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Chevrolet Silverado 2018

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

0.24 per 1,000

0.7 times this nameplate’s own median · from 142 complaints filed in the first three years, of 590 ever. 95% lower bound 0.20.

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.

Power Train 181 complaints

transmission	125	69%
truck	74	41%
hard	38	21%
torque	29	16%
converter	28	16%
torque converter	26	15%

Engine 122 complaints

truck	46	38%
lifters	20	17%
lifter	11	9%
chevy	10	9%
purchase	10	9%

Electrical System 120 complaints

truck	43	36%
trailer	28	24%
trailer brake	25	21%
brake system	16	14%
service trailer	13	11%

When it breaks

46% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 35,000 miles, from 229 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

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:

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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.