Model years Chevrolet Silverado 1500
2024 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
This year drew an ordinary 49 complaints for a Chevrolet Silverado 1500 — the model's median is 91. What they were about is the unusual part: 44.9% of them mention trailer, against 3% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 49 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 91 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- trailer — 44.9% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the model's other years (15.2×).
- brakes — 40.8% of this year's complaints, against 11.2% across the model's other years (3.6×).
- message — 32.7% of this year's complaints, against 10.9% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: message, case, connected, appears.
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
Recently purchased a 2024 Chevrolet Silverado Hd3500 and use it to haul a 40' 5th wheel toyhauler. Several instances when I connected the RV electrical cord to the truck I would see a "check trailer wiring" message. Along with this message I noticed there was…
while driving 30 MPH and attempting to depress the brake pedal, the message “Trailer Brakes Disabled” was displayed. A dealer was contacted. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, and the contact was informed the contact the vehicle was operating as designed, an…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V626000 TRAILER HITCHES Fixed free of charge.
- 25V274000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 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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