Model years Chevrolet Silverado 2500
2016 Chevrolet Silverado 2500
This year drew an ordinary 127 complaints for a Chevrolet Silverado 2500 — the model's median is 115. What they were about is the unusual part: 36.2% of them mention steering, against 8.2% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 127 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 115 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
What the complaints were about
- steering — 36.2% of this year's complaints, against 8.2% across the model's other years (4.4×).
- inches — 42.5% of this year's complaints, against 16.5% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: inches, became, driving down, between.
- wheel — 27.6% of this year's complaints, against 8.2% across the model's other years (3.3×).
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
EXCESSIVE STEERING WHEEL PLAY OR (LASH). WHILE DRIVING DOWN THE HIGHWAY, I CAN TURN THE STEERING WHEEL 3 INCHES PAST CENTER TO EITHER THE LEFT OR RIGHT AND THE TRUCK HAS NO RESPONSE. THIS IS EXTREMELY STRESSFUL BECAUSE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAINTAIN YOUR LANE BE…
LOOSE STEERING, OR JUST SLOPPY STEERING. SEVERAL INCHES EACH DIRECTION WITH THE STEERING WHEEL TO KEEP THE TRUCK GOING STRAIGHT DOWN THE ROAD. LIKE DRIVING A FIFTIES MODEL CAR. MY 2012 MODEL THE STEERING WOULD COMPLETELY GO OUT, THIS ONE KEEPS GETTING LOOSE. S…
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.
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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