Recall Register

1997 Chevrolet Silverado 3500: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1997 Chevrolet Silverado 3500. NHTSA has 61 complaints on file for this model year. 1 NHTSA investigation names 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 1997 Chevrolet Silverado 3500. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 61 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

61 complaints, 78 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.

  • 1997 Chevrolet Silverado 3500
  • All 1997 vehicles
1997 Chevrolet Silverado 3500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component1997 Silverado 3500All 1997 vehiclesSilverado 3500, all yearsMentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic384.6100.8145.730
Tires89.753.949.27
Engine and Engine Cooling76.9128.649.96
Steering76.969.960.96
Visibility76.955.8156
Power Train76.987.591.76
Fuel System, Gasoline64.149.420.55
Electrical System38.581.799.23
Unknown or Other38.521.444.53
Suspension25.664.124.62

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 14.

Complaints that report a crash
5
Complaints that report a fire
1
Injuries in the complaints
0
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
16 May 2014

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 1997 Chevrolet Silverado 3500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 14 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1997 Chevrolet Silverado 3500
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
PE97001Preliminary evaluationREAR AXLE SEPARATION FROM VEHICLEService Brakes, Hydraulic17 Jan 199729 May 1997

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. 1997 Chevrolet Silverado 3500: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/silverado-3500/1997/. 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 3500 have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 45 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Silverado 3500, model years 1994 to 2026. None of them names the 1997 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1997 Chevrolet Silverado 3500 name most often?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 30 of 78 component mentions, or 384.6 per 1,000. For all 1997 vehicles the figure is 100.8 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1997 Chevrolet Silverado 3500 open?
No. The 1 investigation that names this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.