic126.3636
Power Train83.6421
Air Bags72.9367
Steering57287
Engine46.9236
Engine and Engine Cooling46.7235
Unknown or Other44.1222
Structure32.6164

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Silverado 2500, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2021, with 9 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Silverado 2500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 280 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 178 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Silverado 2500: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/silverado-2500/. 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 CORP.

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 2500 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2020 with 10, 2019 with 7, 2021 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Silverado 2500 model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 449 of the 3,991 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Silverado 2500 name?
Electrical System: 139.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes: 132.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 126.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Silverado 2500?
9 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.