Recall Register

Chevrolet Silverado: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 46 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Silverado, model years 1980 to 2017. NHTSA has 8,666 complaints on file for this model line. 27 of the 35 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. 19800
  2. 19820
  3. 19840
  4. 19850
  5. 19870
  6. 19880
  7. 19890
  8. 19900
  9. 19910
  10. 19920
  11. 19930
  12. 19940
  13. 19950
  14. 19960
  15. 19970
  16. 19980
  17. 19995
  18. 20008
  19. 20014
  20. 20024
  21. 20036
  22. 20048
  23. 20058
  24. 20064
  25. 20071
  26. 20081
  27. 20090
  28. 20100
  29. 20112
  30. 20122
  31. 20133
  32. 201413
  33. 20157
  34. 20162
  35. 20170
Chevrolet Silverado: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2017 Chevrolet Silverado04317%
2016 Chevrolet Silverado231%229
2015 Chevrolet Silverado76125%1,740,815
2014 Chevrolet Silverado1312249%2,416,023
2013 Chevrolet Silverado36125%66,227
2012 Chevrolet Silverado26526%93,925
2011 Chevrolet Silverado27329%84,931
2010 Chevrolet Silverado06024%
2009 Chevrolet Silverado07229%
2008 Chevrolet Silverado115362%857,735
2007 Chevrolet Silverado118073%857,735
2006 Chevrolet Silverado418173%197,326
2005 Chevrolet Silverado8315127%1,701,149
2004 Chevrolet Silverado8621251%5,298,532
2003 Chevrolet Silverado6695281%5,181,998
2002 Chevrolet Silverado4710287%5,106,566
2001 Chevrolet Silverado4877354%5,118,145
2000 Chevrolet Silverado81,305527%7,929,610
1999 Chevrolet Silverado51,658670%3,641,617
1998 Chevrolet Silverado0279113%
1997 Chevrolet Silverado0272110%
1996 Chevrolet Silverado018575%
1995 Chevrolet Silverado0263106%
1994 Chevrolet Silverado021085%
1993 Chevrolet Silverado06928%
1992 Chevrolet Silverado04016%
1991 Chevrolet Silverado NHTSA page0177%
1990 Chevrolet Silverado02510%
1989 Chevrolet Silverado NHTSA page0229%
1988 Chevrolet Silverado NHTSA page0156%
1987 Chevrolet Silverado NHTSA page021%
1985 Chevrolet Silverado NHTSA page031%
1984 Chevrolet Silverado NHTSA page052%
1982 Chevrolet Silverado NHTSA page021%
1980 Chevrolet Silverado NHTSA page021%

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

10,770 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: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic237.12,554
Power Train73.4791
Electrical System70.1755
Service Brakes63.1680
Visibility62.2670
Steering51.1550
Engine and Engine Cooling47.9516
Structure46.6502
Air Bags42.2455
Suspension39.5425

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Silverado, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2014, with 11 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Silverado, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2005, with 1,297 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 177 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Silverado: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/silverado/. 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
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
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 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2014 with 13, 2005 with 8, 2004 with 8. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Silverado model year has the most complaints?
The 1999 model year, with 1,658 of the 8,666 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Silverado name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 237.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 73.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 70.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Silverado?
18 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.