NHTSA Safety Recalls
2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Recalls
The 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 has 11 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on July 1, 2021.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 11
- Owner complaints
- 1,110
- Crashes reported
- 58
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
14 fires
overall, 5 stars max
On a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
11 recalls on the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
Air bags: side/window: curtain: inflator
- Campaign
- 21V504000
- Reported
- July 1, 2021
- Vehicles affected
- up to 410,019
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2016 Silverado 1500, 5 other models
Seat belts: front
- Campaign
- 21V245000
- Reported
- April 8, 2021
- Vehicles affected
- up to 2,568
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury
- Same campaign
- also 2014, 2016 Silverado 1500, 2 other models
Air bags: side/window: curtain: inflator
- Campaign
- 20V736000
- Reported
- November 25, 2020
- Vehicles affected
- up to 9,279
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2016 Silverado 1500, 5 other models
Service brakes, hydraulic: antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip: wheel speed sensor/tone ring
- Campaign
- 19V761000
- Reported
- October 24, 2019
- Vehicles affected
- up to 652,967
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2014, 2016–2018 Silverado 1500, 3 other models
Service brakes, hydraulic: power assist: vacuum
- Campaign
- 19V645000
- Reported
- September 6, 2019
- Vehicles affected
- up to 3,456,719
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2014, 2016–2018 Silverado 1500, 4 other models
Steering: electric power assist system
- Campaign
- 18V586000
- Reported
- September 7, 2018
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,015,918
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 4 other models
Service brakes, hydraulic: pedals and linkages
- Campaign
- 18V578000
- Reported
- August 30, 2018
- Vehicles affected
- up to 42,280
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2016 Silverado 1500, 4 other models
Seat belts: front
- Campaign
- 18V291000
- Reported
- May 3, 2018
- Vehicles affected
- up to 23,004
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2016 Silverado 1500, 1 other model
Air bags: frontal
- Campaign
- 17V437000
- Reported
- July 10, 2017
- Vehicles affected
- up to 40,683
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2014, 2016–2017 Silverado 1500, 15 other models
Air bags: frontal
- Campaign
- 16V651000
- Reported
- September 8, 2016
- Vehicles affected
- up to 3,640,162
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2014, 2016–2017 Silverado 1500, 15 other models
Service brakes, hydraulic: pedals and linkages
- Campaign
- 16V069000
- Reported
- February 5, 2016
- Vehicles affected
- up to 430,771
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2016 Silverado 1500, 4 other models
2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 complaints by year
NHTSA has received 1,110 owner complaints about the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, the newest on October 8, 2026. Of these, 58 describe a crash (5%) and 14 a fire; owners reported 28 injuries and 1 death.
In complaints about the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, the component group named most often is the service brakes (32%), followed by the electrical system (15%) and the steering (15%).
1 of the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500's 11 recalls also concerns the steering.
Where 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 owners gave the mileage (679 complaints), the median was 55,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Service Brakes351
- Electrical System164
- Steering161
- Power Train138
- Engine132
- Unknown Or Other132
Complaints received, by year
| 2016 | 53 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 77 | |
| 2018 | 177 | |
| 2019 | 214 | |
| 2020 | 116 | |
| 2021 | 98 | |
| 2022 | 111 | |
| 2023 | 84 | |
| 2024 | 57 | |
| 2025 | 71 | |
| 2026 | 52 |
Complaints about the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 peaked in 2019, when NHTSA received 214. 28% arrived between 2014 and 2018, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2015 vehicles, the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 drew 2.3× the complaints of the median Chevrolet Silverado 1500 year in the same window: 5th highest of the 22 ranked years.
That makes 2015 one of the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 years to avoid by our method.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: ★★★★★
- Frontal: 5/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 4/5
The 1,110 complaints about the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Chevrolet Silverado 1500 by model year
Other 2015 Chevrolet models
Newest record on this page: October 8, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted