NHTSA Safety Recalls
2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 Recalls
The 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 has 5 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on October 10, 2024.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 5
- Owner complaints
- 53
- Crashes reported
- 2
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
2 fires
overall, 5 stars max
On a 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
5 recalls on the 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500
Air bags: side/window: curtain: inflator
- Campaign
- 24V756000
- Reported
- October 10, 2024
- Vehicles affected
- up to 2,061
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2019 Silverado 2500, 5 other models
Fuel system, diesel: storage: tank assembly
- Campaign
- 23V047000
- Reported
- February 2, 2023
- Vehicles affected
- up to 22,132
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2017, 2019 Silverado 2500, 3 other models
Equipment: electrical: engine block heater
- Campaign
- 21V496000
- Reported
- July 1, 2021
- Vehicles affected
- up to 338,020
- Risk NHTSA names
- fire
- Same campaign
- also 2017, 2019 Silverado 2500, 3 other models
Engine
- Campaign
- 19V328000
- Reported
- April 25, 2019
- Vehicles affected
- up to 318,374
- Risk NHTSA names
- fire
- Same campaign
- also 2017, 2019 Silverado 2500, 3 other models
Seat belts: front: retractor
- Campaign
- 17V567000
- Reported
- September 14, 2017
- Vehicles affected
- up to 38,048
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Federal standard
- FMVSS 209, seat belt assemblies
- Same campaign
- also 2017 Silverado 2500, 3 other models
2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 complaints by year
NHTSA has received 53 owner complaints about the 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500, the newest on September 20, 2026. Of these, 2 describe a crash (4%) and 2 a fire; owners reported 3 injuries.
In complaints about the 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500, the component group named most often is the electrical system (25%), followed by the engine (23%) and the fuel/propulsion system (17%).
1 of the 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500's 5 recalls also concerns the engine.
Where 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 owners gave the mileage (24 complaints), the median was 23,277 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Electrical System13
- Engine12
- Fuel/Propulsion System9
- Air Bags6
- Power Train6
- Unknown Or Other6
Complaints received, by year
| 2018 | 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 10 | |
| 2020 | 7 | |
| 2021 | 3 | |
| 2022 | 7 | |
| 2023 | 2 | |
| 2024 | 9 | |
| 2025 | 7 | |
| 2026 | 6 |
Complaints about the 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 peaked in 2019, when NHTSA received 10. 42% arrived between 2017 and 2021, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2018 vehicles, the 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 drew 0.6× the complaints of the median Chevrolet Silverado 2500 year in the same window: 16th highest of the 21 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: ★★★★☆
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 3/5
The 53 complaints about the 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Chevrolet Silverado 2500 by model year
Other 2018 Chevrolet models
Newest record on this page: September 20, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted