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2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500. NHTSA has 300 complaints on file for this model year. 3 NHTSA investigations name this model year.

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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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 300 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

300 complaints, 379 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.

  • 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500
  • All 2001 vehicles
2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2001 Silverado 2500All 2001 vehiclesSilverado 2500, all yearsMentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic226.985.2126.386
Engine and Engine Cooling168.9114.246.764
Service Brakes145.119.2132.955
Tires60.732.732.223
Electrical System60.798.6139.723
Engine5817.746.922
Power Train55.491.983.621
Steering44.941.65717
Structure23.769.632.69
Visibility21.135.115.18

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

Complaints that report a crash
11
Complaints that report a fire
3
Injuries in the complaints
5
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
30 Oct 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 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 35 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
EA06016Engineering analysisCRANK POSITION SENSOR FAILURE - STALLEngine and Engine Cooling / Engine14 Sep 20069 Nov 200707V521000
EA04012Engineering analysisHYDRAULIC PUMP FAILRESService Brakes, Hydraulic / Power Assist30 Apr 200428 Feb 200505V005000
PE04004Preliminary evaluationHYDRAULIC PUMP SHAFT FAILURESService Brakes, Hydraulic8 Jan 200430 Apr 2004

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. 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/silverado-2500/2001/. 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 CORP.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Chevrolet Silverado 2500 have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 44 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Silverado 2500, model years 1994 to 2026. None of them names the 2001 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 name most often?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 86 of 379 component mentions, or 226.9 per 1,000. For all 2001 vehicles the figure is 85.2 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 open?
No. Each of the 3 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.