Recall Register

1998 Chevrolet Silverado: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1998 Chevrolet Silverado. NHTSA has 279 complaints on file for this model year. 2 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 1998 Chevrolet Silverado. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 279 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

279 complaints, 335 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.

  • 1998 Chevrolet Silverado
  • All 1998 vehicles
1998 Chevrolet Silverado: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component1998 SilveradoAll 1998 vehiclesSilverado, all yearsMentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic298.5106.9234100
Visibility134.356.161.645
Steering68.755.851.323
Electrical System65.782.569.822
Power Train50.790.474.917
Tires47.851.837.516
Engine and Engine Cooling47.8123.747.316
Seats38.816.422.413
Fuel System, Gasoline38.836.22213
Suspension32.882.63911

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 23.

Complaints that report a crash
16
Complaints that report a fire
5
Injuries in the complaints
12
Deaths in the complaints
2
Date of the newest complaint
7 Jul 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 1998 Chevrolet Silverado, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2000, with 40 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1998 Chevrolet Silverado
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
EA05007Engineering analysisTAILGATE SUPPORT CABLESLatches/Locks/Linkages / Tailgate / Latch14 Apr 200511 Apr 200606V066000
RQ04010Recall queryTAILGATE SUPPORT CABLE BREAKAGELatches/Locks/Linkages / Tailgate / Latch28 Sep 200414 Apr 2005

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.

  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

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1998 Chevrolet Silverado: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/silverado/1998/. 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 have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 46 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Silverado, model years 1980 to 2017. None of them names the 1998 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1998 Chevrolet Silverado name most often?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 100 of 335 component mentions, or 298.5 per 1,000. For all 1998 vehicles the figure is 106.9 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1998 Chevrolet Silverado open?
No. Each of the 2 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.