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Chevrolet Silverado 2012

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

0.10 per 1,000

better than this nameplate’s own median · from 43 complaints filed in the first three years, of 357 ever. 95% lower bound 0.07.

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.

Unknown Or Other 87 complaints

cracked	33	38%
airbag	29	33%
dash cracked	16	19%
passenger airbag	13	15%

Air Bags 87 complaints

dash	22	26%
cracked	15	18%
truck	15	18%
crack	14	16%
recall notification	12	14%

Structure 54 complaints

cracked	20	37%
truck	19	35%
dash	14	26%
air	12	22%
airbag	11	21%
air bag	10	19%

When it breaks

22% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 58,123 miles, from 232 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

2 investigations covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign.

Pedestrian alert sounds

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:

10443762 · 10452358 · 10458219 · 10460912 · 10462796 · 10479648

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.