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Chevrolet Silverado 2015

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.48 per 1,000

1.3 times this nameplate’s own median · from 271 complaints filed in the first three years, of 1420 ever. 95% lower bound 0.42.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.21	99
2009	0.13	52
2010	0.12	40
2011	0.17	68
2012	0.10	43
2013	0.17	77
2014	0.61	308
2015	0.48	271
2016	0.41	239
2017	0.42	246
2018	0.24	142
2019	0.64	371
2020	0.35	206
2021	0.37	206
2022	0.38	201
2023	0.52	280

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Service Brakes 429 complaints

vacuum	121	28%
vacuum pump	101	24%
brake vacuum	33	8%
trailer brakes	30	7%
brakes become	26	6%
warning message	25	6%

Electrical System 249 complaints

older trucks	21	8%
wet inclement	21	8%
truck hits	21	8%
sensitive trailering	21	8%
momentarily message	21	8%
loses momentarily	21	8%

Steering 196 complaints

truck	72	37%
low	34	18%
chevy	23	12%
low speed	16	8%
low speeds	16	8%
shuts	12	6%

When it breaks

26% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 51,000 miles, from 884 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

2 investigations covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 192 complaints about this component over roughly 44 months before an investigation opened.

Desiccated Air Bag Inflator Rupture

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

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Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.