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Chevrolet Silverado 2017

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

0.42 per 1,000

1.2 times this nameplate’s own median · from 246 complaints filed in the first three years, of 904 ever. 95% lower bound 0.37.

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.

Power Train 235 complaints

truck	82	35%
hard	45	19%
converter	37	16%
torque	36	15%
torque converter	34	14%
chevy	29	12%

Service Brakes 227 complaints

trailer	42	19%
vacuum	37	16%
low speeds	31	14%
vacuum pump	27	12%
brake assist	26	12%
low speed	25	11%

Electrical System 149 complaints

trailer	37	25%
trailer brake	24	16%
service trailer	17	12%
rear window	15	10%
stabilitrak	13	9%
brake system	13	9%

When it breaks

40% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 39,990 miles, from 447 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

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:

10929764 · 10944587 · 10953774 · 10968591 · 10970796 · 10971977

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.