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Chevrolet Silverado 4500

Every Chevrolet Silverado 4500 model year on file, 2019 to 2026. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years40 involved a crash, fire, injury or death
Model years82019 to 2026
Recall campaigns4Distinct campaigns listing it
Service bulletins3,336Summed across model years
By model year

The 2021 model year drew the most complaints, 2, 50% of the model's total

Owner complaints filed with NHTSA, all years filed, by model year.

00.511.52201920202021220222023202420252026
Source: NHTSA ODI. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA, and NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so counts are not rates.
Components

Brakes leads the Chevrolet Silverado 4500 complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Brakes
4
Engine and cooling
1
Powertrain
1
Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.
Model years

The record for each Chevrolet Silverado 4500 model year

Peer index compares complaints with the median vehicle of the same model year and body class (100 is the median). It corrects for age, not for how many were sold.

Chevrolet Silverado 4500 by model year
YearBodyComplaintsSeverity indexPeer indexRecallsInvestigationsBulletins
2026Not decoded0NoneNone0053
2025Not decoded0NoneNone0056
2024Not decoded0NoneNone20219
2023Truck10.010010425
2022Not decoded0NoneNone10497
2021Truck20.020010503
2020Other10.05020694
2019Not decoded0NoneNone30889
Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.
Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Chevrolet Silverado 4500

  • 25V-768 Nov 6, 2025
    These vehicles were remedied under NHTSA Recall 25V390 with a brake jumper wire harness that was assembled without protective tape
    Brakes · 891 vehicles
  • 25V-390 Jun 12, 2025
    Brake pressure sensor assembly may leak brake fluid into the brake pressure switch and cause a short circuit
    Brakes · 62k vehicles
  • 24V-738 Oct 2, 2024
    Air bag sensing and diagnostic module (SDM) may not have been activated during installation
    Airbags · 25 vehicles
  • 19V-328 Apr 25, 2019
    Engine block heater cord or the terminals that connect the heater cord to the block heater may short circuit and fail
    Engine and cooling · 318k vehicles
Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.