Model years Chevrolet Silverado 2500
2015 Chevrolet Silverado 2500
This year drew an ordinary 257 complaints for a Chevrolet Silverado 2500 — the model's median is 115. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.4% of them mention enough, against 2.2% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 257 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 115 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 8 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 3/5 |
What the complaints were about
- enough — 7.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the model's other years (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: enough, dim, low beam, bright.
- key — 7.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: key, ignition, ignition key, occurrence.
- turns — 6.2% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: turns, hand, right hand, hand turns.
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
LOSE POWER STEERING WHEN MAKING RIGHT HAND TURNS AS VERY LOW SPEEDS. ISSUE HAS BEEN PERIODIC AND ON GOING.
MY 2015 SILVERADO 2500HD PICK UP'S POWER STEERING OCCASIONALLY STOPS WORKING ALL TOGETHER AT LOW SPEED RIGHT HAND TURNS. THE LATEST INCIDENT WAS LAST NIGHT AT 116390 MILES I WAS TURNING OFF THE MAIN ROAD INTO A GAS STATION AND I CAME VERY CLOSE TO HITTING A CA…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V578000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 16V651000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V437000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V069000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 21V504000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V736000 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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