Model years Chevrolet Silverado 2500
2012 Chevrolet Silverado 2500
This year drew an ordinary 121 complaints for a Chevrolet Silverado 2500 — the model's median is 115. What they were about is the unusual part: 36.4% of them mention bag, against 14.3% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 121 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 115 |
| Involving a crash | 11 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 3/5 |
What the complaints were about
- bag — 36.4% of this year's complaints, against 14.3% across the model's other years (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: bag, air bag, deployment, cracks.
- dashboard — 9.1% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (4.7×). Owners wrote it as: dashboard, cause accident, others issue.
- comes — 7.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.8% across the model's other years (4.1×). Owners wrote it as: comes, light comes, very scary, off driver.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
WHILE DRIVING AT 40 MPH, THE AIR BAGS DEPLOYED INADVERTENTLY. THE CONTACT WAS INJURED DUE TO THE FORCE OF THE AIR BAG DEPLOYMENT AND REQUIRED MEDICAL ATTENTION. NO POLICE REPORT WAS FILED. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO A DEALER WHERE AN INVESTIGATION WAS OPENED BY…
DASH IS CRACKED ABOVE PASSENGER SIDE AIR BAG, POTENTIALLY CAUSING HIGH VELOCITY PROJECTILE HAZARD IN THE EVENT OF AN AIRBAG DEPLOYMENT.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V267000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 21V054000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V051000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Silverado 2500 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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